Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-07-14

Las Vegas the Chief City
of New Mexico Some
Of Her Resources,
Attractions and
Advantages.

LAS VEGAS Is the natural sanatorium G
the United States, combining more nat
ural advantages than any other place a
America. Her thermal waters are tn
equal OF the Hot Springs OF Arkansas
while her climate IL infinitely superior
There Is no malaria, no excessive heat o
cold, no gnats, rats or mosquitoes. Ia
AIR IS pure, dry, rarified, and highly cleo
triied--a certain cure for consumption, |
tho disease be taken in time. The no
waters are o specific for liver. skin, rheu,
matte and blood disorders. Her Montezu'
ma hotel Is the finest hosiery between
Chicago and California, and is situated Ia
a beautiful canyon, five miles from town
where the Hot Springs, forty Ia number
come boiling to the surface. sysf.f
The latitude IS about the same as that Of
central Tennessee. while the altitude ID
nearly $500 feet. This combination gives
a peculiar, but most happy, result. In the
wintor. during the day, the thermometer
seldom falls. In the shade, below forty de-
grees, while 1t often runs, in the sunshine,
to sixty Ave degrees-or even more. On
Ahp ttt uuuus III JUG HuLuIutE- tub neat ID
never oppressive, IN the shade, and no
night is too warm for comfortable sleep,
under a 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 resinous aroma,
rolling down from the pine-c 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-iocked by mountain and mesa
these all conspire to produce an atmos-
pnere which Is q balm to all diseases OF the
respiratory organs. The percentage of
death from consumption is lower Ia New
Mexico than IL is anywhere else In the
United States; n no other place In New
Mexico excels Las Vegas in the salubrity
of its 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, in romantic mountain
giens and beside babbling 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. |
and life becomes a pleasure to the ,ennuye.
the invalid, the over-worked business man. |
LAB sM6Ao has Two udlly duu QVo weekly
papers, three banks, two building and loan |
associations, three hotels, many boarding |
nine churches, a number OF clubs,
and all the leading civic and social socie-
ties; q roller fiour mill, capacity, fifty bar
rels per day two wool-scouring establish
nents, cleaning 100000 pounds of wool
annually; a we'll equipped brewery and
establishments; a manufactory of |
and carbonated waters; two waR-
IN and carriage factories; a saddle and
harness factory; "a foundry, cleo
light plant, three planning mills, |
Ind 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
value of the stocks which they carry, can
lot be duplicated west of Kansas City and
outh of Denver. Three merchants brok-
RS have selected the city as their dfstrib- |
ting center, the amount 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 carry
arRer and better stocks of goods than do
be retail merchants OF any other town In
bis Territory or Arizona. s