Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-08-13
THE MEADOW CITY.
Some Things About Las Vegas Not
Generally Known to the
Outside World.

6NeN ~ q 6QCA AOQu-
y. lies on both sides OF the Gailinas
1yer, and. with its suburbs, has about
10000 inhabitants.
It has excellent water works. arc
well-dlled stores. beautiful residences
and incandescent electric light plant.
telephone exchanges, headquarters OF
the Atchiscn railway system, Aew
Mexico division. together with rail.
road machine shops and tie-preserying
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, filled with grass and
trees, add to the beauty and healthful.
ness OF the place. Handsome and
q innumerable lawns, set in grass
and adorned with shrubbery and
flowers. combine to proclaim a 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. Thera 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,
II 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 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 Sanitarilm. conducted
BY the Sisters Of Charity. and the
Pls7a Sanitar1um, conducted ~ Ur.
" 4 Curtiss Bailey, M. D.
= Vegas fs the distributing poiny
TO. 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 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 Re, Socorra
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
Of 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 the value D; the stocks
which they carry, cannot be duplicat-
ed wess Of Kansas City and south Of
Delver. Three merchants brokers
have selected the city as their dis
tribu.ing center, the amount Of their
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.
Las Vegas has two daily and six
weekly papers. three banks, three
building and loan associations, six ho-
tells. many boarding houses, nine
churches. . number Of clubs,
and all Of the leading civic and
social societies; q roller dour mill,
capacity. fifty barrels per day:
1ve w0llscouring establishments,
cleaning 1900. 900 pounds Of wool an.
nually; Q wellecuipped brewery and
bottling establishment; a mandatory
OF mineral and carbonascd waters;
three wagon and carriage factories sad
die and harness factory; foundry,
electric light plant, three planning
mills, and other enterprises of less i'm.
portAnce.
A city hall. four public school build.
hugs, courthouse. Masonic temple, Cd
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 edinces IN any town. OF
equal size. In the states.
The latitude ID about the same q
that Of central Tennessee, while the al
tttude 10 nearly $500 feet. This com.
bination gives . 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 n the sunshine, 10
sixty-hve degrees-or even more. On
the other hand. In the summer. the
hest Ii never oppressive. 10 the shade,
and no night il too warm for can.
Portable sleep. under one or two
Markets. 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 reslnous aro-
ma. rolling down from the pineaclad
mountains. the large amount OF elee.
triclty In the air. and the consequent
ozone resulting from the altitude: and
the location ~ the town, land locked
By mountain and mesa-ihese I'll con