Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-01-21
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 In
America. Her thermal water RS are the
equal OF the Hot Springs OF Arkansas,
rWbile her climate Is Infinitely superior.
Ihere Is 40 malaria, no excessive heat or
cold, no gnate, rats or mosquitoes. The
air Is pure, dry, rarified, and highly cleo
tri1ed--a certain cure for consumption, IL
the disease be taken In time. The hot
waters are a specific for liver. skin, rheu-
matte aud blood disorders, Her Montezu-
ma hotel is the finest hosiery between
Chicago and Califoi mia, and is situated 10
a beautiful canyon, five miles from town,
where the Hot Springs. forty Ia lumber,
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
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 sixty-ive 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 n 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 r~esinous 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 a balm to all diseases OF the
respiratory organs. The percentage of
death from consumption is lower In New
Mexico b 1t is any where else in the |
United States; and no other place In Now
Mexico excels Las Vegas in the salubrity |
OF its climate. Asthmatics experience |
and permanent relief, in this
altitude.
sorts, Las Vegas IL unrivaled. In a radius |
OF twenty miles, in romantic mountain
glens and beside babbling mountain brooks,
are the Las Vegas Hot Springs, Harvey's. |
Ell Poryenir, Sandoval's Mineral Hill, Ro-
nero Ranch, Blake's, Sparks, Sapello,
Rociada, and other places, too numerous
TO mention, where health can be recovered,
ana life becomes a pleasure to the ennuye,
the Invalid, the over-worked business man,
LA VEGAS has two daily and dive weekly
papers, three banks, two building and loan
associations, three hotels, many boarding
nine churches, q number of clubs,
all the leading civic and social socie-
a roller -four mill, capacity, fifty bar
per day two wool-scouring establish
nents,. cleaning 100000 pounds Of wool
a veil equipped brewery and
)ottling establishment; a mandatory of
and c~arbonated waters; two wag-
N and carriage factoriesi a saddle and
,srns Ts,, factory n'sy; a foundIS, sisc-
nd other enterprises of less importance.
There are eight large wholesale houses,
whose trade extends throughout the Ter.
itory, and into the adjoining sections;
Vhils the volume of this trade. and the
alue of the stocks which they carry, can
Ot be duplicated west Of Kansas City and
outh of Denver. Three merchan, s. brok-
RS have selected the city as their distrib-
ting center, the amount Of their yearly
ales exceeding, in the aggregate, the com !
sales of all other such brokers In
Mexico. The retail merchants, of
las Vegas, are more numerous, and carry
anger and better stocks of goods than do
be retail merchants of any other town in
Dis Territory or Arizona.
LAS VEGAS is the distributing point for
early all New Mexico. By the Atchlson
ystem, she has connection with Kansas
n the east, Colorado on the north, Arizo-
a and California on the west, and Texas
nd Old Mexico on the south. Besides
lese, she has more stage lines, connecting r
er with tributary territory, than has any l.
town in New Mexico. This territory :
lcludes the entire section east and south /.
the mountains, n comprises the coun-
es OF Colfax, Mora, Taos, San Miguel, |
anita Fe, Socorro, Dona Ana, Grant,
HAYES, Lincoln and Eddy, with parts of
alencia and Bernalillo-a country larger
all New England. This takes in the
lmous Valley ofthe Rio Grande, and the
IS famous, but not less excellent, Valley
the Pecos-the finest fruit sections Of
lie west.
This Territory is rich In everything thst
the Wealth Of Nations. Iron,
,al, lead, silver, gold, mica, limestone,
'ndstone. marbles, gypsum, soda in end 3
10 variety and exhapstless quantities, |
q among the several products of the
,untry which Las Vegas commands.
heep, cattle and lumber abound, SO that
each of these prime articles of commerce
lis CRY is the best market In New Mexico.
handles more wool than all the other
WINS in the Territory combined, while
y m in hides is truly enormous
the same way, she stands pre- eminent
r her traae in grains, hay, vegetables,
i'd other farm products: while her trade
ice, gathered in the neighboring noun r
in canyons, extends east into Kansas,
est iato Arizona, and south into Old
exico.