Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1898-02-01

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LAS VEGAS INDUSTRIES.
II has water-woi ks, street cars, arc and
incandescept electric light plant, telephone
exchanges, Territorial agricultural expert
ment station, headquarters OF the Atcnison
railway system, New Mexico division, TO-
gether With railroad machine shops and
tie preserving works, stock yards, and the
largest sheep 'shearing and dipping plant
IN the United States,
BEAUTIFUL AND PICTURESQUE.
West Of the river, the old tow has the
quaint and picturesque Mexican appear
ance - adobe houses, narrow, crooked
streets, native people and customs, handi-
crafts and occupations; but the plaza
and all of the new town, east OF
the river, constitute a distinctive
American city, Tbs streets are wide and
we'll graded, while sidewalks abound,
shaded with growing trees. Three PARKS,
oiled with grass aud trees, add to the
beauty and healthfulness of the place.
Handsome and we'll filled stores, beautiful
residences, and innumerable lawns, set in
grass ana adorned with shrubbery ana
flowers, combine TO proclaim a cultured
community, possessed OF all modern COM
forts and convenienee5,
PUBLIC N EDUCATIONAL BUILDINGS.
A city ball, three public school build
ings, court house, Masonic temple, Opera
house, Territorial Normal school, Terrific
rial Insane asylum, are public bulldlp IS,
constructed of red and white cut saud.
stone. unsurpassed lii beauty by sir liar
ediices in any town, OF eq lal Size, in the
statss.
An Academy, Seminary, Jesuit college,
Convent school, Presby terian. Mission
school, Methodist Manual lrgining
school, Christian Brotaers' fnst. tIte. civ
high school, three grade Il null schools.
n kindergarten aud two pluslc schools.
besides, several private tee ;hers are among
the educational advanta es.
SANITARY ADVANTAGES.
Las Vegas is tn natural sanitarium Of
the United stat IS, combining more nat
ufal aoVantA es than any other place in
america NJ 4 thermal waters are the equal
OF inc MOI springs Of Alkausas, while her
ci.uaso - infinitely superior. There is no
Aassr'a, no excessive heat or cold-no
gnaf >, rats or mosquitoes. The air is pure,
drv ratified and highly electriied-a GER
|, : ala cure for consumption, If the disease
ba taken in time. The hot waters are o
4 specific for liver, skin, rheumatic and
/ blood disorders. Her Montezuma hotel il
v tue finest h~ostelry between Chicago and
. California, and is situated in O beautitu l
cany on, live mics from town, where this
: not springs, forty ia number, come boilina
a 10 the surface.
LATITUDE N ALTITUDE.
The latitude is about the same as that oil
central Tennessee, while the altitude is
nearly $500 feet, This combination give:
a peculiar, but most happy, result. In the
winter, during the day, the thermometer
: seldom fails, in the shade, below 40o, while
1t often runs, i'll the sunshine, to 65o-oI
even more. On the other hand, in the
summer the heat is never oppressive, il
l tka - n a - -x.I - g.. .-~~. o..
comfortable sleep, under one or two blank
= cts. The sun will shine nire days cut oil
every ten, the year round. This, with tn
extreme dryness of the air, caused by The
: very slight precipitation OF moisture;s tht
y resinou5 aroma rolling down from thu
! pine clad mountains; the large amount oil
= electricity III the air, and the consequent
. ozone resulting from the attitudes; and the
| location OF the town, land-locked by moan,
tam and esa-the all conspire to pro
duce an atmosphere which is a balm to al
diseases of the respiratory organs. TINT
q percentage of death from consumption i
lower in New Mexico than 1t Is a~nywher,
else IN the United States; and no otGel
place in New Mexico excels Las Vegas II
tho saiubriry IF its climate. Asthmatic
. experience immediate and permanent re
+ lief III .his altitude.
HEALTH AND PLEASURE RESORTS.
. Ia the way Of health and pleasure re
q Lsorts, Las Vegas is unrivalad. In a radiu
OF twenty miles, in romantic mountain
glens and beside babbling mountain brooks
are Las Vegas Hot Springs, Harysy's, E
o Porvenir, S~andovai's, Mineral Hill. Rome
no Ranch. Blake's, Sparks, Sapello, koci
q ada and other places, too numerous tt
mention, where health can be recovered
and life becomes a pleasure to the eanuye
the invalid, the over-worked business man
h NEWSPAPERS, MANUFACTURERS, ETC.
Las Vegas has two daily and five weekly
n newspapers; three banks; two building
and loan associations; three hotels, anc
many boarding houses; nine churches; {
number of clubs, and all tha leading civi,
. and social societies.; a roller -four mill, ca
pacity. fifty barrels q Gay; two wool
b securing establishments, cieaning /. SEQ 0O(
/, poun! IS Of wool annually; q manufactury
Of mineral and csrbonated waters; TIVE
u wagon and carriage factories; a SADDLE
and harness factory; electric ligh5 plant
three planning mills; two cigar mauufacto.
r ries, and other enterprises Of less import
:. ance.
. There are eight large wholesale houses
q whose trade extends throughout the Terri
T tory aud into the adjoining sections, Will,
: the volume OF this trade, and the values Of
tho stocks tbsy carry, can not he duplieat-
I ed west OF Kansas City and south or Den
4 YER. Three merchants brokers have Sc.
/ ~ @1N''f 80 siStA - LIZ S0t
the amount of their yeatly sales exceed
Il ing. III the aggregate, the combined sales
G of all other such brokers in New Mexico
, The retail merchants of Las Vegas are
more numerous. and carry larger and bet
= ter stocks OF goods than do the retail mar-
chants Of any other town Ia this Territory
or Ariz1na.
THE DISTRIBUTING POINT
Las Vegas is the distributing point fol
q nearly all New Mexico. BY the Atchison
system, she has connection with Kansas OF
Q the east, Colorado on thu north. Arizonr
e and California on the west, ard Texas and
V Old Mexico on the south. Besides these,
!. she has mere stage lines, connecting heI
: with tributsry territory, than has any
/, other town in New Mexico. This territory
includes the entire section east and sonth
n OF the mountains. and comprises the conn
ties of Colfax. Mora, Taos, San Miguel,
: Santa Fe. Socorro, Dona Ara, Grant,
Chaves, Lincoln and Eddy, with parts of
Y Valencia and Barnalilio-a country larger
than all New England, This takes in the