Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1898-02-02
NEW MHXICOS CHIEF CITY

Her Resources and Attractions
Brief Summary OF Her
Advantages.
LAS VEGAS, meaning "rhe Meadows,n
Is the county seat OF San Miguel county,
lies on both sides OF the Gallinas river, and
with Its suburbs, has about 10000 inhab.
itants.
LAS vEGAs INDUSTRIES.
IL has water wor ks, street cars, arc and
incandescsnt electric hight plsnt, 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 shee p -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 plaza
and all OF the new town, east OF
the river, constitute a distinctive
American city, The streets are wide and
we'll graded, while sidewalks abound,
shaded with growing trees. Three parks,
hlled with grass aud trees, add 10 the
beauty and healtbfulness OF the place.
Handsome aud we'll flied stores, beautiful
residences, and innumerable lawns, set In
grass and adorned with %sbrubbery anu
howeis, combine Co proclaim u cultured
community, possessed OF all modern COM
forts and convenience5.
PUBLIC N EDUCATIONAL
A city hall, three public school build
ings, courthouse, Masonic temple, Opera
house, Territorial Normal school, Terrific.
| rial Insane asylum, are public buildings,
constructed of red and white cut sand.
stone. unsurpassed In beauty by simiiar
odifices in any town, Of equal size, 10 the
statss.
An Academy, Seminary, Jesuit college,
Convent school, Presbyterian Mission
school, Methodist Manual Training
school, Christian Brothers institute, City
High school, three graded public schools,
a Kindergarten and 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 go ual
OF the Hot Springs Of Arkansas, while her
climate Is infinitely superior. There is no
malaria, no excessive heat or cold-no
gnats, rats or mosquitoes. The air is pure,
dry, rarihed aud highly electriied-a GER
tain cure for consumption, il the disease
bs taken in time. The HOT waters ure q
specific for liver, skin. rheumatic and
blood dieorders. Her Montezuma hotel is
the finest hostelry between Chicago ami
California, aud is situated in a beautiful
| CANYON. five ptliaa from town Wbara the
hot springs, forty in number, come boiling
10 the surface.
l. LATITUDE N ALTITUDE.
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. Ia the
winter, during the day. the thermometer
seldom falls, in the shade, below 400, while
1t often runs, in the sunshine, to 65o-or
even moro. On the other hand, in the
summer the heat is never oppressive, in
tue shade, and no light is too warm for
comfortable 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 the air, caused by the
very slight precipitation of moisture; the
resinous roma rolling down from the
pine clad mountains; the large amount of
electricity in the air, and the consequent
ozone resulting from the altitude; and the
location of the town, land locked by noun
tain and mesa-these all consD.re to pro-
duce an atmosphere which Is a balm to all
diseases OF the respiratory organs. The
percentage of death from consumption is
lower in New Mexico than it is any where
else in the United States; and no other
place in New Mexico excels Las Vegas in
the saiubrity Of its climate. Asthmetics
experience immediate and permanent re.
lief il .his altitude.
HEALTH N PLEASURE EsoRT
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 Las Vosas Hot Springs, Harvey's, Eli
Porvenir, S~andoval's, Mineral Hill, Rome
70 Ranch, Biake's, Sparks, Sapello, koci-
ada 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.
NEWSPAPERS, MANUFACTURES, ETC.
Las Vegas has two daily and five weekly
newspapers; three banks; two building
and loan associations; three hotels, and
many boarding houses; nine churches; a
number OF clubs, and all the leading civic
and social socIsties; a roller flour mill. ca
paclty, fifty barrels a day two wool
securing establishments, cleaning 1,50O 600
pounds OF wool annually; a mandatory
Of mineral and cerbonated waters: two
wagon and carriage factories; a saddle
end harness factory; electric lighu plant:
three planning mills; two cigar %manufacto-
ries, and other enterprises of less i'm port
aDce.
There are eight large wholesale houses,
whose trade extends throughout the Terri
tory and into the adjoining sections. while
the volume OF this trade, and the values of
the stocks they carry. can not be duplicat-
ed west Of Kansas City AMI south of Den.
YER. Three merchants brokers have se-
lected this city as their distributing center,
the amount Of their yearly sales exceed.
ing, in the aggregate. the combined sales
of all other such brokers ia New Mexico.
| The retail merchants of Les Vegas are
more numerous. and oarrv larger and bet
ter stocks of goods than do The retail mer-
chants of any other town in this Territory
or Arizona.
THE DISTRIBUTING POINT
Las Vegas is the distributing point for
nearly all New Mexico. By the Atchison
system, she has connection with Kansas on !
the east, Colorado on the north. ARIZONA |
and California on the west, md Texas and
Old Mexico on the south. Besides these, |
she has more stage lines, connecting her
with tributory territory, than has any |
other towrlin New Mexico, This territory
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