Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-02-05
THIS LOCALITY
Las Vegas the Chief City
of New Mexico Some
of Her Resources,
Attractions and
Advantages.

Las VEGAS 10 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. Ihe
| air Il pure, dry, reriHed, and highly cleo
trifed-a certain cure for consumption, II
| the disease be taken In time. The hot
waters are q specific for liver. skin, rheu-
matte and blood disorders. Her Montezu-
ma hotel Is the finest hosiery between
Chicago and California, and Is situated IN
where the Hot Springs, forty In number,
come boiling to the surface.
The latitude ~ about the same as that OF
central Tennessee. while the altitude 10
nearly $500 feet. This combination gives
q peculiar, but most happy, result. In the
winter, during the day, the thermomete
seldom falls, 10 the shade, below forty de-
erees. while II 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, ana 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 aroma,
rolling down from the pine-clad noun
taips: 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 10 lower In New
Mexico than it Is anywhere else In the
United States; and no other place In New
Mexico excels Las Vegas In the %salubrity
OF its climate. Asthmatlcs experiences
Immediate and permanent relief, In this
In the way St neas.k n pleasure 70.
of twenty miles, 10 romantic mountaln
are the Las Vegas Hot Springs. Harvey's
Ri Porvenir, Sandovaps 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 a pleasure TO the ennuye
the invalid, the over-worked business man
LAS VEGAS has two daily and dve weekly
papers, three banks, two building and LOAF
associations, three hotels. many boarding
houses. nine churches, . number of clubs
and ali the leading civic q social socie
ties; a roller -four mill, capacity. fifty bar
rels per day two wool-scouring establish
ments, cleaning 100000 pounds q woo
4 ANNUALLY q WqiN04hikPS
bottling establishments; q mandatory Q
mineral and c~arbonated waters; two wag
on and carriage factories; q saddle an
harness factory; q foundrs. cleo
trio light plant, three planning MILL
l and other enterprises Of less Importance.
There are. eight large wholesale houses
whose trade extends throughout the Ter
: ritory, and into the adjoining sections
while the volume of this trade. and tn
value of the stocks which they carry, ca
not be duplicated west of Kansas City an
' south of Denver. Three merchants broh
I ers have selected the city as their distrit
0 uting center, the amount OF their year.
sales exceeding, in the aggregate, the CON
8 New. Mexico. The retail merchants,
e Las Vegas, are more numerous, and carr
larger and better stocks OF goods than
. the retail merchants OF any other town
y this Territory or Arizona.
LAS VEGAS is the distributing point Il
nearly all New Mexico. By the Atchlse
svstem, she has connection with KansI
U on the east. Colorado on the north, Arizt
. ma and California on the west, and Tex
and Old Mexico on the south. Besid
q these, she has more stage lines connectir
: her with tributary territory, than has al
. other town In New Mexico. This territol
includes the entire section east and SOU
@ of the mountains, and comprises the coul
: ties of CoIfax, Mora, Taos, San Migut
Santa Fe, Socorro, Doua Ana, Gran
a Chaves, Lincoln and Eddy. with parts
d Valencia aud Bernalillo-a country larg
4 than all New England. This takes In Il
famous Valley ofthe Rio Grande, and q
less famous, but not less excellent, Vail
p OF the Pecos-the finest fruit sections
the west,