Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-04-27
THIS LOCALITY
Las Vegas the Chief City
of New Mcxico--SOme
of Her Resources,
Attractions and
Advantages.

LAS VEGAS Is the natural sanatorium O
the United States, combining more nat
ural advantages than any other place ii
America. Her thermal waters are the
equal OF the Hot Springs of Arkansas
while her climate Is Infinitely superior,
There is no malaria, no excessive heat or
cold, no gnats, rats or mosquitoes. The
air is pure, dry, rarified, and highly elec-
trineu--a certain cure for consumption. II
the disease be taken In time. The hot
waters are specific for liver. skin, rheu-
matte and blood disorders. Her Montezn-
ma hotel is the finest hosiery between
chicago and California. and is situated Ia
beautiful canyon, five miles from town.
where the Hot Springs, forty Ia 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 combination gives
peculiar, but most happy, result. In the
winter, during the day, the thermometer
seldom falls, in the shade, below forty de-
grees, while II often runs, in tho sunshine.
70 sixty-fi degrees-or even more. On
the other hand, In the summer, the heat ia
never oppressive, In the shade, and no
night is too warm for comfortable sleep.
under one or two blankets. The sun will
shine nine days out OF every ten, the year
round. This. with the extreme drypess OF
he air, cansed by the very slight precipi-
tstion Of moisture; the resinous aroma. !.
rolling down from the pine-clad noun.
tains; the large amount OF electricity In
the air, and the consequent ozone, result
ing from thealtitude; and the location of the
town, land-locked by mountain and mesa
these all conspire to produce an atmos-
phere which Is q balm to all diseases OF the
respiratory organs. The percentage Of
death from consumption is lower In New
Mexico than it is anywhere else In the
United States; and no other place In New
Mexico excels Las Vegas in the salubrity
OF it's climate. Asthmatics experiences
immediate and permanent relief, in this
altitude.
In the way of health and pleasure re-
sorts, Las Vegas IL unrivaled. In ! radius
OF twenty miles, In romantic mountain
glens and beside babbliug mountain brooks,
are the Las Vegas Hot Springs, Haryey's'
El Porvenir, Sandoyal's Mineral Hill. Ro,
nero Ranch, Blake's, Sparks, Eapello,
Rociada, and other places, too numerous
to mention, where health can be recovered.
and life becomes pleasure to the ennuye,
the invalid, the over orked business man.
LAS VEGAS has two daily and ave weekly
papers, three banks, two building and loan
associations, three hotels, many boarding
houses, nine churches, a number OF clubs.
and all the leading civic and social socie-
ties; roller flour mill, capacity, fifty bar
rels per day; two wool-scouring establish
ments,. cleaning 100000 pounds OF wool
annually; q well-equipped brewery ana
bottling establishments mandatory Of
mineral and carbonated waters; two waR-
on and carriage factories; saddle and
harness factory; foundry, cleo
trio light plant, three planning mills.
and other enterprises OF less importance.
There are eight large wholesale houses,
whose trade extends throughout tho Ter
ritory, and into the adjoining sections;
while the volume of this trade, and the
value OF the stocks which they carry, can
not be duplicated west of Kansas City and
south OF Denver. Three msrchants' brok.
ers have selected the city as their distrib-
uting center, the amount OF their yearly
sales exceeding, In the aggregate, the COM
bined sales Of all other such brokers In
New Mexico. The retail merchants, of
Las Vegas, are more numerous, and carry
larger and better stocks Of goods than do
the retail merchants OF any other town In
this Territory or Arizona.