Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-09-06

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IL the county seat OF San Miguel county,
lies on both rides OF the Gallinas river, and
With its suburbs, has about 10000 inhab.
itants.
a LAS VEGAS INDUSTRIES.
II has water-works, street cars, arc and |
incandesceDt electric light plant, telephone |
exchanges, Territorial agri cultural expert
tnsnt station, headquarters OF the Atchison
railway system, New Mexico division, to- |
gsther With railroad machine shops and
tis- preserving works, stock yards, and the
largest sheep .shearing and dipping plant
in the United States !
BEAUTIFUL PICTURESQUE.
West Of the river, the old town has the
quaint and picturesque Mexican appear
ance adobe houses, narrow, crooked
streets, native people and customs, handi- |
crafts and occupations; but the plaza |
and all OF the new town, east OF
tue river, constitute q distinctiye
American city, The streets are wide anu
we'll graded, while sidewalks abound, |
shaded with growing trees. Three parks, /
llied with grass and trees, add TO the
beauty and healtbfulness of the place
Handsome and well. fiji ed stores, beautiful
! sssdences, and fnnumerable lawns, set in
grass and adorned with shrubbery and
nowsrs, combine to proclaim a cultured
community, possessed OF all modern COM
forts aud convsDiences.
UBLIc N EDUCATIONAL BUILDINGS.
A city hall, three public scn,oof- build
logs, ourt-housc, Masonictemple, Opera
house, Territorial Normal school, Terrific
rial Insane asylum, are public buildings,
constructed of rcd and white cut sand
atone. unsurpassed 10 beauty by similar
sdidces in any town, Of equal size, In the
statss
An Academy, Seminary, Jesuit college,
Lonvent school, Presby terisn Mission
school, Methodist Manual Training
school, Christian Brothers. institute, City
a Kindergarten and two Music schools,
besides, several private teachers are among
the cd ucational advantages.
SANITARY ADVANTAGES.
Las Vegas la the natural Sanitarium of
the United S%tste,, combining more nat-
ural advantages Than any other place in
America. Hsr 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 c0ld-no
xnats, rats or mosquitoes. The air is pure,
dry, rari1ed and highly electriied-a Ger
taiu cure for consumption, il the disease
Oh taken in time. The hot waters are a
specific for liver, skin. rheumatic n
olOod ditoiders. Her Montezuma hotel is
The finest bostelry between Chicago n
California, and Is situated in q beautiful
cany on, tive miles from town, whore the
not dvrings, forty in number, come boiling
TO the surface.
LATITUDE AND ALTITUDE.
The Latitude lie about the same as that OF
central Tennessee, while tho altitude is
nearly $500 feet, This combination gives
u peculiar, but most happy, result. In the
winter, during the day, the thermometer
teldom fails, in the shade, below 400, while
It Olsen runs, in the sunshine, to 65o-or
sven more. On the other hand, In the
summer the heat IL never oppressive, in
the shade, and no Light il too warm for
comforteb bic sleep, under one or two blank
cts. Ths sun Will ahine nine days OUT of
every ten, the year round. This, with tn
extreme DRY ness of the air, CAUSED by the
very slight precipitation OF moisture; the
resinous arcane rolling down from the
pine-clad mountains; the large amount Of
electricity In the air, and the consequent
ozone resulting from the attitudes; and the
location OF the town, land locked by noun
tain and ~mesa-these all conspirs to pro-
duce an atmosphere which Is a balm to all
diseases OF the respir6 organs. The
percentage of death from consumption is
lower Ia New mexico than 1t is any where
else in the United SEates; and no other
place In New Mexico excels Las Vegas in
tho ~salubrity of It's climate. Asthmatics
experience innediats aud permanent re-
lief In :his altitude.
HEALTH AND PLEASURE
In the way OF health aud pie asure re-
sorts, Las Vegas ID unrival-d. Ia a radius
OF twenty mills, in romantic mountain
glens and beside bnbtlins mountain brooks,
are Las We as HIT Springs, Harvoy's, Ell
Porvenir. S~andovai's, Mineral Hill, Rome
-. n.-.l li,raty Snarhc5 Aanaiin Rnci-I
ada and other places, too numerous to
mention, where health can be recovered,
and life becomes u pleasure to the ennuye,
the invalid, the over-worked business man.
NEWSPAPERS, MANUFACTURES, ETC.
Las Vegas has two daily and five weekly
three banks; two building
and loan associations; three hotels, and
many boarding houses; nine churches; q
number OF clubs, and all the leading civic
and social societies a roller flour mill, Ca.
pacity, fifty barrels a day; two wool
securing establishments, cleaning 1,5C0,0 900
pounds OF wool annually; a manutacJ.ry
of mineral and carhonated waters; two
wagon and csrriags factories; a saddle
AM harness factory; electric light plant;
three planning mills; two cigar manufacto.
ries, and other enterprises Of less import
ance.
There are eight large wholesale houses,
trade extends throughout the Trrrt
tory and into the adjoining sections, while
the volume OF this trade, and the values OF
the stocks they carry, can not be dupiicat-
ed W est OF Kansas City and south of Den
yer. Three merchants brokers have se-
lectsd this city rs their distributing center,
the amount Of their yearly sales exceed
ing, in the aggregate, the combined sales
of all other such brokers in New Mexico.
The retail merchants OF Las Vegas are
more numerous. and carry larger and bet
ter stocks of goods than do the retail mer-
Of any other town in this Territory
or Arizona.
THE DISTRIBUTING POINT.
Las Vegas is the distributing point for
nearly all New Mexico. By the Atchison
she has connection with Kansas on
the east, Colorado on the north. Arizona
and California on the west, npd Texas and
Mexico on the south. Besides these,
tributsry territory, than has any
other Town in New Mexico. This territory
The entire section east and south
the NJ, uutsins, and comprises the coun-
of Colfax, Mora, Taos, San Miguel,
Santa Fe. Socorro, Done Ane, Grant,
Chaves, Lincoln and Eddy, with parts OF
' a~lencia and Bernalillo-a country larger
han all New England. This takes in the
lam ,us Valley of the Rio Grande and the
ess famous. but not less excellent, Valley
II the Pecos-the finest fruit sections of
he west.
TERRI toRIAL WEALTH.
ibis Territory is rich in every thing that
the wealth of nations. Iron.
,oal, lead, silver, gold, mica, limestone,
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