Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-02-04
THIS LOCALITY
Las Vegas the Chief City
of New Mexic0--Sof11e
of Her Resources
Attractions and
Advantages.

Las VEGAS 10 the natural sanatorium ol
the United States, combining more nat.
ural advantages than any other place IL
America. Her thermal waters are thu
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. The
air is pure, dry, rarified, and highly elec.
trifed--a certain cure for consumption, II
the disease be taken In time. The hot
waters are specific for liver. skin, fheu.
matte and blood disorders. Her Montezu.
ma hotel Is the finest hostelry between
Chicago and California, and is situated In
beautiful canyon, five miles from town,
where the Hot Springs, forty In number,
come boiling to the surface.
The latitude 10 about the same as that OF
central Tennessee, while the altitude ia
nearly $500 feet. This combination gives
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-fiv degrees--or even more. On
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 location of the
town, land-locked by mountain and mesa
these all conspire to produce an atmos-
phere which is balm to all diseases OF the
respiratory organs. The percentage Of
death from consumption 10 lower In New
Mexico than 1t IL anywhere else in the
United States; and no other place In New
Mexico excels Las Vegas in the salubrity
of its climate. Asthmatlcs experience
immediate and permanent relief, in this
altitude.
In the way Of health and pleasure re-
sorts, Las Vegas IL unrivaled. In radius
OF twenty miles, In romantic mountain
glens and beside babhling mountain brooks,
are the, Las Vegas Hot Springs. Harvey 9,
El Porvenir, Sandoval's Mineral Hill, Ro-
nero Ranch, Blake's, Sparks, Sapello,
Rociada, and other places, too Numerous
to mention, where health can be recovered,
and life becomes q pleasure to the ennuye,
the invalid, the over worked business man.
LAS VEGAS has two daily and Ave weekly
papers, three banks, two building and loan
associations, three hotels. many boarding
houses, nine churches, number OF clubs,
and all the leading civic and social socie-
rels per day; two wool-scouring establish
ments, cleaning 100000 pounds of wool
annually; a well-equipped brewery and
bottling establishment; . mandatory of
mineral and carbonated waters; two wag-
on and carriage factories; saddle and
harness factory; 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 the
value of the stocks which they carry, can
not be duplicated west of Kansas City and
south of Denver. Three nierchants' brok-
ers have selected the city as their distrib-
uting center, the amount Of their yearly
sales exceeding, in the aggregate, the COM
bined sales of all other such brokers In
New Mexico. The retail merchants, of
Las Vegas, are more numerous, and carry
arger and better stocks Of goods than do
the retail merchants OF any other town In
this Territory or Arizona.
LAS VEGAS Is tho distributing point for
nearly all New Mexico. BY the Atchlson
system, she has connection with Kansas
on the east, Colorado on the north, Arizo-
ma and California on the west, and Texas
and Old Mexico on the south. Besides
these, she has more stage lines, COT Meeting
her with tributary territory, than hassuy
other tow in New Mexico This territory
includes the entire section east and south
of the mountains, and comprises the cou1-
ties OF Lolfax, Mora, Taos, San Miguel,
Santa, Fe, Socorro, Dcna Ana, Grant.
Chaves. Lincoln and Eddy, with parts of
Valencia and Bernalillo--s country larger
than all New England. This takes in the
famous Valley ofthe Rio Grande, and the
less famous, but not less excellent, Valley
OF the Pecos-the finest fruit sections Of
the west