Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-02-28
II CITY.
some Things About Las Vegas Not
Generally Known to the
Outside World.

Generally Known to the
Outside World.
Las Vegas, meaning THE Meadows"
s the county seat of San Miguel coun-
y. lies o / both sides Of the Gallinas
liver, and, with its suburbs, has about
1000 hAbitants.
It has excellent water works. arc
well-flled stores, beautiful residences
and incandescent electric light plant,
telephone exchanges, headquarters OF
the Atchison railway system, lSew
Mexico division, together with rail-
road machine shops md tie-preserving
works, stock yards and large sheep
shearing and dipping plants.
West of the river. the old town has
the quaint and picturesque Mexican
appearance adobe houses, narrow,
crooked streets, native people and
customs, handicrafts and occupations;
but the plaza and all of the new town,
east of the river, constitute a distinc-
tive American city. The streets are
wide and well graded, while sidewalks
abound, shaded with growing trees.
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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.
ed community, possessed OF all mod
| ern comforts and conveniences.
Las Vegas is the natural sanato
rum of the United States, combining
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other place in America. Her therma
waters are the equal Of the Hot
Springs OF Arkansas, while her climate
is infinitely superior. There is nc
malaria, no excessive heat or cold, nc
gnats, rats or mosquitoes. The air il
pure, dry, rariied. and highly electri
fed-a certain cur for consumption
if the disease be taken In time. The
hot waters r 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
Ave miles from town, where the no
springs, forty in number, come boil
ing to the surface. Besides this
st. Anthony's Sanitarium. conducte'
by the Sisters Of Charity. and tn
Plaza Sanitarlum, conducted by ID
William Curtiss Bailey. M. D.
Las Vegas is the distributing poin
for nearly all New Mexico BY tn
Atchison system, she has connectio
with Kansas on the east. Colorado O
the north, Arizona and California O
the west, and Texas and Old Mexic
on the south. Besides these, she ha
more stage lines, connecting her wit
tributary territory, than has any othe
town in New Mexico. This territOr
includes the entire section east ar
south of the mountains, and con
prises the counties of Colfax, Nor;
Taos, San Miguel, Santa Fe. Socorr'
Dona Ana, Grant, Chaves, Lincoln, an
Eddy with parts of Valencia and Be
nalillo-a country larger than all Ne
England. This takes in the famOl
valley OF the Rio Grande, and the les
|, famous, but not less excellent, vale
of the Pecos-the finest fruit section
of the west.
Las Vegas has two daily and 8
!. weekly papers. three banks, thrs
, building and loan associations, six b
tells, many boarding houses, nil
. churches, q number Of club
and all Of the leading civic al
social societies; a roller -four mi
capacity, fifty barrels per la.
i've voll-scouring establishment
cleaning 5000, 900 pounds of wool a
nually; a well-ecuipped brewery al
bottling establishment; 4 manufactol
Of mineral and carbonatcd waters
three wagon and carriage factories 81
die and harness factory; a foundr
electric light plant, three planil
mills, and other enterprises Of less II
portance.
A city hall. tour public school bull
iags, courthouse, Masonic temple, Q
era house, Territorial Normal scho
and Territorial insane asylum and pu
lie buildings, constructed of red Al
white sandstone, unsurpassed in bea
ty by similar edifices in any town,
equal size. in the states.
This Territory is rich In everythil
iron, copper, coal, lead. silver, gol
that constitutes the wealth Of nation
! mica, limestone. sandstone, marble
gypsum, salt, soda in endless variety a,
exhaustless quantities. are among t
several products of the country viii
Las Vegas commands. Sheep, Gait
and lumber abound, so that In ca
Of these prime articles Of CONNER
this city is the best market in NJ
Mexico. She handles more wool tn
al the other towns in the Terrific
combined. while her commerce in hid
is truly enormous. In the same VIZ
she stands pre-eminent for her ira
in grains. hay. vegetables, and 9th
farm products: while her trade in Il
gathered in the neighboring mounts
canyons, extends east into Kans
west into Arizona, and south into c
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