Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-02-03
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Las vngas.meaning THE Meadows
s the county seat Of San } Ifguel coun
y, lies OF both sides OF the CsaIlina,
liver, ind. with It's suburbs. has abou1
%, 900 Inhabitants.
It has excellent water works. arr
well-iflled stores, beautiful residences
and incandescent electric light plant
telephone exchanges, headquarters OF
/ the Atchison railway system. Ixew
Mexico division, together with rail.
road machine shops and 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 strar. are
| wide and well graded. while sidewalks
| abound, shaded with growing trees.
Three parks, filed with grass and
trees, add to the beauty and healthful-
ness of the place. Handsome and
and innumerable lawns, set in grass
n 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
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
malaria, no excessive heat or cold. no
gnats, rats or mosquitoes. The air is
! pure, dry, rariied. and hi"h.,- .,ectri-
! ied-a certain u for consumption,
IL the disease be taken In time. The
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 6anlrarlum, conducted ty DR..
William Curtiss Bailey. M. d. .
Las Vegas is the distributing point
for nearly all New Mexico BY tie
Atchison system, she has connection
In the way Of health and pleasure
resorts, Las Vegas is unrivaled. In a
radius Of twenty miles, in romantic
mountain glens and beside babbling
mountain brooks, are the Las Vegas
hot springs, Harvey's, Ell Porvenir.
plake's, Sparks Sapello, Rociada,
aud other places, too numerous to
mention, where health cun be recov-
cred, and life becomes a pleasure to
the ennuye, the invalid, the over
worked business man.
The latitude is about h same as
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 IN the sunshine, to
sixty-five degrees-or even more. On
the other hand, in the summer, the
heat is never oppressive, in the shade,
and no night is too warm Tor Com
Portable sleep, under one or two
blankets. The sun will shine nine
days out Of eve y ten, the year round.
This, with the extreme dryneSs OF the
air. caused by the very slight precip,
itation Of moisture; the resinous aro-
ma. rolling down from the pine-clad