Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-02-20
Of the Pecos-the finest fruit sections

Of the Pecos-the finest fruit sections
| Of the west.
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 Of clubs
and all of the leading civic and
| social societies; a roller -four mill.
capacity, fifty barrels per day;
five woll-scouring establishments
| cleaning 5000, 900 pounds of wool In
nually; a well-ecuipped brewery saEd
bottling establishment; 4 mandatory
| of mineral and ~carbonated waters;
three wagon and carriage factories sad
die and harness factory; a foundry,
electric light plant, three planning
mills, and other enterprises of less i'm
pOrtance.
A city hall, four public school build
iAgs, courthouse, Masonic temple, op-
era house, Territorial Normal school
and Territorial insane asylum and pub
lie buildings, constructed of red and
white sandstone, unsurpassed in beau
ty by similar edifices in any town, of
equal size. in the states.
In the way of health and pleasure
resorts, Las Vegas is ~unrivalel. 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,
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
sixty-ive degrees-Or even more. On
the other hand, in the summer, the
heat is W oppressive. in the shade,
and no night is too warm for com
Portable sleep, under one OF 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-
| itation OF moisture; the resinous arc
I D1d, ~ ANVIL IL 49,
| mountains; the large ansuunr of elec-
| tricity in the air, the consequent
| ozone resulting from the altitude; and
| the location Of the town, land-i0ckel
| by mountain and mesa--thesa ell con
| spire to produce an atmosphere which
is a balm to all diseases of The respi.
ratory organs. The percentage OF
death from consumption is lower in
| New Mexico than It is anywhere else
in the United States; and 10 other
place in New Mexico excels Las Vegas
in the ~salubrity of its climate. Asth'
matics experience immediate and per
manent relief. in this altitude.
This Territory is rich in everything
iron, copper, coal. lead, silver, gold,
| that constitutes the wealth of nations,
mica, limestone, sandstone, marbles
gypsum, salt, soda in endless variety and
exhaustless quantities, are among the
several products of the country which
Las Vegas commands. Sheep, cattle
and lumber abound, SO that in each
Of these prime articles of commerce
this city is the best market in New
Mexico. She handles more wool than
all the other towns in the Territory
combined, while her commerce in hides
Is truly enormous. In the same way
she stands pre-eminent for her trade
in grains, hay, vegetables. and other
farm products; while her trade in ice
gathered in the neighboring mountain
canyons. extends east into Kansas
west into Arizona. and south into OLD
Mexico.
There are eight large wholesale
houses, whose trade extends through
out the Territory, and into the ad
joining sections: while the volume oi
this trade. and the value OF the stocks
which they carry, cannot be duplicat
ed YES. Of Kansas City and south OF
Beaver. Three merchants brokers
have selected the city as their dis
tributing center, the amount Of theil
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 and
better stocks of goods than do the 70
tail merchants Of any other town in
this Territory or Arizona.