Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-26

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the United States, combining more nat
ural advantages than any other place Il
! Amarica Her the-.:= -= sac ~,
equal OF the Hot Springs OF Arkansas
while her climate is infinitely superior
There Is no malaria. no excessive heat OF
cold, no gnats, rats or mosquitoes. Ia
arr is pure, dry, rarifed, and highly cleo.
trifisd-a certain cure for consumption. n
the disease be taken IN time. The hoi
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 10
a beautiful canyon, five miles from town,
where the Hot Springs. forty In number,
come boiling to the surface.
The latitude Is about the same as that OF
central Tennessee. while tue altitude is
nearly $500 feet. This combination gives
a peculiar, but most happy, result. In the
winter, during the day, the thermometer
seldom falls. 10 the shade. below forty de-
grees, while 1t often runs, in the sunshine,
to slxty-fve 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-
tatton of moisture; the resinous aroma,
rolling down from the pine clad noun
tains; the large amount of electricity Ia
the air, and the consequent ozone, result
ing from thealtitude; and the location of the
fnuun lar1-InnEad 30 n.1..knfa - ---~-
these ell conspire to produce an atmos-
phere which is a balm to all diseases OF the
respiratory organs. The percentage OF
death from consumption Is lower In New
Mexico than IL is anywhere else in the
United States; n no other place In New
Mexico excels Las Vegas in the saiubrity
of lis climate. Asthmatics experience
and permanent relief, in this
altitude.
In the way of health and pleasure re-
sorts, Las Vegas is unrivaled. In q radius
OF twenty miles, 10 romantic mouptain
glens and beside batbliug mountain brooks. |
are the Las Vegas Hot Springs. Harvey's, |
Porvenir, Sandoval's Mineral Hill, Ro-
nero Ranch, Blake's, Sparks, Sapello,
and other places, too Numerous
to mention where health can be recovere cd. |
and life becomes a pleasure &c the ennuye,
The invalid, the ~oyer-worked business man. |
LAS VEGAS has two daily and hye weekly
papers, three banks. two building and loan
associations. three hotels. many boarding
nine churches, q number OF clubs.
and all the leading civic and social socie-
Hes; q roller -four mill, capacity, fifty bar
per day; two -wool-scouring establish
neots, cleaning 10000 pounds Of wool
annually; a we'll equipped brewery and
establishment; q m~anufactory OF
and carbonated waters; two waQ-
IN and carriage factories; q saddle and
,erness factory; a foundry. elee-
ric light plant, three planning mills,
other enterprises of less importance.
There are eight large Wholesale houses,
whose trade extends throughout the Ter
itory, 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 merchant brok.
rs have selected the city as their distrib-
center, the mount Of their yearly
ales exceeding, in the aggregate, the com.
lined sales Of all other such brokers in
lew Mexico. The retail merchants, of
,as Vegas, are more numerous, and Garry
and better stocks Of goods than do
be retail merchants OF any other town in
his Territory or Arizona.