Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-01-06

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 Of
the United States, combining more nat
nral 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. The
ar 10 pure, dry, rarifed, and highly cleo
trifed-a certain cure for consumption, II
che disease be taken In time. The hot
waters are O specific for liver. skin, rheu-
uatic and blood disorders. Her Montezu-
ma hotel Is the finest hostelry between
Chicago and California, aud is situated Ia
a beautiful canyon, five miles from town,
whore the Hot Springs, forty 10 number,
come boiling to the surface.
The latitude 10 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 falls3 Ia the shade, below forty de-
grees, while II often runs, in the sunshine,
10 sixty-five degrees-or even more. On
he other hand, In the summer, the heat is
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, -b e very light precipi.
tation of mdr the resinous aroma,
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 IN atmos-
pbere which is q balm to all diseases of the
respiratory organs. The percentage of
death from consumption 10 lower In New
Mexico than 1t is anywhere else In the
United States; and no other place In Now
Mexico excels Las Vegas in the salubrlty
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 q radius
OF twenty miles, In romantic mountain
glens and beside babbling mountain brooks,
are the Las Vegas Hot Springs, Harvey's,
Ell P%orvenir, Sandoval'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 ennuye,
the invalid, the over-worked business man.
LAS VEGAS has two daily and ave weekly
papers, three banks, two building and loan
associations, three hotels, many boarding
houses, nine churches, q number of clubs,
n all the leading civic and social socie-
ties; a roller 1our mill, capacity, fifty bar
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ments, cleaning ! 5000 0 pounds of wool
annually; a w~ell-equlpped brewery and
bottling establishment; q mandatory Of
mineral and c~arbonated waters; two wag-
on and carriage factories; a saddle and
harness factory; "a foundr.S 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, and into the adjoining sections;
while the volume of this trade. and the
value of the stocks which they carry, can
not 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
New Mexico. The retail merchants, of
Las Vegas, are more numerous, and carry
larger and better stocks Of goods han do
the retail merchants OF any other town in
this Territory or Arizona.
LAS VEGAS is the distributing point for
nearly all New Mexico. By the Atchlson
system, she has connection with Kansas
on the east, Colorado on 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
other town in New Mexico, This territory
lnCAu0CS II ~ ocCtAOn Caot anu bOubu
of the MOUNTAINS, and comprises the coun-
ties of Colfax, Mora, Taos, San Miguel,
Santa Fe, Socorro, Dona Ana, Grant,
Chaves, 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 the
less famous, but not less excellent, Valley
of the Pecos-the finest fruit sections Of
the west.
This Territory Is rich In everything that
constitutes the Wealth of Nations. Iron,
coal, lead, silver, gold, mica, limestone,
sandstone. marbles, gypsum, soda in end
ess variety and exhaustless quantities, |
are among the several products of the
country which Las Vegas commands. |
Sheep, cattle and lumber abound, 30 that
in each of these prime articles Of commerce |
this city is the best market in New Mexico.
She handles more wool than all the other |
towns in the Territory combined, while
her in hides is truly enormous. |
In the same way, she stands pre-eminent
for her TRACE in grains, hay, vegetables,
and other farm products; while her trade
in ice, gathered In the neighboring noun
tain canyons, extends east into Kansas,
west iato Arizona, and south into Old
Mexico