Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-02
THIS LOCALITY
Las Vegas the Chief City
of New Mexico Some
of Her Resources,
Attractions and
Advantages.

LAsVEeAs Ia the natural sanntorium 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, nc excessive heat OF
cold, no gnats, rats or mosquitoes. la
AIR is pure, dry, rarided. and highly elec-
trided-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 Montexu.
ma hotel Is the finest hosiery between
Chicago and California, aud Is situated in
q 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 il
nearly $500 feet. This combination gives
n peculiar, but most happy, result. In the
winter, during the day, the Thermometer
seldom falls, 10 the shade, below forty de-
grees, while II often runs, in the sunshine,
70 sixty-hve 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 n 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 molsture; the resinous aroma.
rolling down from the ~pine-clad noun,
tains; the large amount of electricity 10
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 . balm to oil diseases OF the
respiratory organs. The percentage OF
death FROM consumption is lower In New
Mexico than it is anywhere else In the
United States; and no other place in New
Mexico excels Las Vegas In the salubrity
OF its climate. Asthmatfcs experiences
Immediate and permanent relief, In this
altitude.
In the way Of health and pleasure re-
sorts, Las Vegas IL unriyaled. In q radius
OF twenty miles, 10 romantic mountain
glsns and beside babhling mountain brooks,
are the Las Vegas Hot Springs. Harvey's,
El Pcrvenlr, Sandovsl's Mineral Hill, Ro-
Nero Ranch, Blake's, Sparkle, Sapello.
ROciada, and other places, too Numerous
to mention, whei e health can be recovered.
and life becomes a pleasure to the ennuye,
the invalid, the o~ver-worked business man.
Las Z has two daily and dive weekly
papers, three banSs, two building and loan
associations. three hntels, many boarding
houses, nine churches, 0 number Of clubs,
and all The leading civic aud social socie.
tiss; a roller -four mill, capacity, fifty bar
reis per day; two wooi-sc0uring establiah-
meots, cleaning 100000 pounds or wool
annuallyi a ~well-equipped brewery and
botthng establishment; a mandatory OF
and carhonated waters; two wa0-
on snd carriage factories; a saddle and
harness factory; "a 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: |
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 Denver. Thraa merchants brok. |
srs have selected the city as their distrib- |
nting center, the amount OF their yearly
sales exceeding, In the aggregate, ths com
bined sales Of all other such brokers IN |
Mexico. The retail merchants, OF
Las Vegas, are more numerous, and carry
and better stocks Of goods thai do
'he retail merchants OF any other town In
his Territory or Arizona.