Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-07-22

Las Vegas the Chief City
of New Mexico-- Some
Of Her Resources,
Attractions and
Advantages.

LAS VEGAS IL the natural aanatorium OF
the United States, combining more nat
ural advantages than any other place 10
America. Her thermal waters are the
equal OF the Hot Springs Of Arkansas
while her climate Is Infinitely superior.
There Is no malaria, mo excessive heat or
cold, no gnats, rats or MOSQUITOES. ine
air IS pure, dry, rarihed, and highly cleo
triHed-a certain cure for consumption, II
the disease be taken in time. The hot
waters are a specific for liver. skin, rheu-
matte and blood disorders. Her Montezu-
ma hotel Is the finest hosteIry between
Chicago and California, and is 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 Is
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-
erees, while 1t often runs, In the sunshine.
| to sixty-fve degrees--or oven more. On
Il IQ8 OLl6L uuuut IA - $3.50 ~-r
| neyer oppressive, IN the shade, and no
| night is too warm for comfortable sleep,
| under one or two blankets. 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; 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-
| pnere which Is q balm to all diseases OF the
| respiratory organs. The percentage OF
death from consumption 10 lower In New
| Mexico than it Is any where else In the
| United States; and no other place In New
| Mexico excels Las Vegas in the salubrity
/ of It's climate. Asthmatics experience
immediate and permanent relief, In this
| altitude.
In the way OF health INT pleasure re-
sorts, Las Vegas is unrivaled. In . radius
OF twenty miles, in romantic mountain
| glens aud beside babbliug mountain brooks,
are the Las Vegas Hot Springs. Harvey's,
Ell Porvenir, Sandoval's Mineral Hill, Ro-
nero Ranch, Blake's, Sparks, Sapello,
Rociada, and other places, too Numerous
TO mention where health can be recover ed.
and life becomes q pleasure to the ennuye,
the invalid, the over-worked business nan.
LAS VEGAS mas tNO uHlly anu uNe Wcekiy
papers, three banks, two building n loan
associations, three hotels, many boarding
houses, nine churches, q number of clubs,
and eli the leading civic end social socie-
ties; q roller hour mill. capacity, fifty bar
rels per day two Woodworking establish
ments, cleaning 100000 pounds Of wool
annually; a well-equipped brewery and
botting establishments; a mandatory oil
mineral and c~arbonated waters; two wag-
on and carriage factories; q saddle and
harness factory; q 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 th'
value of the stocks which they carry, car
not be duplicated west Of Kansas City ant
south Of Denver. Three merchants brok
ers have selected the city as their distrib
uting center, the amount of their yearl.
sales exceeding, in the aggregate, the com
bined sales Of all othor such brokers Ii
New Mexico. The retail merchants, o
4 Las Vegas, are more numerous, and carr.
larger and better stocks OF goods than d
the retail merchants OF any other town II
This Territory or Arizona.