Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-09-10
NEW MEXICO CITY
Her Resources and Attractions
Brief Summary Of Her
Advantages.

hOr resources anu AttTACtlOhbT-~
Brief Summary of Her
Advantages.
LAS vxsAs. meaning 1.-THE Meadows"
Is tho county seat OF San Miguel county,
lies on both sides OF the Gallinas river, and
with it, Auburbs, has about 10000 inhab-
itants. q
Las VEGAS INDUSTRIES.
II has water works, street cars, arc and
incandsscsDt electric light plant, telephone
exchanges, Territorial agricultural expert
ment station, headquarters Of the Atchison
railway system, New Mexico division, to-
gsthsr With railroad machine shops and
tis-pressr wing works, stock yards, and the
largest shssp. shearing and dipping plant
IN the United States |
lEAuTIyuL AND PICTURESQUE.
West OF the river, the old town has the
quaint and picturesque Mexican appear
ance - adobe houses, narrow, crooked
streets, native people and customs, handi-
crafts and occupations; but the plaza
and all of the new town, east OF
the river, constitute distinctive
American city, The streets are wide and
we'll graded, while sidewalks abound,
shaded with growing trees. Three parks,
l uiitQ Wttu XIn5U wuu JIeGhs UQu w tno
beauty and heslthfulnsss Of the place.
Handsome and well filled stores, beautiful
residences, and innumerabls lawns, set In
grass n adorned With s~hrubbery and
howsrs, combine to proclaim q cultured
community, possessed Of all modern COM
forts aud convenionces
PUBLIC AND EDUCATIONAL BUILDINGS.
A city nAli1 three pubic school build
ings, court house, Masonic temple, Opera
house, Territorial Normal school, Terrific.
rial lnssne asy lurn, are public buildings,
constructed OF red and white cut sand.
stone. unsurpassed III beauty by similar
sdifces in any town, OF equal size, In the
stAtss
An Academy, Seminary, Jesuit college,
Convent school, Presbyterian Mission
school, Methodist Manual Training
! hieh school, thrse graded public schools,
I q kinasrgartsn aud two Music schools,
besides, several private teachers are among
the educational advantages.
aasEza SANITARY ADVANTAGES.
Las Vegas 10 the natural Sanitarium OF
the United States, combining more nat
. ural advantages than any other place in
America. Her thermal waters are the equal
[ or this Hot Springs Uf Arkausas, while her
climate Is INFINITELY superior. There rs no
malaria, NO excessive heat or cold-no
y ku1tey AUtb VI mOcQhttO0o. ~ al II RdA0
dry, rarined and highly elect ified-a GER
lain cure for consumption, II the disease
: specific for liver, Toe hot waters are q
? blood disoi ders. Her M~ontezuma'i lie and
!, the inest h~ostelry between Chicago AMI
. California, and is situated ia q beautiful
cany on, tivs mics from town, wnere thu
not springs, forty 10 number, come boiling
. 20 the surface.
o LATITUDE AND ALTITUDE.
- TIKI I,tf,rIo l.. N Il ,,r tha SAW N n g fI,a nj
4 central Tennessee, while the attitude |.
). nearly $500 feet, This combination give,
a . peculiar, Dus most happy, result. In the
winter, during the day the thermometel
seldom fails, In the shade, below 4O9, while
p IL Olsen runs, in the sunshine, to 65o-ol
even more. On the other hand, III thu
summer the heat is never oppress ive, Ii
the shade, and no Light is too warm fol
RI comfortable sleep, under one or TWO blank
eta. Tbs sun Will shine nine days out Of
every ten, the year round. This, with tn
extreme dry ness Of the air, caused by the
very slight precipitation of molsture; the
resInCus aroma rolling down rom the
pins.ciad mountains; the large moun OF
l electricity IN the air, and this consequent
| ozone resulting from the altitude; anu the
location of The town, land locked by noun
tam and mesa-these all conspire to pro-
duce an atmosphere which is q balm TO all
diseases OF the rsspirah organs. The
percentage Of death from consumption Is
) Hover la New Mexico than IL is any " here
else in the United States; and no other
place in New Mexico excels Las Vegas in
tho EaiubrlJy OF its climate. Asthmatics
experiences Immediate aud permanent re-
lief il :his altitude.
HEALTH AND PLEASURE RESORTS.
In the way Of health and pleasure re-
sorts, Las Vegas 10 unrivaled.aIn.A radius
OF twenty mil-s, In romantic mountain
glens and beside babblin. mountain brooks,
are LAS Vegas Hot Springs, Harvsy's, Ell
Porvenir, Sandoval's, Mineral Hill, Rome
no Ranch, Biase's, Sparks, Sapelio, hoci-
ada and other places, too numerous to
mention, where health can be recovered,
and life becomes d pleasure TO the ennuye,
the invalid, the over-worked business man.
NEWSPAPERS, MANUFACTURES, ETC.
Las Vegas has two daily and i've weekly
newspapers; three banks; two boilding
and loan associations; three hotels, and
many boarding houses; nine churches; a
number of clubs, and all the leading civic
and social societies; a roller -four mill, ca.
pscity, fifty barrels a day; two wool
securing establishments, cleaning 1,500, 900
poun7s of wool annually; a manufactory
of mineral and carbonated waters; two
wagon and carriage factories; a saddle
ana harness factory; electric light plant;
three planning mills; two cigar manhfacto-
riuos @n0 Vshok outcA ~ Ao0o OA 1888 Import
anco.
There are eight large wholesale houses,
whose trade extends throughout the Terri
tory and into the adjoining sections, while
the Volume of this trade, and the vaIua2esI
ele stocks they carrY.ycanr sonth of Den
Yer. Three merchants' brokers have Sc
lected rhisc city as their distributing center,
the amount of their yearly sales exceed
ing, In the aggregate, the combined sales
| OF all other such brokers in New Mexico.
The retail merchants of Las Vegas are
more numerous, and carry larger and bet
ter stocks OF goods than do the retail msr-
chants Of any other town in this Territory
or Arizona.
THE DISTRIBUTING POINT.
Las Vegas is the distributing point for
nearly all New Mexico. By the Atchison
| system, she has connection with Kansas on
the east, Colorado on the north, Arizona
and California on tho west, and Texas and
Old Mexico on the south. Besides these,
she has more stage lines, connecting her
with. trfbutsry territory, than has any
other town In New Mexico. This territory
includes The entire section east and eouth
OF the mountains, aud comprises the coun-
ties of Colfax. Mora, Taos, San Miguel,
Santa Fe, Socorro, Dona Ana, Grant,
Chayes, Lincoln and Eddy, with parts OF
alencia and Bernaiillo-a country larger
than all New England This takes in the
famous Valley Of the Rio Grande and the