Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-18
THIS LOCALITY
Las Vegas the Chief City
of New Mexico Some
of Her Resources,
Attractions and
Advantages.

LAS VEGAS IL the natural sanatorium o
the United States, combining more nat
ural advantages than any other place II
America. Her thermal waters are tn
equal of the Hot Springs OF Arkansas
while her climate is Infinitely superior
There Is no malaria, no excessive heat O.
cold, no gnats, rats or mosquitoes. In,
air Is pure, dry, rarinsd, and highly cleo
triied-a certain cure for consumption, l
the disease be taken In time. The no
waters are q specific for liver. skin, rheu,
matte aud blood disorders. Her Montexu.
ma hotel Is the finest hostelry between
Chicago and California, and is situated ID
q beautiful canyon, five 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 6.500 feet. This combination gives
O peculiar, but most happy, result. In the
seldom falls, In the shade, below forty de-
grees, while IL often runs, In the sunshine,
to sixty-five degrees-or even more. On
the other hand, In the summer. the heat Is
nsyer oppressive, In the shade, aud no
night je too warm for comfortable sleep,
under one or two blankets. The sun Will
shine nine days out Of every ten, the year
This. with the extreme 9ryness Of
the air, caused by the very slight precipi-
tation of moisture; the resinous aroma,
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
all conspire to produce an atmos-
phere which Is q balm to all diseases OF the
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 Ia New
Mexico excels Las Vegas In the salubrity
OF Its climate, Asthmetics experience
Immediate n permanent relief, In this
altitude.
In the way OF. health and pleasure re-
sorts, Las Vegas 10 unrivsled. In . radius
of twenty miles, In romantic mountain
glens and beside babbliug mountain brooks,
are the Las Vegas Hot Springs, Harvey's,
FL Porvenir, Sandoval's Mineral Hill, Ro-
nero Ranch, Blake's, Sparks, Sapello,
Rccieda, and other places, too numerous
TO mention where health can be recover ed,
and life becomes q 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. thres hotals, many boarding
houses, nine churches, Q number OF clubs,
and all the leading civic aud social socie-
ties; q roller four mill, capacity. fifty bar
rels per day two wool-scouring establish
ments, cleaning 1,500.0O 0 pounds Of wool
annually; q weli-equipped brewery and
bottling establishment; q mandatory OF
mineral and carbonated waters; two wag-
and carriage factories; a saddle and
harness factory; a foundry. cleo
trio light plant, three planning mills,
and other enterprises Of less Importance.
Thgfe-ar eight large Wholesale houses,
whose trade extends throughout the Ter
and into the sdioining sections
while the volume Of this trade, ard the
valus Of the stocks which they carry, can
not be duplicated west of Kansas City and
south Of Denver, Three merchants brok-
ers have selected the city az their distrib-
uting center, the amount Of their yearly
sales exceeding, in the aggregate, the com
sales Of all other such brokers In
New Mexico. Ths retail merchants, OF
Las Vegas, are more numerous, and carry
and better stock of goods than do
the retail merchants OF any other town in
this Territory or Arizona.