Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-05
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 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. lne
air Is pure, dry, rarided, and highly cleo
trifed-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, and is situated In
a beautiful canyon, five 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-f1ve degrees-or even more. On
the other hand, in the summer. the heat IS
never oppressive, In the shade, end 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 roma,
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 a balm to all diseases of the
respiratory organs. The percentage of
death from consumption is lower in New
Mexico thar it is anywhere else in the
United States; and no other place in New
of its climate. Asthmatlcs experience
immediate and permanent relief, in this
altitude.
In the way of health and pleasure re-
sorts, Las Vegas is unrivaled. In a radius
Of twenty miles, in romantic mountain
glens and beside babbling mountain brooks,
are the Las Vegas Hot Springs. Harvey's,
Ell Poryenir, sendovsl's Mineral Hill, Ro-
nero Ranch, Blake's, Sparks, SapellO,
Rociada, and other places, too Numerous
to mention, where health can be recovered,
and life becomes q pleasure TO the ennuye,
the invalid, the over-worked business man.
LAS VReAs has two daily and i've weekly
papers. three banks, two building n loan
associations, three hotels, many boarding
houses, niue Churches, u NUMBER OF CluD6.
and all the leading civic and social socie-
ties; aroller -four mill, capacity. fifty bar
rels per day two wool-scouring establish
raents. cleaning $4,000 0 pounds of wool
annually a we'll equipped brewery and
bottling establishment; a mandatory of
mineral aud carhonated waters; two wag-
on and carriage factories; a saddle and
harness factory; q foundry. 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, aud into che adjoining sections
while tho Volume Of this trade. and the
value OF the stocks which they carry, can
iaot ia dnnlicntad west OF Kansas Gitv and
OF Denver. Three merchants brok-
ers rave selected the city as their distrib-
uting center, the amount OF their yearly
sales exceeding, in theaggregate, the COM
bined sales OF all other such brokers in
New Mexico. The retail merchants, OF
Las Vegas, are more numerous, and carry
larger and better stocks of goods than do
the retail merchants OF any other town in
this Territory or Arizona.