Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-01-05
This LOCALITY
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
ural advantages than any other place 10
America. Her thermal waters are the
equal Of the Hot Springs OF Arkansas,
while her climate IL iDhnitely superior.
There is no malaria, no excessive heat or
sold, no gnats, rats or mosquitoes. The
air Is pure, dry, rariied, and highly cleo
triied-a certain cure for consumption, II
the disease be taken In time. The hot
W aters are q specific for liver, skin, rheu-
matte and blood disorders. Her Montezu-
ma hotel Is the finest hostelry between
Chicago and California, and is situated In
Q beautiful canyon, Eve miles from town,
where 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
winter, during the day, the Thermometer
| seldom falls, 10 the shade, below forty de-
| grees, while IL often runs, In the sunshine,
to sixty-five degrees-or even more. On
| the other hand, in the summer, the heat 10
never oppressive, N the shade. and no
night is too warm for comfortable sleep,
| under one or two blankets. The sun Will
shine mir 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 q balm to all diseases OF the
respiratory organs. The percentage OF
death from consumption 10 lower Ia New
Mexico than II Is any where else in the
United States; and no other place Ia New
Mexico excels Las Vegas In the salubrity
Of 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 . radius
OF twenty miles, In romantic mountain
glens and beside babbling mountain brooks,
Ell Porvenir, Sandoval's Mineral Hill, Ro-
nero Ranch, Blake's, Sparks, Sapello,
Rociada, and other places, too Numerous
20 mention, where health can be recovered,
and life becomes a pleasure to tho 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, 3 number OF clubs,
aud all the leading civic and social socie
ties; a roller -four mill, capacity, fifty bar
rels per day; two wool-scouring establish
ments, cleaning $500, 900 pounds of WOO,
annually; a well-equipped brewery and
bottling establishment; a manufactory OF
mineral and carbonated waters; two wag.
ou and carriage factories; q saddle and
harness factory; . foundI, elec-
trie Igh 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 thu
value of the stocks which they carry, car
not be duplicated west of Kansas City ant
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 II
Sew Mexico. The retail merchants, o
Las Vegas, are more numerous, and carr,
larger and better stocks Of goods than d
the retail merchants of any other town IL
this Territory or Arizona.
LAS VEGAS IS the distributing point TO
nearly all New Mexico. By the Atchisoi
system, she has connection with Kansa
J on the east, Colorado on the north, Arizo
! va and California on the west, and Texa
I and Old Mexico on the south. Beside
these, she has more stage lines, connectinl
ner with tributary territory, than has an.
other town In New Mexico. This t%efritor,
includes the entire section east and soutl
u lue 6oo
ties of Colfax, Mora, Taos, San Migue
Santa Fe, Socorro, Dona Ana, Gran'
Cbaves, Lincoln and Eddy, with parts Q
Valencia and Bernalillo--a country large
bhan all New England. This takes In tn
r famous Valley ofthe Rio Grande, n To
less famous, but not less excellent, Vale
I of the Pecos-the finest fruit sections {
, the west.
i This Territory ia rich In everything ths
: constitutes the Wealth Of Nations. lror
=. coal, lead, silver, gold, mica, limeston,
! sandstone, marbles, gypsum, soda in end
ass vsriety and exhaustless quantities
are among the several products OF th
country which Las Vegas command
Sheep, cattle and lumber abound, 30 thu
v in each of these prime articles of commere
Z his city Is the best market in New Mexic
She handles more wool than all the oth'
= towns in the Territory combined, viii
y GER commerce 10 hides is truly enormou
10 the lame way, she stands pre-emineI
for her trade in grains, hay, vegetable
md other farm products; while her trae
l. ip ice, gathered in the ~neighboring moui
/ tain canyons, extends east into Kansa
I west iato Arizona, n south into q
OI Marian .