Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-28

Las Vegas Che Chief City
Of New Mexico
Of Her Resources,
Attractions and
Advantages.

- vraAs ia the natural sAnatorium OF
the United States, combining more nav
ural advantages than any other place ~
Amsr,ca. Her thermal waters are the
equal OF the Hot Springs OF A'Kansas
while ner climate is infinitely superior
There IA no malaria. no excessive neat OF
| cold, no gnats, rats or Lay
ar - pure. dry, rarifed, and highly cleo
! tr,aad-ac certain cure for consumption u
| the disease be taken In time. Inc NOV
/ waters are a specific for liver, skin' rneu-
matte and blood disorders. Her Montezu-
ma hotel is the finest hostelry between
Chicago and California, and Is situated IN
. beaut,ful canyon, five miles from town,
where the Hot Springs, forty 10 number
come boiling to the surface
The latitude Is about the same a. that OF
central Tennessee. while the altitude ~
,ssrlv $500 feet. This combination gives
peculiar, but most happy, result. In the
winter, during the day, the nermome1er
seldom falls. In the shade. below forty de-
. orees. while it often runs, in the sunshine
n s,xtv-aye degrees-or even more. on
, The other hand, In the summer, the neat u
never oppressive, IN the SHADE, a ~
night is too warm TOT comiorsap,o s'.sR P
shine nine days out Of every ten, the year
romnd. This, with the extreme dryness o.
7 the Air. caused by the very slight precipi'
n ~tstion Of moisture; the resinous aroma
. rolling down from the pine-clau noun
tains; the large amount OF eiectricl.y !,
| the air. and the consequent ozone, result
4 inc from thealtitude; and the location OF 20
' town. land-locked by mountain and mes
! Nthase ali conspire to produce an atmos
,,hara which Is d balm TO all diseases OF Tn
rssniretory organs. The percentage Q
death from consumption 70 lower IN rss
Ie Mexico than 1t is anywhere eise ~ -
N United States; and no other place 10 Ne'
" Msrico exceIs Las Vegas In the saiuDrit
~ its climate. Asthmatlcs experienc
limmediate and permanent RELIEF, In tn
/, altitude. =,
y sorts. Las Vegas Is unriyaled. In q radit
Of twenty miles, In romantic mountai
ne clans and beside babbliug mountain brook
are the Las Vegas Hot Springs. Harvey
70 nj Porvenir. Sandoval's Mineral Hill, n
sr marc Ranch, Blake's, Sparks, Sapeii
* Rociada, and other places, too nanero
10 mention where health can be recovere'
ID and life becomes a pleasure 70 tne ennuy
:" tha invalid. the over-worked business ma
tie LAS VEGAS has two daily and dive week
a napers. three banks, two building and los
ii. essociations, three hotels. many boardiI
houses, nine churches, . number OF ciun
and ali the leading civic and social soci
tiss: a roller -four mill, capacity, nifty "a
es, rels per day; two Woodworking estaolisl
in ments. cleaning 10000 o pounds OF VIC
Sc. annually; a we'll equipped brewery a.
sx bottling establishment; a mandatory
mineral and c~arbonsted waters; two wa
I on and carriage factories; a saddle a.
harness factory; a foundiy; eis
lite trio light plant, three planning mil
m. and other enterprises Of less Importance
/, There are eight large wholesale nous
y" whose trade extends throughout the ~
ritory. and into the adjoining sectioi
while the volume Of this trade. and
value Of the stocks which they carry, 9
not be duplicated west of Kansas City z
rs, south Of Denver. Three merchants' brt
res ers have selected the city as their distr
ale utiug center, the amount OF their yea
sales exceeding, in the aggregate, the 60
bined sales Of all other such brokers
- New Mexico. The retail merchants,
10y Las Vegas, are more numerous, ana ca
ay, larger and better stocks Of goods than
ard the retail merchants OF any other FOWL
shis Territory or Arizona.