Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-03-16

abound, shaded with growing trees.
Three parks, filled with grass and
trees, add to the beauty and healthful-
ness of the place. Handsome and
and innumerable lawns, set in grass
and adorned with shrubbery and
flowers, combine to proclaim a cultur-
cd community, possessed of all mod.
ern comforts and cOnvenienceS.
Las Vegas is the natura1 sanatO-
rum OF the United States, combining
more natural 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
malariar no excessive heat or cold, no
gnats, rats or mosquitoes. The air is
pure, dry, rarified. and highly electri-
fed-a certain cure for consumption,
if the disease be taken in time. ihs
hot waters are a specific for liver.
skin, rheumatic and blood disorders.
Her Montezuma hotel is the finest hos
telry between Chicago and California,
and is situated in a beautiful canyon,
five miles from town, where the hot
springs, forty in number, come boil
Ing to the surface. Besides this.
| st. Anthony's Sanitarium. conducted
by the Sisters of Charity. and the
Plaza SanitarIum. conducted ty DR..
William Curtiss Bailey. NJ. d.
Las Vegas Is the distributing poinI
for nearly all New Mexico BY the
Atchison system, she has connection
with Kansas on the east, Colorado Cd
the north, Arizona and California on
the west, and Texas and Old Mexico
on the south. Besides these, h has
more stage lines, connecting her with
tributary territory, thar has any other
town in New Mexico. This territory
includes the entire section s and
south of the mountains. and com
prises the counties of Colfax, Mora
Taos, San Miguel. Santa Fe, Socorro
Dona Ana, Grant, Chaves. Lincoln, and
Eddy with parts of Valencia and Der
nalillo-a country larger than all New
England. This takes in the famous
valley of the Rio Grande, and the less
famous, but not less excellent, valley
of the Pecos-the finest fruit sections
of the west.
The latitude is about the same az
that of central Tennessee, while the al
titude is nearly $500 feet. This com
bination gives a peculiar, but most
happy. result. In the winter, during
the day, the thermometer seldom falls
In the shade, below forty degrees
while it often runs III the sunshine, tC
sixty-five degrees-or even more. Or
the other hand, in the summer, tht
heat is never oppressive, in the shade
and no night is too warm Tor can
Portable sleep, under one Oh two
blankets. The sun will shine nint
days out Of eve ry ten, the year round
This, with the Extreme dryness OF thu
air. caused by the very slight precip
itation of moisture; the resinOus arc
ma, rolling down from the ~pine-clat
mountains; the large MOUNT Of elec
tricity in the air. and the consequer'
ozone resulting from the altitude: ant
the location Ut the town, land locke.
by mountain and mesa--thssa I'll con
spire to produce an atmosphere which
is a balm to all diseases of the respi
ratory organs. The percentage o
death from consumption is lower IL
New Mexico than il is anywhere els
in the United states; and 10 Othe
place in New Mexico excels Las Vegas
in the salubrity Of its climate. Asth
MATES experience immediate and pei
} manent relief, in this altitude.
In the way Of health and pleasure
} resorts, Las Vegas is u~nriva1ed. In
; radius of twenty miles. In romanti'
mountain glens and beside babblin;
: mountain brooks. are the Las Vega
J hot springs, Haryey's, FL Porvenir
Blake's,- Sparks Sapello. ROciada
/, and other places, too numerous t
! mention, where health can he recOy
cred, and life becomes a pleasure t,
? the ennuye, the invalid, the over
worked business man.
There are eight large wholesal
houses, whose trade extends through
out the Territory, and into the ad
Joining sections; while the volume Q
this trade. and the value OF the stock
which they carry, cannot be duplicai
ed west OF Kansas City and south o
beaver. Three merchants broker
have selected the city as their dis
! tributing center, the amount Of thei
! yearly sales exceeding, in the aggre
: gate, the combined sales OF all othe
such brokers in New Mexico. I'll
!. retail merchants, Of Las Vegas, ar
! more numerous, and carry larger an
!. better stocks of goods than do the r
!. tail merchants OF any other town
this Territory or Arizona.
Las vegas udS Two udlit anu 81
E weekly papers. three banks, thre
building and loan associations, six h
: tells, many boarding houses. min
! churches, a number Of club
] and all Of the leading civic an
d social s~ocieties: q roller flour mil
capacity, atty barrels per iay
i ave w~oll-scouring establishment
c. cleaning 3.O0O.0 900 pounds Of wool al
e rually; q welI-ecuipped brewery al:
. bottling establishment; a manufactor
of mineral and carbonatcd waters
z three wagon and carriage factories; sa
die and harness factory: . foundr
electric light plant. three planiu
mills. and other enterprises Of leas n
portance.
A city hall. fOur public school bull
iugs. courthouse. Masonic temple. o
era house, Territorial Normal schO
and Territorial insane asylum and pm
! lie buildings. constructed Of red ar
. white sandstone. unsurpassed In bea
lfy by similar edifces In any town,
! equal size, il the states.