Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-07-03

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

LAS VEGAS Is the natural sanatorium O
the United States, combining more nat
ural advantages than any other place l,
America. Her thermal waters ara thu
equal OF the Hot Springs OF Arkansas
while her climate Is infinitely superior
| There liz no malaria. no excessive heat Of
cold, no gnats, rats or mosquitoes. la,
air IS pure, dry, rerined, and highly cleo
trihed--a certain cure for consumption. u
the disease be taken In time. The hol
waters are q specific for liver. skin. rheu.
matte and blood disorders. Her Montezu-
ma hotel Is the finest hostelry between
Chicago and California, and is situated Ia
a beautiful canyon, I've miles from town
where the Hot Springs forty Ia number,
come boiling to the surface.
The latitude is about the same as that OF
central Tennessee, while tine altitude is
nearly $500 feet. This combination gives
a peculiar, but most happy, result. Id the
winter. durirg the day, the Thermometer
seldom falls. in the shade, below forty de-
grees, while it often runs, in the sunshine.
to sixty-hve degrees-or even more. On
the other hand, in the summer. tho 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 r%esinous 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 tine location OF the
town, land-locked by mountain and mesa
these all conspire to produce an atmos-
pnere which is a,balm to oil diseases OF the
respiratory organs. The percentage OF
death from consumption Ia lower Ia New
Mexico than il Is anywhere else in the
United States; and no other place Ia New
Mexico excela Las Vegas in the salubrity
OF its climate. Asthmatics experience
immediate and permanent relief, in this
altitude.
In the way of health and pleasure re-
sorts, Las Vegas IL unrivaled. In q radius
OF twenty miles, 10 romantic mountain
glens and beside babbling mountain brooks,
are the Las Vegas Hot Springs. Harvey's,
81 Porvenir, Sandovsl's Mi1eral Hill, Ro-
mere Ranch, Blake's. Sparks, Sapelo,
Rociada, and other places, too Numerous
to mention where health eau be recover cd.
and life becomes a pleasure 20 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
nine churches, a number OF clubs,
and all the leading civic and social socie-
ties; a roller -four mill. capacity. fifty bar.
rels per day two wool-scouring establish
cleaning 100000 pounds Of wool
annually; a w~eli-equipped brewery and
establishment; a mandatory of
and carbonated waters; two wag-
on and carriage factories; Q saddle and
factory; a foundIS. 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. n the
value OF the stocks which they carry, can
not be duplicated west Of Kansas City and
south of Denver. Three merchants' brok- /
srs have selected 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
Vegas, are more numerous, and carry |
and better stocks OF goods than do
The retail merchants of any other town in
Territory or Arizona.