Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-07-03
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Some Thinas About Las Vegas MOI
Generally Known to the
Outside World.

road machine shops and tie-preserylng
works, stock yards and large sheep
sheating 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 distine-
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 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, rarified. and highly electrl-
fied--a certain cure for consumption,
If 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 SanitarIum, conducted ry DR..
William Curtiss Bailey. M. D.
Las Vegas is the distributing point
for nearly all New Mexico BY the
J Atchison system, she has connection
with Kansas on the east. Colorado on
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 Fee. 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.
There are eight large wholesale
houses, whose trade extends through
out the Territory, and into the ad-
Joining sections; while the volume OF
this trade, and the value OF the stocks
which they carry, cannot be duplicat.
ed ives. Of Kansas City and south OF
Beaver. Three merchants brokers
have selected the city rs their dis
tributing center. the amount Of their
yearly sales exceeding, In the aggre
gate, the combined sales of all Other
such brokers in New Mexico. The
retail merchants, Of Las Vegas, are
more numerous, and carry larger AM
better stocks of goods than do the re
tail merchants of any other town IL
this Territory or Arizona.
Las Vegas has two daily and sil
weekly papers, three banks, three
building and loan associations, six no
tells, many boarding houses. MINI
churches, q number Of clubs
and all OF the leading civic AM
social societies; a roller -four mill
capacity. fifty barrels per day
I'VE ~wollscouring establishments
cleaning 3,00O,0 900 pounds Of wool an
nually; a well-ecuipped brewery an
bottling establishment; a manufactor,
of mineral and carbonatcd waters
three wagon and carriage factories; sa'
die and harness factory; a foundry
electric light plant, three planin
mills, and other enterprises Of less in
portance.
A city hall, four public school built
= hugs, courthouse. Masonic temple. Of
q era house, Territorial Normal scho(
Q and Territorial insane asylum and pull
n lie buildings. constructed OF red an
white sandstone, unsurpassed In beat
ty by similar ediflces in any town, {
o equal size. In the states.
el The latitude is about the same Z
that Of central Tennessee, while the a
titude is nearly $500 feet. This con
bination gives a peculiar, but mo-
happy, result. In the winter, durin
the day, the thermometer seldom fall
# in the shade, below forty degree
: while 1t often runs IN the sunshine,
" sixty-fve ~degrees--or even more. 9
1.-THE other hand, in the summer, Il
heat is never oppressive, In the shad
in and no night is too warm for Gu
Portable sleep, under n or "
blankets. The sS}%ill shine nil
days out Of evsy ton, the year roun
This, with the extreme dryness OF u
IN air, caused by the very slight preci
itation OF moisture; the resinous al
% ma, rolling down from the pine-cli
mountains; the large amount OF ele
1t tricity In the air. and the conseque
TX ozone resulting from the altitude; al
"a the location If the town, handbook
by mountain and mesa--thesc all CO
spire to produce an atmosphere whit
" Is a balm to all diseases Of the resi-
ratory organs. The percentage
death from consumption is lower
!, New Mexico than It Is anywhere ell
~ In the United States; and 10 9th
place in New Mexico excels Las Veg
In the salubrity Of Its climate. Asst
matics experience immediate and n
manent relief, In this altitude.
In the way Of health and pleasu
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