Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-22
THIS LOCALITY
Las Vegas the Chief City
Of New Mexico-- Some
Of Her Resources,
Attractions and
"a Advantages.

LAS VEGAS Il the natural sanator'nm o.
the United States, combining more mat
ural advantages than any other plaoe 10
America. Her thermal waters are the
equal OF the Hot Springs OF AfkAnsss
while her climate Is infinitely superior.
There IA no malaria, no excessive hest or
cold, no gnats. rats or MOSQUITOES, roe
air Is pure. dry. rarifed, and highly cleo
trihsd-a certain cure for consumptior, u
the disease be taken IN time. The hot
waters are q specific for liver, skin. rhen-
matte and blood disorders. Her Montezu-
ma hotel is the finest hosteIry bstween
Chicago and California, and 10 situated Ia
: beautiful canyon, Ave miles from town,
who're 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
| winter, during the day. the thsrmometer
| seldom falls. In the shade. below forty de-
| rrees. while II often runs, In the sunshine.
10 sixty-nve degrees-or even more. On
| the other hand, In the sun mer. the heat 10
| never oppressive, IN the shade, and no
| night is too warm for comfortable sleep,
| under one or two blnnkcts, 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 aromas
| rolling down from the pine clad noun
| talns: the large amount OF electricity IN
| the air, and the consequent ozone, result
| ing from thealtitude and the location OF the
| town, land-iocked by mountain and mesa
these all conspire to produce an atmos-
| phere which Is q balm TO all diseases or the
respiratory organs. The percentage Of
| death from consumption 10 lower 10 New
| Mexico than IL Is anywhere else In the
| United States; and no other place In New
| Mexico excels Las Vegas In the s~alubrity
| of its climate. AsthmatIcs experience
Immediate ant permanent relief, In this
altitude. 4asa.
In the way Of health and pleasure re-
sorts, Las Vegas is uurivaled. In . radius
OF twenty miles, In romantic mountain
| Rlens and beside babbling mountain brooks,
are the Las Vegas Hot Springs. Harvey's.
| ri Porvenir, Sandoval's Mineral Hill, Ro-
nero Ranch, Blake's, SPARKS, Sapsllo,
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 hve weekly
| DC pers, three banks, two building and loan
NEGOTIATIONS. three hotels, many boarding
| houses, nine churches, q number Of clubs,
and ali the leading civic and social socie-
| ties; a roller -four mill, or paclty, fifty bar
| rels per day two understanding establish
ments, cleaning 100000 pounds OF wool
annually; q weil-equipped brewery and
bottiing establishment; q mandatory Of
| mineral and carbonsted waters; two wsg-
on and carriage factories; Q saddle and
harness factory; - foundry, eisc-
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 int
| south OF Denver. Three m~erehants' brok-
ers have selected the city as their distrib-
uting center, the amount Of their yearly
sales exceeding, in the aggregate, the conn
bined Gales 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 do
the retail merchants OF any other town II
this Territory or Arisonas