Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-07-15
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
oral advantages than any other place In
America. Her thermal waters are the
equal of the Hot Springs OF Arkansas
while her climate ~ infuitely superior
There Is no melaria, no excessive heat or
cold, no enats, rats or MOSQUITOES. Ane
AIR IS pure, dry, rarifed, and highly cleo
triied-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 hostelry between
Chicago and California, aud Is situated IN
a beautiful canyon, Ave miles from town,
whore the Hot Springs. forty In number,
come boiling to the surface.
The latitude 10 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. In the shade. below forty de-
grees, while 1t often runs, In the sunshine,
to sixty-nve degrees-or even more. On
the other hand, In the summer, the heat 10
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 resinous aroma,
rolling down from the pine clad noun
taius: 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 a balm to all diseases OF the
respiratory organs. The percentage OF
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 saiubrity
Of it's climate. Asthmatics experienct
Immediate and permanent relief In THU
altitude.
In the way OF health and pleasure re-.
sorts, Las Vegas IL unriveled. In radius
Of twenty miles, in romantic mountain
glens and beside babbling mountain brooks
are the Las Vegas Hot Springs. Harvey's
Ell Porvenir, Sandoval's Mineral Hill, Ro'
nero Ranch, Blake's, Sparks, Sapello
Rociada, and other places, too nameroui
to MENTION where health can be recovered
and life becomes a pleasure to the ennuye
the invalid, the over-worked business man
LAS VEGAS has two daily and dve weekly
papers, three banks, two building and loaI
associations. three hotels, many boarding
houses, nine churches, q number Of clubs
aud ali the leading civic and social socie'
tiss; a roller -four mill, capacity fifty bar
rels per day; two wool-scouring establish
ments, cleaning 1,500.O00 pounds Of WOO
annually; a we'll equipped brewery ant
bottling establishments; q mandatory o.
mineral and carbonated waters; two wag.
on and carriage factories; a saddle and
harness factory; a foundry, cleo
trio light plant, three planning mills
and other enterprises of less Importance.
There are eight large wholesale houses
whoee trade extends throughout the Ter
ritory, and into the adjoining sections
while the volume of this trade. and tn
value of the stocks which they carry, cal
not be duplicated west OF Kansas City ant
south Of Denver. Three merchants' brok
ers have selected the city as their distrib
uting center, the amount of their yeari.
sales exceeding, in the aggregate, the com
bined sales of all other such brokers Il
New Mexico. The retail merchants, o
Las Vegas, are more numerous, and carr.
larger and better stocks of goods than d
, the retail merchants OF any other town l
: this Territory or Arizona.