Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-01-12
LOCALITY.
Las Vegas the Chief City
of New Mexico Some
of Fier 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 10 no malaria, no excessive heat or
cold, no gnats, rats or mosquitoes. The
air is pure, dry, rariied, and highly cleo
triHedZa certain cure for consumption, II
the disease be taken In time. The hot
waters are . specific for liver, skin, rheu-
matte and blood disorders. Her Montezu-
ma hotel Is the finest h~ostelry between
Chicago and California, and Is situated In
a beautiful canyon, five miles from town,
| where the Hot Springs, forty In numbsr,
| come boiling to the surface. .
The latitude 10 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
grees, while 1t often runs, In the sunshine,
to sixty-ive degrees-or even more. On
| the other hand, in the summer, the heat 10
never oppressive, In the shade, and no
nigAt is too warm for c0rnfurtubfU sf5rp,
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 hlTs Chub0u Oy ~ VI oh6ak up
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 conspire to produce an atmos-
phere which is q balm to all diseases OF the
death from consumption Is lower in New
Mexico than II is anywhere else In the
United States; and no other place In New
Mexico excels Las Vegas in the salubrity
of its climate. Asthmatics experience
immediate and permanent relief, in thii
altitude.
In the way of nealth and pleasure re-
sorts, Las Vegas il unrivaled. In q radiu'
of twenty miles, in romantic mountain
plens aud 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 nomeroui
to mention, where health can pc recovered
and life becomes a pleasure to the ennuye
the invalid, the over-worked business man
LAS VEGAS has two daily and dive weekly
papers, three banks, two building and LOAF
associations; three hotels. many boarding
houses, nine churches, Q number OF clubs
and all the leading civic and social socie
: ties; a roller -four mill, capacity, nifty bar
/, rels per day two understanding establish
; ments, cleaning 1,50O, 900 pounds of woo
0 annually; a well-equipped orewery an
q bottling establishment; q mandatory Q
mineral and carbonated watersi two wag
90 and carriage factories; a saddle an
I trio light plant, three planning mill
and other enterprises Of less importance.
, There are eight large wholesale house,
whose trade extends throughout the Tel
ritory, and into the adjoining section:
while the volume Of this Trade, and I'll
Il value Of tie stocfs Which they Carry, ca
, not be duplicated west OF Kansas City an
. south of Denver. Three merchants brol
ers have selected the city as their distrit
: utipg center, the amount OF their year.
i sales exceeding, in the aggregate, the CON
biued sales of all other such brokers
new Mexico. The retail merchants, {
Las Vegas. are more numerous, and carr
larger and better stocks 81 goods than Z
Ia this Territory or Arizona.
LAS VEGAS is the distributing point K
nearly all New Mexico. By the Atehiso
system, she has connection with Kans'
~ on the east, Colorado on the north, Aztec
ma and California on the west, and Text
I and Old Mexico on the souths Beside
these, she has more stage lines, %connectin
ner with tributary territory, than has an
other town in New Mexico. This territor
10 Includes the entire section east INT scout
Of the mouotains, ana comprises the couI
ties Of Colfax, Mora, Taos, San Migue
Santa Fe, Socorro, Dona Ana, Gran
Cbaves, Lincoln and Eddy. with parts
! Valencia and Bernalillo--a country larg'
= than all New England. This takes in Il
L. famous Valley ofthe Rio Grande, and Il
&. less famous, but lot less excellent, Vale
of the Pecos-the finest fruit sections
= the west.
!, This Territory is rich in everything tn
constitutes the Wealth Of Nations. Iro
or coal, lead, silver, gold, mica, limeston
10 sandstone. marbles, gypsum, soda in en-
e ess variety and e~xhaustless quantitie
o. are among the several products OF t
OF country which Las Vegas command
Sheep, cattle and lumber abound, so To
in each of these prime articles of CONNER
this city is the best market in New Mexlt
m Size handles more wool than all the 9th
10 towns in the Territory combined, VIII
a her in hides is truly enormol
70 In the same way, she stands pre-emine
~ for her trade in grains, hay, vegetable
a. and other farm products; while her ira
at 10 ice, gathered in the neighboring mou
IN tain canyons, extends east into Kans
vest iato Arizona, and south into {
FOR Mexico.