Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-05-10
THIS LOCALITY
Las Vegas the Chief city
Of New Mexico Some
of Her Resources,
Attractions and
Advantages.

LAS VEGAa Ia the natural aAnatorlum Of
the United States. combining more nat
urai 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 10 no malaria, no excessive heat or
cold, no gnats, rats or mosquitoes. The
air Is pure, dry, rariHed, and highly cleo
trihed-a certain cure for consumption, IL
the disease be taken In time. The hot
waters are a specific for liver. skin, rheu-
matte n blood disorders. Her Montezu-
ma hotel IL the finest hostelry between
Chicago and California, and Ia situated Ia
q beautiful canyon, i've 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 Tenuessee. while the altitude is
nearly $500 feet.4 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 IL often runs, In the sunshine,
to sixty five deRrees-or even more. On
the other band, In the summer, the heat Is
never oppressive, IN she shade, and no
night is too warm for comfortable sleep,
under one or two blankets. The sun will
him 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-cla 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 q balm to all diseases OF the
respiratory organs. The percentage OF
death from consumption 10 lower In New
Mexico than IT Ia any where else In the
United 5tates; and no other place 10 New
Mexico excels Las Vegas In the saiubrity
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 a radius
OF twenty miles, In romantic mountain
glens and beside babbling mountain brooks,
are the Las Vegas Hot Springs, Harvey's.
El Porvenir, S~andovaps 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 tho ennuye,
the invalid, the over-worked business man.
LAS vReAa has two daily and ave weekly
three banks. two building and loan
associations, three hotels. many boarding
houses, nine churches, q number OF clubs.
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tics; a roller -four mill, capacity, fifty bar
rels per day; two wool-scouring establish
ments, cleaning 1,500.0 900 pounds of wool
annually; a well-equipped brewery AND
bottling establishment; a mauufactory OF
and carbonated waters; two wag-
on and carriage faetorieaj q saddle and
factaryI foundry. cleo
trio light plant, three planning mills.
and other enterprises OF less Importance.
There are eight large wholesale houses,
trade extends t~bropghGlt 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
Of Denver, Three msrohants' brok
srs have selected the city as their distrib-
1ting center, the amount of their yearly
ales exceeding, In the aggregate, the com.
oire tales Of all othe such brokers in
New Mexico. Tie retail merchants, of
Las Vegas, are more numerous, and carry
arger ard better stocks OF goods taan do
;he retail msrohsDts OF any oth,r tow in
his Territory or Arixo 10.