Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-08
THIS LOCALITY
Las Vegas the Chief City
of New Mexico Some
of Her Resources,
Attractions and
Advantages.

LAS VEGAS is the natural sanatorium OF
the United States, combining more nat
ural advantages than any other place 10
America. Her thermal waters are the
equal OF the Hot Springs Of Arkansas
while her climate IL infinitely superior.
There Is no malaria. NO excessive heat or
cold, no gnats, rats or Ins
AIR Is pure, dry, rarihed, aud highly cleo
trihed-a certain cure for consumption, II
the disease be taken In time. The hot
waters are a specific for liver. skin, rheu-
matte and blood disorders, Her Montezu-
ma hotel Is the finest. hostelry between
Chicago and California, and Is situated Ia
Q beautiful canyon, Ave miles from town,
where the Hot SPRING., forty 10 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
q peculiar, but most happy, result. Ia the
winter, during the day. the thermometer
seldom falls, In the shade, below forty de-
grees, while II often runs, in the sunshine,
to sixty-five degrees-or even more. On
the other hand, In the summer. the heat Is
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 dryness Of
the air, caused by the very slight precipi-
tation Of moisture; the resinous aroma,
rolling down from the pine clad noun
talns; the large amount Of electricity 10
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 tho
respiratory organs. The percentage Of
death from consumption Is lower Ia New
Mexico than 1t Is anywhere else In the
United States; and no other place In New
Mexico excels Las Vegas in the salubrity
of its climate. Asthmatics experience
immediate and permanent relief. In this
altitude.
In the way of health and pleasure re-
sorts, Las Vegas Is u%nrivaled. In O radius
OF twenty miles, In romantic mountain
glens and beside babbling mountain brooks,
are the Las Vegas Hot Springs. Harvey's,
Ell P%orvenir, Sandoval's Mineral Hill, Ro-
nero Ranch, Blake's, Sparks, SapeIlo,
Rociada, and other places, too NUMEROUS
to mention, where health can be recovered,
and life becomes a pleasure TO the ennuye,
the invalid, the 0ver-worked business man.
LAS VEGAS has W daily and five weekly
papers, three banks, two building and loan
hooOCihtioues tuIco uutoibs many DOuTuluB
houses, nine churches, a number OF clubs,
and all the leading civic and social socie-
ties; a roller -four mill, capacity. fifty bar
rels per day two wool-scouring establish
ments, cleaning 1900, 900 pounds of wool
annually; a well-equipped brewery and
bottling establishment; q mandatory OF
mineral and c~arbonated waters; two wag-
on and carriage factories; q saddle and
harness factory; o foundry. cleo
trio light plant, three planning mills,
and other enterprises Of less importance.
There are eight large Wholesale houses,
trade extends throughout the Ter
and into the adjoining sections
the volume OF this trade. and the
value of the stocks which they carry, can
be duplicated west of Kansas City aud
south of Denver. Three merchants' brok-
ers have selected the city as their distrib.
center, the amount of their yearly
sales exceeding, In the aggregate, the COM
sales of all other such brokers In
New Mexico. The retail merchants, of
Vegas, are more, numerous, n carry
and better stock Of goods than do
the retail merchants OF any other tovyn In
Territory or Arizona.