Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-07-12

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

LAS VEaAs 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. lns
air Is pure, dry, rarifed, and highly cleo
triied-a certain cure for consumption, X
waters are q specific for liver. skin, rheu-
matte and blood disorders. Her Montexu-,
ma hotel Is the finest hostelry between
Chicago aud California, and Is situated 10
a beautiful canyon, five miles from town,
whore the Hot Springs, forty In number,
come boiling TO 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 de-
grees, while it often runs, In the sunshine,
to sixty five 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 the consequent ozone, result
ing from thealtitude; and tue location Of the
town, land-locked by mountain and mesa.
these all conspire to produce an atmos-
pnere which il a balm to all diseases OF the
respiratory organs. The percentage of
death from consumption is lower In New
Mexico than 1t Is anywhere else In the
United States; aud no other place In New
Mexico excsls Las Vegas in the salubrlty
Of its climate. Asthmatics experience
immediate and permanent relief, in this
altitude. rfa'
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 babhliug mountain brooks,
are the Las Vegas Hot Springs. Harvey's,
Ell Poryenir, Sandoval's Mineral HUI, Ro-
nero Ranch, Blake's, Sparks, Sapello,
| Rociada, and other places, too Numerous
TO mention where health can be recover ed,
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 DanKs, Two DulldinR ana loan
associations. three hotels, many boarding
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
ments, cleaning 100000 pounds Of wool
annually; a we'll equipped brewery and
bottling establishment: a mandatory Of
mineral and carbonated waters; two wag-
on and carriage factories; a saddle and
harness factory; a 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, 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 m~erchants' brok-
ers have selected the city as their distrib-
uting center, the mount of their yearly
sales exceeding, In the aggregate, the com
bined sales Of all other such brokers Ia
New Mexico. The retail merchants, OF
Las Vegas, are more numerous, and Garry
larger and better stocks of goods than do
the retail merchants or any other town in
this Territory or Arizona-