Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-19
THIS LOCALITY
Las Vegas the Chief City
of New Mexico Some
Of Her Resources,
Attractions and
Advantages.

LAS VEGAS 10 the natural sanatorium OF
the United States, combining more nat
ural advantages than any other place In
America. Her thermsl waters are the
equal OF the Hot Springs OF Arkansas
while her climate u Infinitely superior.
There 10 no malaria. no excessive heat or
cold, no gnats, rats or mosquitoes. Ins
air is pure, dry, rariied, and highly cleo
trided-a certain cure for consumption, II
the disease be taken In time. The hot
waters are . specific for liver. skin, rheu-
matte and blood disorders. Her Montezu-
ma hotel Is the finest hostelry between
l Chicago and California, and Is situated In
a beautiful canyon, nve miles from town,
where the Hot Springs, forty ia 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
a peculiar, but most happy, result. In the
winter, during the day, the thermometer
seldom falls. In the shade, below forty de-
grees, while 1t often runs, in the sunshine.
to sixty-hve degrees-or even more. On
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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 drynoss of
the air, caused by the very slight prscipi-
tation of moisture; the ~resinous aroma,
rolling down from the pine-ciad m0nn-
ltains; the large amount of electricity In
the air, and the consequent ozone, result
ing from thealtitude; and tine 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 percentages Of
death from consumption is lower in New
Mexico than it is anywhere else In ths
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
attitude. sv
In the way Of health and pleasure re-
sorts, Las Vegas Is unrivaled. In q radius !
OF twenty miles, in romantic mountain
giens and beside babhliug mountain brooks, |
are the Las Vegas Hot Springs, Harvey's, |
III Rorvenir, Sandoval's Mineral Hill, Ro-
nero Ranch, Blake's, Sparks, Eapello,
Rociada, and other places, too numerous
to mention where health can be recovered.
and life becomes q pleasure to the ennuye
the invalid, the over-worked business a.sn.
LAS VEGAS has two daily and 1--we weekly
papers, three banks, two building and loan
associations. three hotels. many boarding
houses, nine churches, q number OF clubs,
and all the leading civic and social socie-
ties; a roller iour mill, capacity, fifty bar
rels per day two -wool-scouring establish
ments, cleaning 100000 pounds OF wool
annually; a well-equipped brewery and
establishment; a mandatory of
mineral and carbonated waters; two wag-
On and carriage factories; a saddle and
harness factory; q foundry, cleo
light plant, three planning mills,
md other enterprises Of less importance.
There are eight large Wholesale houses,
trade extends throughout the Tor
'itory, and into the adjoining sections
while the volume Of this trade. and the
7alue Of the stocks which they carry, can
lot be duplicated west of Kansas City and
Iouth of Denver. Three merchants brok-
RS have selected the city as their distrib-
ltiDg center, the amount of their yearly {
ales exceeding, in the aggregate, the COM ;
lined sales of all other such brokers in J
Mexico. The retail merchants, of .
las Vegas, are more numerous, and carry
anger and better stocks Of goods than do 4
be retail merchants OF any other town In :
his Territory or Arizona. q