Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-30
THIS LOCALITY
Las Vegas the Chief City
of New Mexico Some
of Her Resources,
Attractions and
Advantages.

LAS VEGAS 10 the natural sanatorium Of
the United States. combining more nat
ural advantages than any other place Ia
America. Her thermal waters are the
equal OF the Hot Springs OF Arkansas
while her climate is infinitely superior
There 10 no malaria, no excessive heat OF
cold, no gnats, rats or mosquitoes. Int
AIR Is pure, dry, rarihed, and highly cleo
trihed-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 Montezu.
ma hotel is the finest hosteIry between
Chicago aud California, and Is situated Ia
a beautiful canyon, five miles from town,
where the Hot Springs, forty In 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
a 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 five degrees-or even more. On
the other hand, In the summer. the heat II
never oppressive, IN the shade, and &c
night is too warm for comfortable sleep
under one or two blankets. The sun will
shine nine days out OF every ten, the veal
round. This. with the extreme dryness oil
the air, caused by the very slight precipi.
tation OF moisture; the resinous aroma
rolling down from the pine-c noun.
taine; the large amount of electricity 10
the air, and the consequent ozone result.
ing from thealtitude; and the location OF the
town, land blocked by mountain and mesa
these all conspire to produce an atmos-
phere which Is a balm to all diseases OF the
death from consumption is lower In New
Mexico than 1t is anywhere else in the
| United States; and no other place In New
Mexico excels 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 Is unrivaled. 10 . radius
OF twenty miles, In romantic mountain
glens and beside babbling mountain brooks
are the Las Vegas Hot Springs. Harvey's
Eel Porvenir, Sandoval's Mineral Hill, Ro.
nero Ranch, Blake's, Sparks, Bapello,
| Rociada, and other places, too Numerous
to meption where health can be recover ed,
and life becomes a pleasure to the ennuye,
the luVullu, tu0 OttT-WOTkcu DusluobS uihu'
LAS VEGAS has two daily and Ave weekly
papers, three banks, two building n loan
associations, three hotels, many boarding
houses, 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
ments, cleaning 1,500,00 0 pounds Of wool
annually; a well-equipped brewery and
bottling establishment; q mandatory oil
mineral and carbonated waters; two wag-
on and carriage factories; q saddle and
harness factory; q 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. aud the
value of the stocks which they carry, car
not be duplicated west Of Kansas City and
south of Denver. Three merchants 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 10
New Mexico. Ths retail merchants, OF
Las Vegas, are more numerous, and carry
larger and better stocks of goods than dc
the retail merchants OK any other town In
this Territory or Arizona.