Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-05-13
THIS LOCALITY
Las Vegas the Chief City
of New Mexico--Some
of Her Resources,
Attractions and
Advantages.

LAS VEGAS In the natural sanatorium OF
the United States. combining more nat
ural advantages thar any other place Ia
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. 1ns
air is pure, dry, rarified, and highly elec-
trlied-a certain cure for consumption, IL
the diseasc 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 hostelry between
Chicago and California. aud is situated IN
q beautiful canyon, five miles from town,
whore the Hot Springs, forty Ia number,
come boiling to the surface.
The latitude 10 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, Ia the shade, below forty de-
| grees, while 1t often runs, In the sunshine,
to sixty-five degrees-or even more. On
the other band, 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
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 locatiopof the
town, land-locked by mountain and mesa
these all conspire to produce an atmos-
pnere which is a balm to all diseases OF the
respiratory organs. The percentage of
death from consumption is lower In New
Na~fan than IL fa anuuwharA nf.~ l. -
United States; and M other place In New
Mexico excels Las Vegas in the salubrity
of its climate. Asthmatics experience
immediate II permanent relief, in this
altitude.
lu the way of health and pleasure re-
sorts, Las Vegas is unrivaled. In q radius
OF twenty miles, in romantic mountain
glens and beside babhling mountain brooks,
are the Las Vegas Hot Springs. Harvey's,
El Porvenir, SnndovaI's Mineral Hill. ko-
nero Ranch, Blake's, Sparks, 4apello,
Rocisda, and other places, too Numerous
to mention, where health can be recovered, |
n life becomes a pleasure to the ennuye, |
the invalid, the oyer-worked business man. |
LAS VEGAS has two daily and ave weekly |
three banks, two building and loan
associations, three hotels, many boarding
houses, nine churches, a number OF clubs.
and all the leading civic and ocial socie.
ties a roller flour mill, capacity, fifty bar
rsls per day two wool-soouring establish
mouts, cleaning 1,500,0 900 pounds Of wool
annually; a ~well-equipped brewery aud
bottling establishments; a mandatory OF
mineral and carbonsted watersi two wag-
on and carriage factories; a saddle and
factory; a foundry. cleo
trio light plant, three playing 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;
the volume of this trade, and The
value of the stocks which they carry, can
not be duplicated west of Kansas City and
south of Beaver. Three m~erchants' brok-
srs have selscted the city as their distrib-
lting center, the amount OF their yearly
'ales exceeding, IN the aggregate, the com
sales OF all other such brokers in
New Mexico. The retail merchants, Of
Las Vegas, arc more numerous, and carry
and better stocks OF goods than do
'he retail merchants OF any other town in
his Territory or Arizona,