Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-07-06
TAIS LOCALITY
Las Vegas the Chief City
of New Mexico Some
of Her Resources,
Attractions and
Advantages.

LAS VEGAS L. the natural sanatorium o.
the United States, combining more nat
ural advantages than any other place II
America. Her tbermaI waters are tn,
equal OF the Hot Springs OF Arkansas
while her climate il Infinitely superior
There Is no malaria, no excessive neat OF
cold, no gnats, rats or mosquitoes. sI0t
AIR ls pure, dry, r~ariied, 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, rbcu-
matte and blood disorders. Her Moutesu-
ma hotel Is the finest hostelry between
Chicago aud California, and is situated In
= beautiful canyon, i've miles from town,
where the Hot Springs. forty In number,
come boiling to the surface.
The latitude 10 about the same Is that Of
central Tennessee, while the altitude 10
nearly 6,5OO 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 der
grees, while II often runs, In the sunshine,
to sixty-Hv degrees-or even more. On
tho other hand, In the summer. the heal 10
never oppressive, IN the shade, aud 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 drynsss OF
the air, caused by the very slight prscipi.
tation of moisture; the resinous aroma,
rolling down from the pine-cIad 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-
phere which is q balm to all diseases of the
respiratory organs. The percentage of
Mexico than II is anywhere else in the
United States; and no other place In New
Mexico excels Las Vegas In the salubrrty
OF It's climate. AsthIpatics experience
immediate and permanent relief, In this
altitude.
In the way Of health and pleasure re-
sorts, Las Vegas IL unrivaled. 10 q radius
OF twenty miles, in romantic mountain
glens aud beside babbling mountain brooks,
are the Las Vegas Hot Springs. H~arvey's,
81 Porvenir, Sendoval's Mineral Hill. Ro-
Ranch, Blake's, Sparks. SapeIlo.
Rociada, aud other places, too Numerous
TO raention where health can be recover ed,
and life becomes & pleasure TO the ennuye,
Invalid, the over-worked business mani
1900 -OAc 'NN ~ ahAAy 6iA Xxx W0GklN
papers, three banks, two building ana loan |
associRtions, three hotels. many boarding |
nine churches, q number OF clubs. |
and all the leading civic and social soeie-
mes; a roller Jour mill, capacity, ffty bar
per.day two -wool-scouring establish
De1ts, cleaning 1,5G0, coo pounds of wool
aurHally; a we~il-equipped brewery and
establishment; a manufactory OF
nineral and carbonated waters; two wag-
IN and Carriage factories; a saddle and
larness factory; a foundI cleo
light plant, three planning mills.
md other enterprises of less Importance.
There are eight large wholesale houses,
whose tradee extends throughout the Ter
ond into the adjoining sections
While the volume Of this trade, and the
falue OF the stocks which they carry, can |
Tot be duplicated west OF Kansas City and
outh of Denver. Three merchants' brok- !
RS have selected the city as their distrib-
lting center, the amount of their yearly
ales exceeding, in the aggregate, the COM
,ined sales of all other such brokers in
sew Mexico. The retail merchants, of
las Vegas, are more numerous, and carry
aud better stoeks Of goods than do
he retail merchants OF any other town in
his Territory or Arizona.