Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-03

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

LAS VEGAS 10 tho natural sanatorIum OF
the United States, combining more nat
urai advantages than any other place In
America. Her thermal waters are the
equal OF the Hot Springs OF Arkansas
while her climate lie infinitely superior.
There is no malaria. no excessive heat or
cold, no gnats, rats or mosquitoes. Ins|
air Is pure, dry, rarihed, and highly cleo
triaed-a certain cure for consumption, IL
the disease be taken In time. The hot
waters are a specific for liver. skin, rheu-
matic and blood disorders. Her Montezu-
ma hotel Is the finest hostelry between
Chicago and California, and is situated In
e beautiful canyon, Eve miles from town,
where the Hot Springs, forty In number,
come boiling to the surface. I. &sti1 &
The latitude is about the same as that Of
central Tennessee, while the altitude Is
nearly $500 feet. This combination gives
q peculiar, but most happy, result. In the
winter, during the day, the Thermometers
seldom falls, Ia the shade, below forty de-
grees, while IL often runs, In the sunshine,
to sixty-five degrees-or eve 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 win
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-ciad noun
tains; the large amount of electricity Ia
the air, and the consequent ozone, result
ing from theultitude; and the location Of the
town, land-locked by mountain and mesa
these all cQnspire to produce an atmos-
pnere which Is a balm to all diseases OF the
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death from consumption Is lower In New
Mexico than 1t is anywhere else in the
United States; and no other place In New
Mexico excels Las Vegas In the ~salubrity
of its climate. Asthmatics experience
immediate and permanent relief, in this
altitude. Il
In the way Of health and pleasure re-
sorts, Las Vegas IL unrivaled. In q radius
OF twenty miles, In romantic mountain
glens and beside babbliug mountain brooks,
arc the Las Vegas Hot Springs. Harvey's,
Ell Porvenir, S~andoval'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 1--WE 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 lou mill, capacity. fifty bar
rels per day two wool-soouring establish
ments, cleaning 1,500, 900 pounds of wool
annually a well-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 rave 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 in
New Mexico. The retail merchants, Of
Las Vegas, are more numerous, n carry
larger and better stocks OF goods than do
the retail merchants OF any other town In
this Territory or Arizona.