Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-23
THIS LOCALITY
Las Vegas the Chief city
of New Mexico- -Sonie
of Her Resources,
Attractions and
Advantages. Z

LA VneAs is the natural sanatorium OF
the United States, combining more pat
ursai advantages than any other place ~
| America. Her thermal waters are tns
| equal OF the Hot Springs OF Arkansas
while ner climate Is infinitely superior
| There 10 no malaria. no excessive heat OF
cold. no enats, rats or mosauitoes. ine
AR = uure. dry, rarifled, and highly eiec-
triaed-a certain cure for consumption, u
the diaease be taken in time. The nos
waters are a specific for liver. skin, rheu-
matte and blood disorders. Her Mentezu-
ma hotel is tho finest hosiery between
chtcavo and California, and is situated In
a beautiful canyon five miles from to"n'
where the Hot Springs, forty In NUMBER
come boiling to the surface.
The latitude Is about the same as that o.
cautraI Tennessee, while the altitude Is
nssrlv $500 feet. This combination gives
a neculiar, but most happy, result. In Fne
/. ~yinter. during the day, tbs thermometsr
.aidom falls, In the ahade, below forty de-
, oraes. while It often runs, In the sunshine,
:. .,x,v-ave deRrees-or even more. On
In other hand, In the summer the neat -
navar onnressive, in the shade, ana no
richt a. too warm for comfortable sleep,
under one or two blankets. Ihe sun VIII
= anime nine days out OF every TEN tne year
round. This, with the extreme dryness OF
~ air. caused by the very slight precipt-
sation of moisture; the resinous aroma
roIipo down from the pine-clau noun
tains: the large amount OF eiecerios.y -
the air, and the consequent ozone, res.,s
, ing from thealtitude; ana tne ioca', .nd mess
l. town. land locked by mountain ana mesa
70 these all conspire to produce an atmos'
rhara which Ia . balm to all diseases OF tns
ras,iratory organs. The percentnge p
l. dasth from consumption is lower In New
- Mexico thar 1t Is anywhere eiss ~ ~
r. iInitad States; and no other place 10 rev
Maxico excels Las Vegas In the saiunritl
- ia climate. Asthmattcs experienc
INN sdiate n permanent reiiei' In I'M
altitude. ...,ra ~
9. sorts, Las Vegas Is unrivaIeu. ~ : ea1
~ twenty miles, 10 mani mouptan
be clans and beside babbling mountain brook
sra the Las Vegas Hot Springs. Harvey
In EfPnrvenjr. Sandoval's Mineral Hill, ~
~ mSro Ranch, Biake's, Sparks, sapeIis
=, Rociada, and other places, TOO noinerou
ID mention where health can be recoveIee
LA life becomes a pleasure to the ennuy'
fhe invalid, the over-worked business ma,
T.Aa VreAs has two daily and i've week.
naners. three banks, two building and zoe
~ associations, three hotels. many Doaruin
"a hOuses. nine cnurcues, y
~ LA eil the leading civic and social soci'
ties; a roller -four mill, capacity. fifty pa
rsls per day; " w 700 GS Oannss sss ot wo
q, annually; a well equipped brewery az
bottling establishments; . manutactory
re- minersl and carbonated waters; two wa
on and carriage factories; a SADDLE NJ
Hs@ harness factory; a foundf.y eis
trio light plant, three planning NIL MI.
There are eight large wholesale nous
,er- whose trade extends throughout the ne
ritory, and into the adjoining s eod :
MN vaIne OF the stocks which they carry, Q
not hs duplicated west Of Kansas CITY z
ct south of Denver. Three merchants' bre
-. ers nave selected the city as their distr
''nk utInr ceuter, the amount OF their yea
ow- sales exceeding, In the aggregate, the co
hined sales. of all other such brokers
ear, rsaw Mexico. The retail merchants,
the las Vegas, are more numerous, and CO
vere larger and better stocks of goods than
~ the retail merchants OF any otner to"n
~ This Territory or Arizona.