Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-17

Las Vegas the Chief City
of New Mexico Some
of Her Resources,
Attractions and
Advantages.

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LAS VEGAS Is the natural sana.orium OF
the United States. combining more nat
ural advantages than any other place In
| America. Her thermal waters are the
eoaal OF the Hot Springs OF Arkansss
| while her climate 10 infinitely superior
There Is no malaria. NO excessive heat OF
cold. no enats, rats or mosquitoes. Los
air Is pure, dry, rariied, and highly cleo
tri6ed-a certain cure for consumption. ~
the disease be taken Ia time. The not
waters are. a specific for liver. skin, rheu-
matte and blood disorders. Her hontezu-
ma hotel Is the inest hostelry bstween
Chicago and California. and is sieuated In
a beautiful y .Hve miles from town,
where the Hot Springs, forty In number,
come boiling 20 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 10
grees, while IL often runs, In the sunsnines
70 s,xtv-sve deVrees-or even more. On
the other hand, In the summer. tho heat 10
never oppressive, n the shade, and no
NIGHT ia 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 ynes OF
: the air, caused by the very slight precipi-
tation OF moistnre; the r~esinous aroma,
! rolling down from the pine-ciad noun
; talns: the large amount OF electricity 10
) the air. and the consequent ozone, result
ing from theaItitude; and the location OF tne
+ town, land-locked by mountain and mess
y - N -~un-lal IN nFGdnnA nm AIm0N-
: phere which Is 4 balm 60 all diseases OF. The
Y respiratory organs. The percentage o.
: death from consumption 10 lower In New
: Mexico b It is anywhere else In tns
United States; and 20 other place 10 New
0 Mexico excels Las Vegas 10 the ~seiuDrt,
immediate and permanent relief, In thii
In The way of health and pleasure re
4 sorts, Las Vegas Is uuriveled. In Q radin
OF twenty miles, In omanti mountain
glens and beside babhling mountain oroo.s
ri Porvenir, Sandoval's Mineral BILL, no
nero Ranch, Blake's, Sparks, Sapelio
. Rociadn, and other places, too namerou
: to mention where health can be
- and life becomes a pleasure to the ennuye
,e the invalid, the business usn
a Las VEGAS has two daily and hve week..
papers. three banks. two building and LOAF
II associations. three hotels. many boarding.
D. houses, nine churches, q number OF clubs
and all the leading civic and social socie
:. tiss. a roller -four mill, capacity, fifty bar
- rels per day two wool-scouring establish
10 ments, cleaning 100000 pounds OF woo
IN annually; q we'll equipped brewery an
"A bottling establishment; q mandatory Q
= mineral and carbonsted waters; TWO wag
:. on and carriage factories; q saddle an
j. harness factory: q foundry. cleo
trio light plant, three planning mili'
|, and other enterprises OF less Importance.
y There are eight large Wholesale housed
W Whose trade extends throughout the Ter
ritory. and into the adjoining sections
2 while the volume Of this trade. and To
value OF the stocks which they carry, ca
" mot be duplicated west Of Kansas City an
= south of Denver. Three merchants bros
ers have selected the city as their distrit
: uting center, the amount OF their yeari
:. sales exceeding, in the aggregates, the CON
to bined sales OF all other such brokers !
Is New Mexico. The retail merchants, {
Las Vegas, are more numerous, and carr
larger and better stocks OF goods than q
nt the retail merchants OF any other town
this Territory or Arizona.