Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-07-11

Some Things About Las Vegas Not
Generally Known 70 the
outoide World.

lseI, auu' Win its supurps mas aDout
1o,vVv lnnADitants
n.s eAcellent Water WORKS. arc
"eii-niieo STORES. Deautliui residences
And incanocscent electric lignt plant.
seiepnone exchanges. headquarters Of
the Atcnison railway system, new
mexico DIVISION togetner with rail-
roau macnine SHOPS q tle-preservinG
works, STOCK YARDS ana large sneep
ana dipping plants.
west Of Inc river, the old town has
Tue Quaint anu picturesque mexican
appearances -auope houses, narrow,
crooKe streets native people and
customs n~anoicraIts 2 occupations;
u q plaza and all OF the new town,
EAST OF the river, constitute q distinc-
i've american city: Inc streets are
woe ana wei graded, wnile sldewaiks
apouno, snade Win growing trees.
lnree PARKS niied Win grass q
Tees auu W lne Deauty anu nealtnlui
ness " .ne place. handsome anu
u nnuLneIaDic lawns, PC. ~ Grass
aa auo. WIN anu
e.s, .onuine ~ proclaim = cul.u,-
nrr n-.-r-Ar -
- Wanas
r;,,ns - tha I1n;.oa c.a.ns onsS;n;ur
$500 na,ro, aS~an tuaa nus
athau rsaaa 4. Amaaaa L.
usatars orc tha an,aI ~ L.
Snrings ~ Arkansas while bar climate
4 infnitaIv sunarior Tbora is ~
malaria M ovoass,va Moot ~ ooId NJ
pnata rate ar moscnitoas Tho or 10
nnre drv rarified and highly ~alactri.
fied--a certain cure for consumntion
If the disease he taken in time The
hot waters Are 4 sneci6c for liver
skin. rheumatic and blood disorders.
Her Montezuma hotel ia the fines 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 S~anitarium. conducted
by the Sisters of Charity. and the
Plaza SanitarYum. conducted nv DR..
william Curtiss Railev M. n
Las Vegas is the distributing noin,
for nearly ali New MEXICO Nv the
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 Fe, Socorr6
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
or 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 h value OF the stocks
which they carry, cannot be duplicat-
cd wes' Of Kansas City and south Of
Beaver. Three merchants brokers
have selected the city as their dis
tributing center. the amount Of their
yearly sales exceeding, in the aggre-
sate, the combined sales of all other
such brokers In New Mexico. The
retail merchants, Of Las Vegas, are
more numerous. and carry larger and
better stocks of goods than do the re-
tail merchants of any other town in
this Territory or Arizona.
Las Vegas has two daily and six
weekly papers, three banks. three
building and loan associations. six no.
tells. MANY boarding houses nine
churches. a number 81 cluhs
and ali Of the leading civic ana
social eocIa,,oa. q roI'or eorr Mill
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