Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-10
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
ural advantages than any other place 10
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. Ice
air is pure, dry, rarihed, and highly cleo
trified-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 hosiery between
Chicago and California, and is situated 10
q beautiful canyon, five miles from town,
where the Hot Springs, forty in number,
come boiling to the surface.
The latitude Is shout 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-fve 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 viii
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 Ia
the air, the consequent ozone, result |
ing from thealtitude; and tine location of the |
town, land locked by mountain and mesa
all conspire to produce an atmos-
phere which Is a balm TO all diseases OF the |
death from consumption is lower 10 New
than II Is anywhere else In the
States; szd ~ csLer place In New |
Mexico excels Las Vegas in the salubrity
Of Its climate. AsthmatIcs experience /!
and permanent relief, In this
In the way Of health and pleasure re-
,orts, Las Vegas IL unrivaled. In q radius
of twenty miles, In romantic mountain
zleBs and beside babbling mountain brooks. |
IRE the Las Vegas Hot Springs. Harvey's,
Porvenir, Sandoval's Mineral Hill, Ro-
nero Ranch, Blake's, Sparks, Sapello,
.ociada, and other places, too Numerous
20 mention where health can be recovered.
life becomes q pleasure to the ennuye,
The invalid, the over worked business man.
LAS VEGAS has two daily and i've weekly
,apers, three banks. two building and loan
associations, three hotels. many boarding
nine churches, o number OF clubs,
and ali the leading civic and social socie-
lies; a roller -four mill, capacity, fifty bar
-els per day two wool-scouring establish
nents, cleaning 100000 pounds OF wool
annually; a l-equipped brewery and
establishment; a mandatory of
and carbonated waters; two wag-
IN and carriage factories; a saddle and
harness factory; a foundry. cleo
light plant, three planning mills.
ind other enterprises of less Importance.
There are eight large wholesale houses,
whose trade extends throughout the Ter.
'itory, and into the adjoining sections;
the volume Of this trade. and the
yalue Of the stocks which they carry, can
lot be duplicated west Of Kansas City and
Iouth Of Denver. Three merchants brok-
'rs have selected the city as their distrib-
ting center, the amount OF their yearly
ales exceeding, in the aggregate, the COM
ined sales of all other such brokers In
Jew Mexico. The retail merchants, of
4as Vegas, are more numerous, and carry
and better stocks .Qf goods than do
he retail merchants or any other town in
bis Territory or Arizona.