Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-02-06
THE MEADOW CITY.
some Things About Las Vegas Not
Generally Known to the
Outside World.

0SstS0
Outside World.
Las Vegas, meaning THE Meadows"
8 the county seat Of San Miguel coun-
y, lies OF both sides OF the Gailinas
liver, and. with it's suburbs. has about
$1,000 inhabitants.
It has excellent water works. arc
wellfilled stores. beautiful residences
and incandescent electric light plant,
telephone exchanges, headquarters of
the Atchison railway system, Isew
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 a distinc-
tive American city. The streets are
wide and well graded, while sidewalks
abound, shaded with growing trees.
Three parks, filed with grass and
trees, add to the beauty and healthfuI-
ness of the place. Handsome and
and innumerable lawns, set in grass
and adorned with s~hrubbery and
flowers, combine to proclaim a cultur-
ed community. possessed of all mod.
ern comforts and con~veniences.
Las Vegas is the natural sanatO-
rum of the United States, combining
more natural advantages than any
other place in America. Her thermal
uot0rc opo tho ouJ1o1 IF tho Hnf
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 electri-
f1ed-a certain cure 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 SanitarIum. conducted ~ DR..
william Curtiss Bailey. M. d.
Las Vegas is the distributing point
for nearly all New Mexico BY the
Atchison system, she has connection
In the way of health and pleasure
resorts, Las Vegas is u~nrivaled. In a
radius of twenty miles, in romantic
mountain glens and beside babbling
mountain brooks. are the Las Vegas
hot springs. Harvey's, FL Porvenir,
Blake's. Sparks Sapello, Rociada,
and other places, too numerous to
mention. where health can be recov-
cred, and life becomes a pleasure to
the ennuye, the invalid, the over
worked business man.
The latitude is about the 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
degrees-or even more. On
the other hand, In the summer, the
heat is eve 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 every ten, the year round.
This, with the extreme dryness OF the
air, caused by the very slight precip-
of moisture; the resinous aro-
ma, rolling down from the pine-clad
the large Of cleo.
in the air. and the consequent
ozone resulting from the altitude: and
the location Of the town, l~and-locked
by mountain and mesa--thesa all con-
a~&~n - n~1Hvna m r<1r,l~,~o xxv6y1t
Is q balm to all diseases Of the respi- |
organs. The percentage OF
death from consumption is lower in
New Mexico than it is anywhere else
In the United States: aud no other
place in New Mexico excels Las Vegas
n the salubrity of its climate. Asth-
experience immediate and per
manent relief. in this altitude.
with Kansas on the east, Colorado on
the north, Arizona and California on
The west, and Texas and Old Mexico |
IN the south. Besides these, she has |
more stage lines. connecting her with
tributary territory, than has any other
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. Socorra
Dona Ana. Grant, Chaves, Lincoln, and
Eddy with parts OF Valencia and Ber-
1alillo-a country larger than all New
England. This takes in the famous
ralley of the Rio Grande, and the less
Amous. but not less excellent, valley
Il the Pecos-the finest fruit sections
Il the west.
Las Vegas has two daily and six
weekly papers. three banks. three
and loan associations, six ho-
,els. many boarding houses, nine
churches, q number Of clubs,
md all Of the leading civic and
locial societies: . roller four mill,
:apacity, nifty barrels per day:
I've ~woll-scouring establishments,
leaning 5000, 900 pounds OF wool an
= well-ecuipped brewery and
establishment; 4 mandatory
i mineral and carbonated waters;
wagon and carriage factories sad
he and harness factory; q foundry,
light plant, three planning
nills. and other enterprises Of less i'm
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