Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-05-25
8 THIS LOCALITY
Las Vegas the Chief City
of New Mexico--Some
of Her Resources,
Attractions and
Advantages.

LAS VEGAS Is the natural sanatorium OF
the United States, combining more nat
ural advantages than any other place in
America. Her thermal waters are the
equal of the Hot Springs of Arkansas
| while her climate is infinitely superior.
There is no malaria, no excessive heat or
cold, no gnats,s rats or mosquitoes. Ine
air Is pure, dry, rarified, and highly cleo
| trifed-a certain cure for consumption, II
| the disease be taken in time. The hot
| waters are q specific for liver. skin, rheu-
| matte and blood disorders. Her Montezu-
! ma hotel Is the finest hosiery between
Chicago and California, and is situated In
q 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 is
nearly $500 feet. This combination gives
q 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-dve 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 one or two blankets. The sun will
shine nine days out of every ten, the year
4 round. This, with the extreme dryuess 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 conspirs to produce an atmos-
| phers which 10 q balm to all diseases Of the
respiratory organs. The percentage OF
1 1~-kt f~o~n - ~ ~ kf1n t. IArA. a.. NA.-,
| 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. In q radius
Of twenty miles, In romantic mountain
glens aud beside babbliug mountain brooks,
| are the Las Vegas Hot Springs. H~arvey's,
FL Porvenir, Sandoval,s Mineral Hill, Ro-
nero Ranch, Blake's. Sparks, Gapello,
Rociada. and other places, too Numerous
TO mention, where health can be recovered,
and life becomes o 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, q number OF clubs,
and all the leading civic and social socie-
ties; a roller dour mill, capacity, fifty bar
Eels per day two understanding establish
msnts, cleaning 1905 900 pounds of wool
annually; q w~ell-equipped brewery and
bottling establishments; q mandatory OF
mineral and carboneted waters; two waR-
on and carriage factoriesj q 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, dnd into the adjoining seetions
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 merchants' hrok-
ers have selected the city as their distrib-
utinR center, the amount Of their yearly
sales exceeding, in the aggregate, the SOM
bined sales OF ell other such brokers Ia
New Mexico The retail merchants, OF
Las Vegas, are more numerous, and earry
larger and better stocks Of goods than do
the retail mefohents Of any other town in
this TeHEerry Or AriEopa.