Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-08-26

9ether With railroad machine shops and
tie preserving works, stock yards, and the
largest sheep. shearing and dipping plant
IN the United States
BEAUTIFUL AND PICTURESQUE.
West Of the river, the old town has the
quaint and picturesque Mexican appear
unce - adobe houses, narrow, crooked
streets, native people and customs, handi-
crafts q ~occupations; but the plaza
and all Of the new town, east Of
the river, constitute distinctive
we'll graded, while sidewalks abound,
shaded with growing trees. Three parks,
SLED with grass and trees, add to the
beauty and healtbfulness Of the place
Handsome and we'll filed stores, beautiful
residences, and innumerable lawns, set In
grass and adorned with shrubbery and
flowers, combine TO proclaim a cultured
community, possessed OF all modern COM
forts and conveniences.
PUBLIc AND EDUCATIONAL BUILDINGS.
A city hall, three public school build
lrgs, courthouse, Masonic temple, Opera
house., Territorial Normal school, Terrific.
Insane asylum, are public buildings,
constructed of red and white cut sand
stoue. unsurpassed III beauty by similar
sdiices In any town, OF equal rize, In the
statss.
An Academy, Seminary, Jesuit college,
Convent school, Presbyterian Mission
school, Methodist Manual Training
school, Christian Brothers institute, City
high school, three graded public schools,
a Kindergarten and two Music schools,
besides, several private teachers are among
the educational advantages.
SANITARY ADVANTAGES.
Las Vegas IL the natural Sanitarium OF
the United States, combining more nat
ural advantages than any other place in
America. Her thermal waters are the equal
OF the bot Springs Of Arkansas, while her
climate is infinitely superior. There is no
malaria, no excessive heat or cold-no
snats, rats or mosquitoes. The air is pure,
dry, rarifed and highly elsctriied-a GER
tain cure for consumption, II the disease
bs taken In time. The hot waters are a
specific for liver, skin, rheumatic and
oi0od disorders. Her Montezuma hotel Is
he finest hostelry between Chicago ana
California, and is situated in a beautiful
cGny on, Ave miles from town, where the
aot springs, forty in number, come boiling
10 the surface.
LATITUDE AND ALTITUDE.
Tho latitude 10 about the same as that Of
central Tennessee, while the altitude Is
nearly $500 feet. This combination gives
\ peculiar, but meat happy, result. In the
winter, during the day. the thermometer
. eldom fails, in the shade, below 40s, while
1t often runs, in the sunshine. to 65'-or
sven more. On the other hand, IN the
summer the heat is never oppressive, in
the shade, and no Light is too warm for
comfortable sleep, under one or two blank
cts. The sun will thine nine days out OF
every ter, the year ound, This, with th
extreme dry ness of the air, causeH by the
very slight precipitation OF moisture; the
resinous araDa rolling down from the
pine clad mountains; the large amount OF
electricity 10 the air, and the consequent
zone resulting from the altitude, and the
,ocation of the town, land locked by noun
am and ~nesa-these all conspire to pro
duce an atmosphere which Is a balm to al
diseases of the r-spirs organs. Tn
percentage of death from consumption is
lower IN New Mexico than it Is any where
else in the United States; and no other
place 10 New Aexico e4cela LAS Vegas III
tho saiubEity Of its climate. Asthmatics
experience immediate aid permanent re-
lief IL :his altitude.
HEALTH AND PLEASURE RESORTS.
In tbs way OF health and pleasure re-
sorss, Las Vegas is unrivalrd. In q radius
oF twenty mil 8, in romantic mountain
glens and beside babblinz mountain brooks,
are Las We as Hot Springs, Harvey's, El
Porvenir. Sandavai's, Mineral Hill. Rome
70 Ranch. Blake's, Sparks, Sapello, Roci-
ada and other places, too numerous to
mention, where health can be recovered.
and life becomes a pleasure to the ennuye,
the invalid the oves-worksd hus'ness man
NEWSPAPERS, MA~NuFAcTonIEs, ETC.
Las Vegas has two daily and five weekly
newspapers; th.ee banks; two building
and loan associations; three hotels, and
many boarding houses; nine churches; al
number OF clubs, and all the leading civic
and social soclsties; a roller Hour mill, ca
pac,ty, fifty barrels a day two wool
securing establishments, cleaning 100000
OF wool annually q manufect.r y
mineral and carbonated waters; two
aad carriage factories; a saddle
and harness factory; electric light pant;
three planning millsi two cigar manufacto-
riea. and other enterprises Of less import
ancs.
Ihsre are eight large wholesale houses.
" hose trade extends throughout the Terri
tory and into the adjoining sections. while
he volume OF this trade, and the values OF
The stocks they carry, can not be duplicat-
I'd west OF Kansas City and south OF Den
YER. Three merchants brokers have se-
Acted This CITY AZ their distributing center.
he AMOUNT OF their yearly sales exceed
ng, in the aggregate, the combined sales
II all other sucn brokers in New MEXICO
The retail merchants OF Las Veg,s are
more numerous, and carry larger and bet
err stocks OF goods than do the retail mer-
,hants of any other town in this Territory
,r Arizona.
-rHE DISTRIBUTING POINT.
Las Vegas is the distributing point for
early all New Mexico. By the Atchison
ystem, she has connection with Kansas on
be east, Colorado on the north. Arizona
md California on the west, and Texas and
I'D Mexico on the south. Besides these,
he has moro stage lines, connecting her
With tributsry territory, than has any
town in New Mexico. Inis territory :
the entire section east and south
L the mountains, and comprises the coun-
les of Colfax. Mora, Taos, San Miguel,
Innta Fe, Socorro, DofIa Ana, Grant,
,haves, Lincoln and Eddy, with psrts OF ,
~alencis and Bernalillo=a country larger 6
han all New England. This takes IN the
amous Valley Of the Rio Grande and the !
,ss famous, but not less excellent, Valley I
I the Pecos-the finest fruit sections OF
40 west. f.
TERRITORIAL WEALTH.
This Territory is rich in every thing that
institutes the wealth OF nations. Iron.
bal, lead, silver, gold, mica, limestone, :
Indstore, marbles, gypsum, soda, in end O
80 variety and ~exhaustless quantities, a
among the several products of the h
,untry which Las Vegas commands. a
b, ep, cattle and lumber abound, so that a
each Of these prime articles OF com Il
cree this city IL the best market Ia New RI
sxico. She handles moro wool than all n
. other towns in the Territory combined. b
bile her commerce in hides is truly enor-
nus. Ia the same way, she stands pre- .
ninsnt for her trade 10 grains, hay ,veget- y
aud other farm productsI while her "
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