Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-01-08
THIS LOCALITY
Las Vegas the Chief City
of New Mexico Some
of Her Resources,
Attractions and
Advantages.

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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, rats or mosquitoes. The
air is pure, dry, rariied, and highly cleo
trified--a certain cure for consumption, IL
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
n DISQUALIFICATION, Eve 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
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-five 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
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
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-
phere which is 3 balm to all diseases of the
respiratory organs. The percentage OF
death~from consumption Is lower In New
Mexico than II is any where else In the
United States; and no other place In New
Mexico excels Las Vegas in the salubrlty
of its climate. Asthmatics experiences
immediate and permanent relief, In this
altitude.
In the way of health and pleasure re-
sorts, Las Vegas is unrivaled. In . radius
OF twenty miles, In romantic mountain
glens and beside babbling mountain brooks,
are the Las Vegas Hot Springs, Harvey's,
| Eel Poryenir, Sandoval's Mineral Hill, Ro-
nero Ranch, Blake's, Sparks, Sapeilo,
Rociada, and other places, too numerous
to mention, where health can be recovered,
and life becomes a pleasure to the ennuys,
the invalid, the over-worked business man.
Las VEGAS has two daily and dive weekly
pape-5, three banks, two building and loan
associations, three hotels. many boarding
houses, nine churches, q number OF clubs,
aud all the leading civic and social socie-
ties a roller -four mill, capacity, fifty bar
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ments, cleaning 1,50O,00 0 pounds of wool
annually; a we'll equipped brewery and
bottling establishment; a mandatory OF
mineral and Garbonated waters; two wag-
on and carriage factories; a saddle and
harness factory; a foundIJ 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, and 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 IL
New Mexico. The retail merchants, oil
Las Vegas, are more numerous, and carry
larger and better stocks of goods than dc
the retail merchants OF any other town IN
this Territory or Arizona.
LAS VEGAS is the distributing point fol
nearly all New Mexico. BY the Atchlsor
system, she has connection with Kansai
on the east, Colorado on the north, Arizo'
ma and California on the west, and Texa'
and Old Mexico on the south. BesideI
these, she has more stage lines, connecting
her with tributary territory, than has any
other own In New Mexico. This territory
includes the entlre SeculOn east anu sOutt
of the mountains, aud comprises the coun'
ties Of Colfax, Mora, Taos, San Miguel
Santa Fe, Socorro, Dona Ana, Grant
Cha<es, Lincoln and Eddy with parts o
Valencia and Bernalillo-a country large
than all New England. This takes in tn
famous Valley ofthe Rio. Grande, and tn
less famous, but not less excellent, Vale,
of the Pecos-the finest fruit sections o
the west.
This Territory is rich In everything tina
constitutes the Wealth Of Nations. Iron
coal, lead, silver, gold, mica, limestone
sandstone. marbles, gypsum, soda In end
ess variety and exhaustless quantities
are among the several products OF tn
country which Las Vegas commands
Sheep, cattle and lumber abound, 30 tina
in each OF these prime articles of commerc
this city Is the best market In New Mexico
She handles more wool than all the othe
towns in the Territory combined, Will
her commerce In hides Is truly enormous
In the same way, she stands pre-eminen
for her trade in grains, hay, vegetables
and other farm products; while her trad
In ice, gathered In the ~neighboriug noun
tain canyons, extends east into Kansa,
west jnto Arizona, and south into OF
Mexico