Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-05-26
THIS LOCALITY
Las Vegas the Chief City
of New Mexico Some
of Her Resources,
Attractions and
Advantages.

LAS VEGAS is the natural sanatorium oil
the United States, combining more nat
ural advantages than any other place In
America. Her thermal waters are the
| equal of the Hot Springs of Arkansas
while her climate Is Infinitely superior.
There Is no malaria. NO excessive heat or
cold, no gnats, rats or mosquitoes. Ine
air Is pure, dry, rarified, and highly eiec-
trified-a certain cure for consumption, II
the disease be taken in time. The hot
waters are q specific for liver. skin, rheu-
matte and blood disorders. Her Moptezu-
ma hotel Is the finest hostelry between
Chicago and CALIFORNIA; aud is situated In
. 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. In the shade, below forty de-
grees, while Ii often runs, In the sunshine,
to sixty five degreas-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 will
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round. This. with the extreme dryuvss of
the air, caused by the very slight precipi-
tation of moisture; the resinous aroma,
rolling down from the pine-clad noun
tains; the large amoun 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 q balm to all diseases OF the
respiratory organs. The percentage OF
death from consumption is lower In New
Mexico than II is anywhere else In the
United Etatest and no other place In New
Mexico excels Las Vegas in the ~salubrity
OF its climate. Asthnatics experience
Immediate and permanent relief, in this
altitude.
In the way. Of health and pleasure re.
sorts, Las Vegas IL unrivaled. In q radius
OF twenty miles, Ia romantic mountain
gIens and beside babbling mountain brooks,
are the Las Vegas Hot Springs. Harvey's,
Eel Porvenlr, Sandoval's Mineral Hill, Ro-
nero Ranch, Blake's, Sparks, Sapelio,
Rociada, and other places, too Numerous
and life becomes q pleasure TO the ennuye,
the invalid, the ~over-woFked business man.
LAS VEGAS has two daily and iye 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 tiour mill, capacity. fifty bar
rels per day two ~wool-scouring establish
ments, cleaning 100000 pounds of wool
annually; a ~welI-equipped brewery and
bottling establishment; q mandatory of
miOepal and carbonated waters; two wag-
on and carriage factories, a saddle and
harness factory; q foundry. ele0s
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 10 Duplicated Reat Of Kansas City and
south Of Denver. Three merchants' brok-
ers have selected the city as their distrib-
nting center, the mount Of their yearly
sales e~xceeding, 81 the aggregate, the com
hjued sales Of All other such brokers In
New Mexico. The retail merchants, Of
Las Vegas, are more numerous, and carry
and better st6oks Of goods than do
tho rf1tnil merchants OF any other town In
this TeNaHpry OF Arizona.