Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-01-29
4 MEADOW CITY,
some ThinQs About Lac Vegas Not
Generally Known to the
Outside World.

al vAgas, meaning The Meadows"
8 the county seat of San Miguel c0un-
y, lies o both sides of the Gailinas
liver, ind. with it's suburbs, has about
$1,000 inha bitants.
It has excellent water works. arc
well-filled stores. beautiful residences
and incandescent electric light plant,
telephone exchanges, headquarters of
the Atchison railway system. kew
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;
out the plaza and all of the new town.
east of the river, constitute q distinc.
tive American city. The streets are
wide and well graded, while sidewalks
abound, shaded with growing trees.
Three parks, filed with grass and
ness of the place. Handsome and
and adorned with shrubbery and
flowers. combine to proclaim 2 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 electri-
fied-a certain cure for consumption.
If the disease be taken in time. The
hot waters are q specific for liver.
skin, rheumatic and blood disorders.
Her Montezuma hotel is the finest hos.
telry between Chicago and California
and is situated in q 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 Sanitar1um. conducted ~ DIR.
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 unrivaled. In q
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 mer to
mention, where health can be recov.
cred, and life becomes a pleasure to
the ennuye. the invalid, the over
worked business man.
The lauIude IL about the same %
titude Is nearly $500 feet. This com
happy, result. In the winter, during
In the shade, belnu forty degrees.
while It often runs IN the sunshine. to
sixty-nve degrees-or even more. On
the other hand. In the summer, the
heat II never oppressive. In the shade.
and no night II too warm for com
Portable sleep. under one or two
blankets. The sur will shine nine
days out Of every ten, the year round.
This. with the extreme drypess Of the
air, caused by the very slight precip.
itation Of moisture: the resinous aro.
ma, rolling down from the pine-clad
mountains; the large mount Of cleo.
tricity in the air. and the consequent
ozone resulting from the altitude: and
the location IT the town. landlockej
by mountain and mesa--these all con.
spire to produce an atmosphere which
ID 4 balm to all diseases of the respi.
ratory organs. The percentage OF
death from consumption IL lower in
| New Mexico than It Is anywhere else
in the United states: aud 70 other
place in New Mexico excels Las Vegas
in the salubrity Of Its climate. Asth.
matics experience Immediate and per
] uapout yolio2, N this altitude.