Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-29

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

LAS VEGAS Is the natural sanatorlum Of
the United States, combining moro nat
nral advantages than any other place 10
America. Her thermal waters arc the
equal OF the Hot Springs OF Arkansas
while her climate is Infinitely superior.
There 10 no malaria. no excessive heat or
cold, no gnats, rats or mosquitoes. Ace
air IS pure, dry, rarided, and highly cleo
triHed-a certain cure for consumptioD, n
the disease be taken 10 time. The hot
waters are q specific for liver. skin, rheu-
matte and blood disorders. Her Montezu-
ma hotel 10 the finest h~osteIry between
Chicago and California, and il situated In
q beautiful canyon, five miles from town,
whore the Hot Springs, forty 10 number,
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. In the shade, below forty de-
grees, while II often runs, In the sunshine,
to sixty-fiv degrees-or sven more. On
the other hand, In the summer. the heat o.
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 dryness of
the air, caused by the very slight precipi-
tation Of moisture; the resinous aroma,
rolling down from the pine-clad noun
taine; the large amount OF electricity In
the air, and the consequent ozone, result
Ing from thealtitude; and the of the
town, land-locked by mountain and mesa
these all conspire to produce an atmos-
pnere which is a balm ia. all iseases OF the
respiratory organs. The percentage of
death from consumption Is lower In New
Mexico than IL is anywhere else In the
United States; and no other place 10 New
Mexico excels Las Vegas in the salubrlty
OF its climate. Asthmatics experience
immediate and permanent relief, In this
altitude.
In the way of health and pleasure re-
sorts, Las Vegas IL unrigaled. In a radius
OF twenty miles, 10 romantic mountain
glens aud beside babbling mountain brooks, |
are the Las Vegas Hot Springs. Harvey's,
Ell Porvenir, Sandovsl's Mineral Hill, Ro-
nero Ranch,e1 Blake'Sf Sparks, Sapello, |
RociaGa, and other places, too NUMEROUS
to mention where health can be recover sd, |
and life becomes a pleasure TO the ennuye,
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, NAM boarding
nine churches, a 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
cleaning 1,500,c00 pounds Of wool
annually; a we'll. equipped brewery and
establishment; q ~manufactory of
and carbonated waters; two wag-
)u and carriage fGctories; a saddle and
harness factory; a foundry. cleo
light plant, three planning mile,
md other enterprises of less importance.
There are eight large Wholesale houses,
whose trade extends throughout the Ter
and into the adjoining sections;
the volume of this trade. and the
of the stocks which they carry, can
lot be duplicated west OF Kansas City aud
Iouth of Denver. Three mercha nts' brok-
IFS have selected the city as their distrib-
iting center, the amount of their yearly
exceeding, in the aggregate, the COM
Gales Of all other such brokers 10
New Mexico. The retail merchants, of
Jas Vegas, are more numerous, and carry
and better stocks OF goods than do
be retail merchants OF any other town in
his Territory or Arizona.