Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-08-28

18th its suburb b., has about 10000 inhab-
ANTS.
A VEGAS INDUSTRIES.
II has water works, street cars, arc and !
acandescept electric hight plant, telephone
Territorial gri;ultural expert
station, headquarters of the Atchison
alwAy system, New Mexico division, to-
,ethsr With railroad machine shops and
ie- preserving works, stock yards, and the
argest sheep .shearing and dipping plant
n the United States
BEAUTIFUL PICTURESQUE.
West Of the river, the old town has the
and picturesque Mexican appear
native people and customs, handi-
aud occupations; but the plaza
and all Of the new town, east OF
the river, sconstitute q distinctive
American city, The streets are wide ana
we'll graded, while sidewalks abound,
shaded with growing trees! Three parks,
tlied with grass ana trees, ada 10 :. D,ac cue
Handsome and we'll filed stores, beautiful
residences, and innumerable lawns, set IN
grass and adorned with s~hrubbery anu
flowers, combine to proclaim q cultured
community. posse sed of all modern COM
forts and conveniences,
PUBLIC AND EDUCATIONAL BUILDINGS.
A city hall, three public school build
logs, court.house, Masonic temple, Opera
house, Territorial Normal school, Terrific
rial Insane asylum, are public buildings,
constructed Of rid and white cut q ~
stone unsurpassed In beauty by similar
edifices In any town, OF equal size, In the
statsa.
An Academy, Seminary, Jesuit college,
cnv.ns school,. Presbyterian Mission
school, Christian brothers institute, City
High school, three graded public schools,
a kindergarten and two Music schools
besides, several private teachers are among
the educational advantages.
SANITARY ADVANTAGES.
Las Vegas Is the natural Sanitarium o.
the United States, combining more nat
urai advantages than any other place II
America. Hsr thermal waters are the equa
OF the Hot Springs Ut Arkansas, while be
climate 10 infinitely superior, There Is NJ
malaria, no excessive heat or cold-n'
Enats, rats or mosquitoes. The air Is pure
dry, rarihed and highly elect, iaed-a Ger
taia cure for consumption, II the diseas
bs taken in time. The hot waters are
blood disorders. Her Montezuma hotel
the finest bostelry between Chicago an
California, aud is situated in q beautifu
cany on, five miles from town, where th
not springs, forty 10 number, come boiiin
70 tho surface.
4ATITppE ANT ALTITupH.
I, The latitude 10 about the same as hat
central Tennessee, while the altitude
,. nearly $500 feet, This combination Civ,
A peculiar, but most happy, result. ln IL
{ winter, during the day, the thermomett
sldom falls, in the shade, below 40, viii
: It often runs in the sunshine, to 6o'-t
ven more. % the other hand, 10 "
summer thu hsat IL never oppressive.
, the shade, and no Light Is too warm |,
|; comfortable sleep, under one or TWO Dian
I cts. The sun will shine nine days OUT
y every ten, the year round, This, with q
. extreme dry ness OF the air, caused by u
! very slight precipitation OF moisture; u
gesinuus arc ma rolling down from u
}, pine clad mountains; the large amount
electricity In the air, and the conseque
zone resulting from the altitude; ana u
location of the own land locked by mou'
ain and mesa-these all consp,re 70 pr
luce an atmosphere which IL q palm TO :
,~issases OF the raspirG organs. II
pareentegs Of death from consumption
lower III New Mexico than II Is any VINE
else In the United States; and no otn
I place in New Mexico excels Las vegas
tho saiubrity Of it's climate. Asthmati
experience immediate and permanent =
lief In shis altitude.
HEALTH AND PLEASURE RESORTS.
In the wsy Of health and pieAsars 7
sorts, Las Vegas is unrivaled. In a radi
of twenty miles, In romantic mounta
W gIens and beside babblin< mountain hrool
ar, Las ysSas Hot Springs, .HaTyey's,
If Porvenir, Sandovai's, Mineral Hiii, Rom
8 70 Ranch. Rlake's,, sparks, sapelo, no'
IL ada aud other places, too humorous
mention, where health Ban be reooyere
ard life becomes u pleasure to the ennuy
the invalid, the over-worked BUSINESS ma
3 NEWSPAPERS, M~ANurAcroR1Es, ETC.
=. Las Vegas has two daily and five week
newspapers; three banks; two buildsI
and loan associatlons; three hotels, al
+ many boarding houses nine c~hnrehesi
number of clubs, and all the leading ciV
. and social soclsties; a roller -four mill, c
y pacity, ffty barrels a day two woo
securing establishments, cleaning l,AOO.O
pounts Of wool annually; a manufactPl
IN az mineral and carbonated waters; tv
wagon and carriage factories; a sadd
an / harness factory; electric light plan
D three planning mills; two cigar manufact
,r ries, and other enterprises OF less impoi
ance.
There are eight large wholesale house
}. whose trade extends throughout the Teri
80 tory and into the adjoining sections, VIII
Z. the volume OF this trade, and the values
q. the stocks they carry, can not be duplica
ed west Of Kansas City and south of De
n YER. Three merchants' brokers have 8
lected this city as their distributing cent
as the amount Of their yearly sales excee
IA ing, in the aggregate, the combined sal
Of all other such brokers in New Mexit
rhe retail merchants of Las Vegas a
more numerous, and garry larger and bt
ter stocks OF goods than do the retail me
chants Of any other town in this Terrific
l. or Arizona.
"a THE DISTRIBUTING POINT.
u Las Vegas is the distributing point
nearly all New Mexico. By the Atchis
"A system, she has connection with Kansas
!. the east, Colorado on the north. Arlzo
and California on the west, ond Texas a.
Old Mexico on the south. Besides the
s. she he's mere stage lines, connecting
with tribntsry territory, thar has o.
rn 49,. -, ~ Nae MaxirO- This terrific