Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-01-27

for nearly all New Mexico BY 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 ia 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, 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 famou
valley of the Rio Grande, and the less
famous, but not less excellent, valley
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;
AVO WOAA-SCOul4A
cleaning 5000, 900 pounds of wool an
nually; a w~ell-ecuipped brewery ard
bottling establishment; n mandatory
of mineral and carbonated waters;
three e and carriage factories sad
die and harness factory; a foundry,
electric light plant, three planning
| mills, and other enterprises of less i'm
%pOrtance.
Thnrn nrn nJOhf IarO0 Whnl0C9In
| 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 we 81 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-
| gate, the combined sales Of all other
| such brokers in New Mexico. The
I 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.
public school, a kindergarten, a COM
| mercial school and music schools, be-
1 S1QCS SCNCIdl Rl4t0tC tSdSANASS -
| among the educational advantages
and facilities.
A convent school, Presbyterian mis-
| sion school, Methodist manual train
| ing school, Christian Brothers insti-
| tute, City high school, three-graded
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 thar
| all the other towns in the Territory
combined, while her commerce in hides
! is truly 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.