Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-01-15
THIS LOCALITY.
Las Vegas the Chief City
of New Mexico Some
of Her Resources,
Attractions and
Advantages.

LAS VEGAS IL the natural sanatorium ~
the United States, combining more nat
ural adYaufREes than any other place IN
America. Her thermal wat rs are the
equal OF the Hot Springs OF Arkansas,
While her climate il definitely superior.
There is no malaria, no excessive heat or
cold, no gnats, rats or mosquitoes. The
air IL pure, dry, rarified, and highly cleo
tritied-a certain cure for consumption, III
the disease be taken 80 dino The hot
waters are a spec hc fdr LIVER. kin, rneu-
matte and blood disorders. Her Montezu-
ma hotel is the finest hosiery between
Chicago and California, ID Is situated In
a beautiful canyon, five miles from town,
where the Hot Springs, forty In 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
| seldom falls, 10 the shade, below forty de-
grees, while it often runs, In the sunshine,
10 sixty-f1ve degrees-or even more. On
The other band, 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. The percentage OF
death from consumption 10 lower Ia New
Mexico than 1t Is anywhere else In the
United States; and no other place In New
Mexico excels Las Vegas in the %salubrity
II its climate. Asthmatics experience
immediate and permanent relief, In this
altitude.
In the way Of health and pleasure re-
sorts, Las Vegas IL unrivaled. In q radius
OF twenty miles, iu romantic mountain
gleBs and beside babbling mountain brooks,
are the Las Vegas Hot Springs, H~arvey's,
Ell Porvenir, 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 dive 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 -four mill, capacity, fifty bar
rels per DAY two wool-scouring establish
ments, cleaning 1900, 900 pounds OF wool
annually; a well-equlpped brewery and
bottling establishments; q mandatory of
mineral and carbonnted waters; two wag-
% and carriage factories; a saddle and
harness factory; q foundI cleo |
tric 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
vaiua of the sfopke ~ hien thay parru can
not be duplicated west Of Kansas City and
south of Denver. Three merchants brok.
ers have selected the city as their distrib-
center, the amount of their yearly
sales exceeding, in the aggregate, the com
sales of all other such brokers In
Sew Mexico. The retail merchants, OF
Las Vegas, are more numerous, and carry
larger and better stocks Of goods than do
the retail merchants OF any other town Ii
this Territory or Arizona.
LAS VEGAS is the distributing point for
nearly all New Mexico. By the Atchlson
she has connection with Kansas
on the east, Colorado on the north, Arizo-
IA and California on the west, and Texas
and Old Mexico on the south. Besides
these, she has more stage lines, connecting
ner with tributary territory, than has any
other town in New Mexico. This territory
includes the entire section east and south
Of the mountains, and comprises the coun-
VI OOiihA, mOiaf lhOet Dhn miku6i,
Santa Fe, Socorro, bona Ana, Grant,
.haves, 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
famous, but not less excellent, Valley
Of the Pecos-the finest fruit sections Of
the west.
This Territory is rich In everything that
the Wealth of Nations. Iron,
coal, lead, silver, gold, mica, limestone,
sandstone, marbles, gypsum, soda in end
sss variety and exhaustless quantities,
ire among the several products of the
which Las Vegas commands.
sheep, cattle and lumber abound, so that
n each OF these prime articles of commerce :
his city Is the best market in New Mexico.
She handles more wool than oil the other
in the Territory combined, while
Ter m In hides is truly
Ia the same way, she stands pre-eminent
or her trade in grains, hay, vegetables,
md other farm products; while her trade
n ice, gathered in the neighboriug noun \
canyons, extends east into Kansas, \
vest iato Arizona, and south into Old
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