Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-07

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

LAS VEGAS Is the natural sanatorium o
the United States, combining more nat
ural advantages than any other place Il
America. Her thermal waters are tn
equal OF the Hot Springs Of Arkansas
while nor climate 10 infinitely superior
There Is no malaria. no excessive heat o,
] cold. no enats. rats or moanniEnaa "a,
AIR Is pure, dry, rarihed, and highly cleo,
trifed-a certain cure for consumption, 4
the disease be taken in time. The no
waters are a specific for liver. skin, rheu'
matte and blood disorders. Her Montezu,
ma hotel 10 the finest hosiery between
Chicago and California. aud Is situated ID
a beautiful canyon, five miles from town
where the Hot Springs, forty In number
come boiling to the surface. y
The latitude is about the same as that Of
central Tennessee, while the altitude Ii
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-five degrees-or even more. Or
tho other hand, In the summer. the heat is
never oppressive, IN the shade, and nc
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 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 Ia
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 lie lower In New
Mexico than II is anywhere else In the
United States; and no other place 10 New
Mexico excels Las Vegas in the salubrity
OF its climate. AsthmatIcs experience
immediate and permanent relief, In this
altitude. "a
In the way Of health and pleasure re-
sorts, Las Vegas is unrivaled. In a radius
OF twenty miles, in romantic mountain
glens and beside babbling mountain brooks,
are 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 VKGAs has two daily and ave weekly
papers, three banks, two building and loan
associations. three hotels, many boarding
hous %, nine churches, q number OF clubs,
and all the leading civic and social socie-
ties; a roller -four mill, capacity, fifty bar
rels per dey; two w~ool-scouring establish
ments, cleaning 1,500,0 600 pounds of wool
annually; a well-equipped brewery and
bottfng establishment: q mandatory of
mineral and carbonated waters; two wag-
on and carriage factories; a saddle and
harness factory; a foundrJ. 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 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 in
New Mexico. The retail merchants, of
Las Vegas, are more numerous, and carry
and better stocks Of goods thar do
the retail merchants OF any other town In |
This Territory or Arizona.