Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-01-07
THIS LOCALITY
Las Vegas the Chief City
Of New Mexico Some
of Her Resources,
Attractions and
Advantages.
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LAS VEGAS is the natural sanatorium O.
the United States, combining more nat
ural advantages than any other place II
America. Her thermal waters are tn,
equal of the Hot Springs Of Arkansas
while her climate IL infinitely superior
There 10 no malaria, no excessive heat OF
cold, no gnats, rats or mosquitoes. Tn,
air Is pure, dry, rarifed, and highly cleo.
trifed-a certain cure for consumption, Il
the disease be taken In time. The hol
waters are 0 specific for liver, skin, rheu.
matte AID blood disorders. Her Montezu.
ma hotel Is the finest hostelry between
Chicago ana California, aud Is situated 10
. beautiful canyon, five miles from town
where the Hot Springs, forty In number,
come boiling to the surface. At@'
The latitude 10 about the same as that Of
central Tennessee, while tine altitude Is
nearly $500 feet. This combination gives
q peculiar, but most happy, result. In the
winter, during the day, the thermometer
! seldom falls, In the shade, below forty de-
grees, while ii often runs, In tho sunshine,
to sixty-fve degrees-or even more. On
the other hand, In the summer, the heat 10
never oppressive, IN the shade, and 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
tains; the large amount of electricity In
the air, and tue consequent ozone, result
ing from thealtitude; and the location OF the
town, land-locked by mountain and mesa
these all conspirs to produce an atmos-
phere which Is . balm to all diseases OF the
respiratory organs. Tho percentage Of
death from consumption 10 lower In New
Mexico than 1t is anywhere else In the
United States; and 40 other place In New
Mexico excels Las Vegas In the salubrity
Of Its climate. Asthmatics experience
immediate and permanent relief, in this
altitude.
In the way of health and pleasure re-
sorts, Las Vegas is unrivaled. In . radius
OF twenty miles, In romantic mountain
9lens and beside babbling mountain brooks,
are the Las Vegas Hot Springs, Hsrvey's.
El Pcfvenir, S~andoval'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 a pleasure to the ennuys
the invalid, the over-worked business man.
LAS VEGAS has two daily and dve weekly
papers, three banks. two building and loan
associations. three hotels, many boarding
houses, nine churches, q number OF clubs,
aud all the Leading civic and social socie-
tiss; a roller -four mill, capacity, fifty bar
rels per day; WI wool-scouring establish
ments, cleaning 1,5O0,0 900 pounds of wool
annually; a well-equipped brewery and
b~ottling establishment; q mandatory Of
mineral and carbonated waters; two wsg-
on and carriage factories; a saddle and
trio light plant, three planning mills,
end other enterprises of less importance.
There are eight large wholesale houses,
whose trade extends throughout the Ter
..sfarn AnA into fhA AdfAt-fn. aAAftarn.
while the volume Of this trade. and the
value OF the stocks which they carry, can
be duplicated west of Kansas City and
south of Denver. Three merchants brok.
ers have selected the city as their distrib-
uting center, the amount of their yearly
sales exceeding, in the aggregate, the com
bined sales OF all other such brokers In
Vegas, are more numerous, and carry
and better stocks Of goods than do
the retail merchants of any other town in
Territory or Arizona.
LAS VEGAS Is the distributing point for
all New Mexico. By the Atchlson
she has connection with Kansas
on the east, Colorado or the north, Arizo-
ma and California on the west, and Texas
and Old Mexico on the south. Besides
these, she has more stage lines, connecting
her with tributary territory, than has any
town In New Mexico. This territory |
the entire section east and south
of the mountains, and comprises the coun- |
ties Of Colfax, Mora, Taos, San Miguel, |
Santa Fe, Soc0 70, DoDa Ana, Grant, |
Cbaves, Lincoln and Eddy, with parts of |
Valencia and Bernalillo--a country larger
than all New England. This takes In The
famous Valley ofthe Rio Grande, and tie |
famous, but not less excellent, Valley |
Of tue Pecos-ths finest fruit sections Of
tile west.
This Territory is rich 10 everything that
constitutes the Wealth Of Nations. Iron,
coal, lead, silver. gold, mica, limestone,
sandstone. marbles, gypsum; soda 10 end
ess var ely n ~exhaustless quantities, |
are among the several products OF the
which Las Vegas commands.
Sheep, cattle and lumber abound, 90 that
In each of these prime articles OF commerce
this city is the best market in New Mexico. |
Sue handles more wool than all the other
In the Territory combined. while
her commerce 10 hides is truly enormous.
10 the same wey, she stands pre-eminent
Tor her trade 10 grains, hay, vegetables,
and other farm products: while her trade !
Ia ice, gathered In the pe;ghboring noun
tain canyons, extends east into Kansas,
west iato Arizona, and south into Old
Mexico
The Methodist church organization
At Santa Fe, purchased from Judge
Langhlin, a desirable lot on Casper
averue, just north OF Mr.. McPherson's
resideace, paying $40 a front foot for