Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-05-11
THIS LOCALITY
Las Vegas the Chief City
of New Mexico Some
of Her Resources,
Attractions and
Advantages.

LAS VEGAS ID the natural sanatorium OF
the United Statos, combining more nat
ural advantages than any other place In
America. Her thermal waters are the
equal Of the Hot Springs OF Arkansas,
while her climate 10 Infinitely superior.
There is no malaria. NO excessive heat or
cold, no gnats, rats or mosquitoes. The
air Is pure, dry, %rariaed, and highly cleo
trified-a certain cure for consumption, II
the disease be taken 10 time. The hot
waters are A specific for liver. skin, rheu-
matte and blood disorders. Her Montexu-
ma hotel II the finest hosiery between
Chicago and California, aud Is situated Ia
where the Hot Springs, forty in number,
come boiling to the surface.
The latitude 10 about the same as that OF
central Tennessee, while the altitude Is
nearly $500 feet. This combinatlon gives
a peculiar, but most happy, result. In the
seldom falls, In the shade, below forty de-
grees, while It often runs, In the sunshine,
TO ~sixty-hve degrees-or even more. On
the other hand, In the summer, the heat IL
never oppressive, IN the shade, and no
night Is too warm for comfortable sleep.
under one or two blankets. The sun wifi
shine nine days out Of avery ten, the year
round. This. with the evtreme dryness Of
the cir, caused by tbs very slight precipi-
tatiOn OF moisture; the ~resinous aroma.
rolling down from the pine clad noun,
tainsi the large amount of electricity Ia
the air, and the consequent OZONE, result
Ing from thealtitude; and the location of the
these all conspire to produce an atmos-
piers which 10 q balm to ell diseases of the
respiratory organs. The percentage Of
death from consumption 10 lower In New
Mexico than II Is anywhere else in the
United States; n no other place In New
Mexico excels Las Vegas In the salubrlty
OF it's climate. Asthmatics experience |
Immediate q permanent relief, In this |
altitude.
In the way OF health and pleasure re-
sorts, Las Vegas IL unrivaled. In a radius |
OF twenty miles, IN romantic mouptain
glens and beside babbling mountain brooks.
are the Las Vegas Hot Springs, Harvey's,
El Porvenir, Sandoval's Mineral Hill, Ro-
nero Ranch, Blake's, Sparks, Bapello,
Rpcisda, and other places, too Numerous
70 mentipn, where health can be recovered,
and life becomes q pleasurs to the ennuye.
the invalid, the over-Worked business man.
LAS VEGAS has two daily and iye weekly
papers, three banks, two building and loen
associations, thres, hotsls. psny boarding
and all the Leading civic aud social socie-
ties; q roller 1our mill, capacity. fifty bar
per day two w~ool.seourjug establish
manfs,. cleaning 1900 900 pounds Of wool
annually; . we'll equipped brewery and
establishments; Q mandatory OF
mineral and ca~rbonated waters; two wae-
and carriage factories; a saddle and
harness factory; foundry; cleo 4
RIG light plant, three planning mile.
and ether enterprises Of less'importance.
There are eight large wholesale houses,
whose trade extends throughout the Ter /,
'itoryt and into the adjoining sections !
While the volume OF this trade. and the |
'alue of the stocks which they carry, can
lot be duplicated west Of Kansas City and
outh of Denver. Three merchants brok-
rs have selected the city az their distrib- a
ting %ceuter, the amount Of their yearly !
ales exceeding, in the aggregate, the COM d
sales Of ell other such brokers In G
lew Mexico, The retail merchants, OF :
Ias Vegas, are more numerous, and carry
lrger and better STOCKS Of goods than do
be retail merchants Of any other town in {
Territory or Arizona, "