Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-01-14
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 OF
the United States, combining more nat
ural ADVANTAGES than any other place IL
America. Hor thermal WATERS are tn.
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 mosquitoes. The
air Is pure, dry, rarihed, and highly cleo
trified-a certain cure for Consumption, il
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, aud Is situated In
q 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 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 it often runs, in the sunshine,
to sixty-1ve degrees-or even more. On
the other hand, In the summer, the heat is
never oppressive, In the shade, n no
night is1 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.
tu1iun VI mOlstuTt, tue TeB1QOub 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 than it is nywhere 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 unrivaled. In a radius
OF twenty miles, In romantic mountain
glens and beside babbliug mountain brooks,
are the Las Vegas Hot Springs. Harvey's,
Ell P%orvenir, ~Sandoval's Mineral Rill, 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-workedb business man.
LAS VEGAS has two daily and ive 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 iour mill, capacity. fifty bar
rels per day two wool-scouring establish
ments,. cleaning $1,000 0 pounds of wool
annually; a well equipped brewery and
bottling establishment; a mandatory of
mineral and carbonated waters; two wag-
on and carriage factories; a saddle and
aesssss-.ss~ ssar-+ ~foundIJ cleo
trio light plant, three planning mills. |
and other enterprises of less importance.
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 the
value of the stocks which they carry, can
not be duplicated west of Kansas City and
south of Denver. Three merchants brok.
ers have selected the city as their distrib-
uting center, the mount 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
and better stocks OF goods than do
the retail merchants OF any other town In
this Territory or Arizona.
LAS VEGAS Is the distributing point for
nearly all New Mexico. By the Atchlson
she has connection with Kansas
on the east, Colorado on the north, Arizo-
ma and California on the west, and Texas
and Old Mexico on the south. Besides
these, she has more stage lines, CONNECTING
ner with tributary territory, than has any
other town in New Mexico. This territory
includes the entire section east and south
)f the mountains, sud comprises the coun-
OF COlIaX, mOTh, laos, Gan mlRuel,
Santa Fe, Socorro, Dona Ana, Grant,
Chaves, Lincoln and Eddy, with parts of
Valencia and BernaliIlo-a country larger
han all New England. This takes in the
.amous Valley ofthe Rio Grande, and the
ess 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,
'andstone, marbles, gypsum, soda in end
,ss variety and exhaustless quantities,
ire among the several products of the
which Las Vegas commands.
sheep, cattle and lumber abound, so that
n each of these prime articles of commerce
his city is the best market in New Mexico.
Sue handles more wool than all the other
owns in the Territory combined, while
Ter m in hides is truly enormous.
the same way, she stands pre-eminent
or her trade in grains, hay, vegetables,
md other farm products; while her trade
o ice, gathered in the n~eighboring noun
canyons, extends east into Kansas,
vest jato Arizona, and south into Old
dexico.
Cecil, the young son of Mr. and
drs. Louis Hostetter, has been on the '
ick list at Las Cruces.