Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-05-07
THIS LOCALITY
Las Vegas the Chief City
of New Mexico-- Some
of Her Resources,
Attractions and t..Fs
Advantages.

LAS VEGAS is the natural sanatorium o
the United States, combining more nat
ural advantages than any other place II
America. Her thermal waters are tn
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. Tn.
air Is pure, dry, rariied, and highly cleo
trifed-a certain cure for consumption. Il
| the disease be taken In time. The no
waters are a specific for liver, skin, rheu.
matte and blood disorders. Her Montezu.
ma hotel n the finest hostelry between
| Chicago and California, and is situated In
q beautiful canyon, FIVE miles from town
| whore the Hot Springs, forty In number
come boiling to the surface.
The latitude 10 about the same as that oil
| central Tennessee, while the altitude IL
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 IL often runs, In the sunshine,
to sixty-five degrees-or even more. On
the other hand, 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 viii
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 ~rssinous aroma,
rolling down from the pine-clad noun
tainsI 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 10 O balm to all diseases of the
respiratory organs. The percentage Of
death from consumption is lower In New
Mexico han 1t is anywhere else Ia the
United States; and no other place In New
Mexico excels Las Vegas in the salubrity
of its climate. Asthmatlcs experience
immediate n permanent relief, la this
altitude.
In the way Of health and pleasure re-
sorts, Las Vegas is unrivaled. In o radius
OF twenty miles, In romantic mountain
glens and beside babbliug mountain brooks,
Ii PorveniT, s~sndoysl;s Mineral HIli, Ro..
nero Ranch, Blaks's, Sparks, Bapello,
Rociada, and other places, too Numerous
to mention, where health can be recovered,
and life becomes q pleasure to the ennuye,
the invalid, the over-worked business man.
LAS VEGAS has two daily and Ave 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; q roller four mill, capacity, fifty bar
rels per day two understanding establish
ments, cleaning 100000 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
harness factory; foundry, 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
Fitqry, erd 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 amount of their yearly
sales exceeding, in the aggregate, the COM
hiped 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
Territory or Arizona.