Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-05-24
THIS LOCALITY
Las Vegas the Chief City
of New Some
of Her Resources,
Attractions and
Advantages.

LAS VEGAS is the natural sanatorium Of
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 10 no malaria, no excessive heat or
cold, no gnats, rats or mosquitoes. Ine
air Is pure, dry, rarified, and highly cleo
triied-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 Montezu-
ma hotel is the finest hpstelry between
Chicago and California. n is situated In
g beautiful canyon, five miles from town,
where the Hot Springs, forty 10 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 IL often runs, In the sunshine,
to sixty-fve 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 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
tains; tho 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 Is o balm to all diseases OF the
respiratory organs. The percentage of
death from consumption is lower In New
Mexico than 1t is anywhere else In the
United States; and no other place In New
Mexico excels Las Vegas in the salubrIty
OF its climate. A~sthmatics experience
immediate and permanent relief, in this
altitude.
In the way Of health and pleasure re-
sorts, Las Vegas IL unrivaled. In a radius
OF twenty miles, In romantic mountain
glens and beside babbling mountain brooks,
are the Las Vegas Hot Springs. Harvey's,
FL Porvenir, Sandovals 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.
LAS VRGAa hes two daily and dve weekly
papers, three banks. two building and loah
associations, three hotels, many boarding
houses, nine churches, 2 number OF clubs,
auU UAl VIC Ac4AA4& SAN4c - 9tfAos otSAc-
ties; q roller -four mill, capacity, fifty bar
rels per day two wool-scouring establish
ments, cleaning 100000 pounds OF wool
annually; a well-equipped brewery and
hottlipg establishments; q manufactory of
mineFai and ~eaThopafed wHFsrsi Twp wRg=
on and carriage factoFissf q 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
ritory, and into the adjoining sections;
while the volume OF this trade. and the
value OF the stocks which they carry, can
not be dupiicated west of Kansas City and
south OF Denver Yhree merchants brok-
ers have selected the city ~ theig dislTiPs
utIng center, the amount OF their. yearly
sales exceeding, in the aggregate, the com-
bined sales Of all other such, brokers In
New Mexico. The retail merchants, OF
Las Vegas, are moro numerous, and carry
larger and better akonke OF goods than do
the retail merchants OF any other town in
tbis Territory or Arizona,