Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-01
THIS LOCALITY
Las Vegas the Chief City
of New Mexico Some
of Her Resources,
Attractions and
Advantages.

LAS VEGAS Is the natural sanatorium 0
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. Ia,
air 10 pure, dry, rarifed, and highly cleo
trihed-a certain cure for consumption, n
the disease be taken in time. The hoI
waters are a specific for liver. skin, rheu.
matte and blood disorders. Her Montesu.
ma hotel Is the finest hosteIry between
Chicago and California, and IL situated 10
a 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 Ia
nearly $500 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 de-
grees, while 1t often runs, In the sunshine,
to sixty-five degrees-or even more. On
the other hand, In the summer the heat 10
never oppressive, IN the shade, and no
night is too warm for comfortable sleep,
unuor Vhe OF Two plhhketss Iue 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 precipl-
tation of moisture; the resinous aroma.
rolling down from the pine ella noun
taIns; the large amount of electricity In
the air, and the consequent ozone, result
Ing from thenltitude; and the location of the
town, land-locked by mountain and mesa
these ell conspire to produce an atmos-
phere which is a balm to all diseases Of the
respiratory organs. The percentage of
death from consumption lie lower In New
Mexico than 1t is anywhere else In the
United States; and no other place In Nav
Mexico excels Las Vegas In the salubrity
OF It's climate. AsthmatIes experiences
immediate and permanent relief, in this
eltitude.
In the way Of health and pleasure re-
sorts, Las Vegas III unrigaled. In q radius
OF twenty miles. In romantic mouptain
glens and beside habbliug mountain brooks,
are the Lat Vegas Hot Springs. Harvey's,
Porvenir, Sandoval's Mineral Hill. Ro-
nero Ranch, Blake's. Sparks, Sapello.
and other places, too numerous
10 mention, where health can be recovered,
and life becomes o pleasure TO the snnuye.
The Invalid, the ovsf-woFked business nan.
LAS VEG has two daily and fve weekly
papers, three banks, two building and loan
associations, three hotels. many boarding |
III churches, q number of clrbs. |
all the leading civic and social socie, |
lbs; a roller flour mill. capacity, fifty bar |
per day two understanding establish |
nents, cleaning 1,500, 600 pounds OF wool
annually; a well-eqnipped brewery and
establishments; a marufactory of
and carhonated waters; two wag-
N and carriage factories, q saddle and
larness factory; a foundry. cleo
ric light plant, three planning mills,
nd other enterprises of less Importance.
There are eight large Wholesale houses.
whose trade extends throughout the Ter.
tory, and into the adjoining sections:
Vhile the volume Of this trade, and the
alus of the stocks which they carry. can
Iot be duplicated west Of Kansas City and
outh of Denver. Three ~merchants' brok-
rs have selected the city as their distrib-
ting center, the amount of their yearly
ales exceeding, in the aggregate, the com.
ined sales OF all other such brokers In
Mexico. The retail merchants, of
las Vegas, are more numerous, and carry
lrRer and better stock of goods than do
retail merchants of any other town In
mis- Territory or Arizona.