Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1898-02-03
new MBXICO'S Chief CITY
Her Resources and Attractions
Brief Summary of Her
Advantages.

LAS VEGAS, meaning The Meadows,n
is the county seat of San Miguel county,
lies on both sides OF the Gallinas river, aud
with its suburbs, has about 10000 inhab-
itants.
A VEGAS INDUSTRIES.
1t has water-works, street cars, arc and
incandescent electric light plant, telephone
exchanges, Territorial agricultural expert
ment station, headquarters of the Atchison
railway system. New Mexico division, to-
gether With railroad machine shops and
tie preserving works, stock yards, and the
largest sbeep.shearing and dipping plant
IN the United States
BEAUTIFUL AND PICTURESQUE.
West of the river, the old town has the
quaint and picturesque Mexican appear
ance - adobe houses, narrow, crooked
streets, native people and customs, handi-
crafts and occupations; but the playa
and ell of the new town, east Of
the river, constitute a distinctiye
American city, The streets are wide and
we'll graded, while sidewalks abound,
shaded with growing trees. Three parks,
filled with grass and trees, add to the
beauty and heslthfulness of the place.
Handsome and we'll filed stores, beautiful
residences, and iunumerable lawns, set in
grass and adorned with sbrubbery ana
flowers, combine 60 proclaim q cultured
community, possessed of all modern COM
forts and conveniences
PUBLIC N EDUCATIONAL UILpING
A city ball, three public school build
ings, sc~oart-house,. Masonic temple, Opera
house, Territorial Normal school, Teri ito
riaf Insane asylum, are public buildings,
constructed OF red and white cut sand
stone. unsurpassed in beauty by similar
edthces in any town, of equal size, in the
statss.
An Academy, Seminary, Jesuit college,
Convent school, Presbyterian Mission
school, Methodist Manual Treining
school. Christian Brothers. institute, City
high school, three graded public schools,
a Kindergarten aud two Music schools,
besides, several private teachers are among
the educational advantages,
SANITARY ADVANTAGES.
Las Vegas is the natural Sanitarium OF
the United States, combining more nat
ural advantages than any other place in
America. Her thermal waters are the equal
OF the Hot Springs Of Arkansas, while her
climate is infinitely superior. There is no
malar1a, no excessive heat or cold-no
gnats, rats or mosquitoes. The air is pure,
dry, rarifed and highly elect, iGed-a Ger,
tain cure for consumption, il thG dlsease
bs taken in time. TIE hot waters are a
blood disorders. Her Montezuma hotel fs
the finest hostelry between Chicago AMI
California, and is situated in a beautiful
cany on, five miles from town, where the
hot springs, forty in number, come boili2g
TO the surface. tN
LATITUDE AND ATTITUDE,
The altitude 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. la the
winter, during the day, the thermometer
seldom falls. in the shade, below 409, while
IT often runs, in the sunshine, to 65o-or
even more. On the other hand, in the
summer the heat is never oppressive, in
the shade, aud no light is too warm for
sleep, under one or two blank.
cts. The sun will shine nine days out of
every ten, the year round. This, with tn
extreme dryness of ths air, caused by the
very slight precipitation OF moisture; the
resinous aroma rolling down from the
pine clad mountains; the large amount Of
electricity In The air, and the CONSEQUENT
ozone resulting fromthe altitude; and the
location of the town, land locked by noun
tain aud mesa-these al copspire to pro-
iduee an atmosphere which ia a balm to5all
tteo1'oo Va taC u OtEtn6 1u6
percentage of death from consumption is
lower 10 New Mexico than it Is anywhere
else in the United States; and no other
place in New Mexico excels Las Vegas in
the salubrity Of its climate. Asthmatics
rience immediate and permanent re-
lief III this altitude.
HEALTH N PLEASURE RESORTS.
In the way of health AID pleasure REL
sorts, Las Vegas is unriyaled. In a radius
OF twenty miles, In romantic mountain
glens and beside habbling mountain brooks.
are Las Vegas Hot Springs, Harvoy's, III
Poryenir, S~andoval's, Mineral Hill, Rome |
70 Ranch, Blake's, Sparks, Sapello, Roci-
ada and other places, too numerous to
mention, where health can be recovered, |
and life becomes a pleasure to the ennuye,I
the invalid, the over-worked business man.
Al NEWSPAPERS, MANUFAcToRIEs, RTc.
Las Vegas has W daily and Eve weekly
newspapers, three banks; two building
and loan associations; three hotels. ana
many boarding houses; nine churches; "a
clubs, and all the leading ci vic
and social societies; a roller flour mill. ca
fifty barrels a day two wool-
securing establishments, cleaning 100. 600
of wool annually a manufactory
If mineral and carhonated waters, two
wagon and carriage factories; a saddle
md harness factory; electric light plants;
,hree planning mills; two cigar manufacto.
les, and other enterprises Of less import
nee.
There are eight large wholesale houses,
whose trade extends~ throughout the Terri,
DRY and into the adjoining sections, while
volume OF this trade, and the values OF
stocks they carry. can not be duplicat-
d west Of Kansas City ana south OF Dem
er. Thtee merchants brokers have se-
ccted this city as their distributing eentsr.
AMOUNT OF their yearly sales exceed
az. In the aggregate, the combined ssles
Z all other such brokers in New Mexico.
ne retail merensnse OF Las vegas are
or stocks OF goods than DO the retail msf-
Of any other town in this Territory
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