Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-02-02
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 Ia
| 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, rariied, and highly cleo
| trifed-a certain cure for consumption, II
the disease be taken In time. The hot
waters are q specific for liver. skin, rheu-
matte aud blood disorders. Her Montezu-
ma hotel is the finest hostelry between
Chicago and California, and is situated in
q beautiful canyon, Ave miles from town,
| whore the Hot Springs, forty in number,
come boiling to the surface.
The latitude Is 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, Id the sunshine,
to sixty-fve degrees-or even more. On
the other band, 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 dryDess Of
the air, caused by the very slight preeipi-
tatiop 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 on etmos-
phere which is . 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
TT.g&1A EfAtno, aAd NO nthap MA M in Man
| 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 IL unrivaled. In a radius
OF twenty miles, in romantic mountain
glens and beside babbling mountain brooks,
are the Las Yegas Hot springs. Haryey's,
| Ell Porvsnir, Sandovai's Mineral Hill, Ro-
nero Ranch, Blake's, Sparks, Sapello,
| Rociada, and other places, too numerous
to mention, where health can be recovered,
and life becomes a pleasure to the ennuye,
the invalid, the over-worked business man.
Las VEGAS has two daily and aye weekly
papers, three banks, two building and loan
associations, three hotels, many boarding
houses, nine churches, a number of clubs,
ties; a roller -four mill, capacity, fifty bar
rels per day two Woodworking establish
ments, cleaning 100000 pounds Of wool
annually; a we'll equipped brewery aad
hottling establishment; a manufactory Of
mineral and c~erbonated waters; two wsg-
on and carriage factories; a saddle and
t harness sisn. fs n1. 2 ,h = fou u,sn,D. m eIss,
and other enterprises Of loss 'imporfancs,
There are eight large wholesale houses
whose trade extends throughout the Ter.
ritory, and into the adjoining sections
while the volume of this trade, and tht
value OF the stocks which they carry, car
not be duplicated west'of Kansas City and
south OF Denver. Fhree merchants brok'
ers nave 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 II
New Mexieo, The retail merchants, q
Las Vegas, are mer numerous, and carry
larger and better stocks. of goods han d.
the retail merchants Of any other town IL
this Territory or ARIZONA,
LAS VEGAS is the distributing point fol
nearly all New Mexico. By the Atchlsor
system, she has connection with Kansa'
on the east, Colorado on the north, Ariso'
ma and California on the west, and Texas
and Old Mexico on the south. Beside'
these, she has more stage lines, connecting
her with tributary territory, than has any
other town In New Mexico. This territory
Includes Cno enClT6 SecblOH east auu eoupi
Of the mountains, and comprises the coun'
ties of Colfax, Mora, Taos, San Miguel
Santa Fe, Socorro, Dona Ana, Grant
Chayes, Lincoln and Eddy. with parts O
Valencia and Bernalillo-a country largel
than all New England. This takes in thu
famous Valley ofthe Rio Grande, and thu
less famous, but not less EXCELLENT, Valley
Of the Peoos-the finest fruit sections o.
the west.
This Territory is rich In everything tina
constitutes the Wealth of Nations. Iron
coal, lead, silver, gold, mica, limestone
sandstone, marbles, gypsum, soda in end
ess variety and exhaustless quantities
are among the several products of th'
country which Las Vegas commands
Sheep, cattle and lumher abound, 80 thai
in each Of these prime articles of commercs
this city is the best market in New Mexico
She handles more wool than all the othel
towns In the Territory combined, while
her In hides is truly enormous
In the same way, she stands p%re-eminen'
for her trade in grains, hay, vegetables
and other farm products: while her trade
In ice, gathered in the ~neighboriug noun
tain canyons, extends east into Kansas
west into Arizona, and south into Ole
Mexico.