Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-15
THIS LOCALITY
Las Vegas the Chief City
Of New Mexico Some
of Her Resources,
Attractions and
Advantages.

LAS VEGAS is 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 as no malaria. no excessive heat or
cold, no gnats, rats or mosquitoes. ine
AIR 10 pure, dry, rarihed, and highly cleo
triied-a certain cure for consumption. IL
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 hostelry between
Chicago n California. and 10 situated In
a beautiful canyon, five miles from town.,
whore the Hot Springs. forty In number,
come boiling to thu surface.
The latitude is about the same as hat 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, 10 the shade, below forty de-
grees. while 1t often runs, In the sunshine,
to sixty- degrees-or even more. On
the 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, 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 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. TIT percentage OF
death from consumption 10 lower In New
| Mexico than it is anywhere else in the
| United States; and no other place 10 New
| Mexico excels Las Vegas In the ~salubrity
of It's climate. Asthmatlcs experience
Immediate n permanent relief, In thia
| altitude.
In the way Of health and pleasure re-
sorts, Las Vegas is unrigaled. In a radius
| OF twenty miles, In romantic mountain
| glens and beside babbling mountain brooks,
| are the Las Vegas Hot Springs. Harvey's,
| Ell Porvenir, Sandoval's Mineral Hill, Ro-
| nero Ranch, Blake's, Sparks, Sapello,
| Rociada, and other places, too Numerous
| 10 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, a number Of clubs,
and all the leading civic and social socie-
ties; a roller fiour mill, capacity, fifty bar
rels per day two wool-scouring establish
ments, cleaning 100000 pounds of wool
annually, a well.equipped brewery and
bottling establishments; a manufactory OF
mineral and c~arbonated waters; two wag-
on and carriage factories; a saddle and
harness factory; q foundry. 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, q 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 than dc
the retail merchants OF any other town In
this Territory or Arizona.