Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-08-06

Some Things About Lac Vegas MOI
Generally Known 70 the
ouenide World.

liver. and. with its suburbs, has about
10000 Inhabitants.
II has excellent water works. arc
well-hlled stores. beautiful residences
and i~ncandescent electric light plant,
telephone exchanges, headquarters OF
the Atchison railway system. new
Mexico division. together with rail-
road machine shops and Representing
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 q distinc-
tive American city. The streets are
wide and well graded, while sidewalks
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 q cultur-
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ern comforts and conveniences.
Las Vegas is the natural 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 Ia no
malaria, nc excessive heat or cold, no
gnats, rats or mosquitoes. The air is
pure, dry, rarifed. and highly electri-
f1ed-a certain cure for consumption,
II the disease be taken in time. The
hot waters are q specific for liver,
skin. rheumatic and blood disorders.
Her Montezuma hotel Is the finest hos
telry between Chicago and California
and Is situated in q 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 ~ Or.
W \ Curtiss Bailey. M. D.
49, Vegas 10 the distributing point
TO. nearly all New Mexico BY the
Atchison system. she has connection
with Kansas on the east, Colorado OF
the north, Arizona and California on
the west, and Texas and Old Mexico
on the south. Besides these, she has
more stage lines, connecting her with
tributary territory. than has any other
town In New Mexico. This territory
includes the entire section east 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 Ber-
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.
There are eight large wholesale
houses, whose trade extends through
joining sections; while the volume Of
! this trade. and the value of the stocks
: which they carry, cannot be duplicat
ed We 81 OF Kansas City and south o.
. beaver. Three merchants broker!
: have selected the city as their dis
; tributing center, the amount Of thei
Y yearly sales exceeding, in the aggre
4 gate, the combined sales of all othe
such brokers In New Mexico. Tn
. retail merchants, Of Las Vegas, ar,
q more numerous. and carry larger an
better stocks Of goods than do the ~
9 tail merchants Of any other town Il
= this Territory or Arizona.
Las Vegas has two daily and 81
: weekly papers, three banks, thre
g building and loan associations, six hi
h tells. many boarding houses, min
churches, . number Of club
and all Of the leading civic an
= social societies; . roller -four nail
capacity. nifty barrels per day
. nve woll-scouring establishment
cleaning 5000. 900 pounds Of wool al
ID nually; . well-ecuipped brewery an
n bottling establishment; = manufactOr
!. Of mineral and carbonatcd waters
three wagon and carriage factor1es;sa
d die and harness factory: . foundr,
n electric light plant three plauir
,e mills. and other enterprises Of LEES IN
a portance.
A city hall, four public schoel bull
iMgu, courthouse, Masonic teup1e, o
Of era house, Territorial Normal scho
NJ and Territorial insane asylum nd "a
lie buildincu, constructed ef red O.
white sandstone, unsurpassed b bea
[ty By similar edinces In ~ town.
ieQusl size. IN the states.
20 The latitude II abouk The oame
NJ that d central Tennessee, while TIE
titude ID nearly $500 fesk. This col
= bination Gives . peculiar, but mo
ut happy, result. In IL winter. duril
~ the day. the thermonster seldom fai
IN Tn the shade. belev festy degree
!, while It often runs n the sunshine.
sixty.nve degrees-or even more. {
the other hand. In the summer, Il
heat 10 never oppressive, In the shad
de and no night II too warm for CO.
Portable sleep, under q or II
blankets. The sun will shine MI
lg' days out Of every ten. the year rour
to- This, with the extreme dryness Of q
or air, caused by the very slight preo
A. itation Of moisture; the resinous q
ma, rolling down from the pine-cl
mountains; the large amount of Ell,
zen tricity In the air. and the conseQue
,rd ozone resulting from the altitude; .
i'm the location II the town, handbook
by mountain and mesa--theso all G.
spire to produce an atmosphere viii
q is q balm to all diseases Of the res
rgs ratory organs. The percentage
bly death from consumption is lower
New Mexico than It Ii anywhere q
In the United Statcs; and no oil
place In New Mexico excels Las ves
In the salubrity Of it, climate. Az