Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-04-12
THIS LOCALITY
Las Vegas the Chief City
of New Mexico Some
of Her Resources,
Attractions and
Advantages.

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LAS VEGAS Is the natural sanatorium o
the United States, combating more nat
ural advantages than any other place II
America. Her tbermal waters are III,
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. The
air is pure, dry, rarified, and highly cleo.
triied-a certain cure for consumption. Il
the disease be taken In time. The hol
waters are O specific for liver. skin, rheu.
matte and blood disorders. Her Montezn.
ma hotel Is the finest hostelry between
Chicago and California. and 10 itusted 10
a beautiful canyon, Ave miles from town,
where the Hot Springs, forty In number,
come boiling to the surface.
The latitude 10 about the same as hat Of
central Tennessee, while the altitude Is
nearly $500 feet. This combination gives
q peculiar, but most happy, result. In the
winter, during the day, the Thermometer
seldom falls, In the shade, below forty de-
grees, while IL often runs, In the sunshine,
| to sixty-iive degrees-or even more. On
never oppressive, in the shade, and no
night is too warm for comfortable sleep,
under one or two blankets. The sun win
chine nine days out Of every ten, the year
round. This. with the extreme dryaess OF
be air, caused by the very slight preclpi-
tation OF moisture; the resinous aroma,
rolling Town from the pine-ciad noun
tains; 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 the
respiratory organs. The percentage of
death from consumption is lower In New
Mexico than 1t is anywhere else Ia the
United States; and no other place 10 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 unrivaled. In 6 radius
OF twenty miles, In romantic mountain
glens and beside babbliug mountain brooks,
are the Las Vegas Hot Springs. Harvey's,
Ell Porvenir, Sandoval's Mineral Hill, Ro-
nero Ranch, Blake's, Sparks, Sapello,
Rociada, and other places, too Numerous
to mention, where health can be recovered,
aud life becomes a pleasure to the enuuye,
the invalid, the over-worked business man.
Las VEGAS has two daily and i've weekly
papers, three banks, two building and loan
associations, three hotels, many boarding
houses, nine churches, q 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
ultut1s Cht4uluk i,uuO,uuV RQuuQ1 VI WOOL
annually; a well-equipped brewery and
bottling establishment; q mandatory Of
mineral and carbonated waters; two wag-
on and carriage factories; a saddle and
harness factory; foundry, cleo
and other enterprises OF less Importance.
There are eight large Wholesale houses, |
whose trade extends throughout the Tor.
and into the adjoining sections;
while the volume of this trade, and the
value of the stocks which they carry, can
be duplicated west OF Kansas City and
south Of Denver. Three merchants' brok-
ers have 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 In
New Mexico. The retail merchants, Of
Las Vegas, are more numerous, and carry
larger and better stocks Of goods than do
the retail merchants or any other town in
this Territory or Arizona.
LAS VEGAS is the distributing point for
nearly all New Mexico. BY the Atchlson
system, she has connection with Kansas
the east, Colorado on the north, Ariso-
and California on the west, and Texas
ana Old Mexico on the south. Besides
these, she has more stage lines, connecting
her with tributary territory, than has any
other town 10 New Mexico. This territory
includes the entire section east and south
III tu6 uhao 9A4 CdatR . ~ 0oW&-
ties Of Colfax, Mora, Taos, San Miguel,
Santa Fe, Socorr0, Dona Ana, Grant.
Cheyes, Lincoln and Eddy. with parts Of
Valencia and Bernalillo-a country larger
than all New England. This takes In the
famous Valley ofthe Rio Grande, and the
less famous, but not less excellent, Valley
of the Pecos-the finest fruit sections Of
the west.
This Territory Is rich In everything that
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 the
which Las Vegas commands.
Sheep, cattle end lumber abound, 50 that
In zach Of these prime articles OF commerce
this city 10 the best market In New Mexico.
She handles more wool than all the other
towns Ia the Territory combined, while
her commerce In hides is truly enormous.
In The same way, she stands pre-eminept
for her trade in grain, hay, vegetables
and other farm products; while her trade
10 ice, gathered in the nei6hborlng mopr
tain canyons, extends east into Kansas.
v eat into Arizona, and soutl into Old