Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-03-21

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Canyon OF Arizona, opened the middle
OF January, is already doing a fine
business, Between 200 and 800 guests
can be accommodated there. On sew.
eral occ sions the limit has been al.
most rca5 he'd.
II locks as though 1905 would be a
record.breaker The Santa Fe were
quite wen pleased with the total OF
$4,000 Grand Cayon visitors in 1904.
as compared with l2,700 for the year
previous, They will not be satisfied
with less lhan $4,000 for this year.
The reason for the expected large
Increase is easy TO find, The best
class of travtl win only 80 where the
hotel facilities are high.class. lei To.
var admirably supplies this need.
To begin with, III Tovar is managed
by Mr., Eaeyey. Anybody who has
stopped at the Alyarado. in Albuquer-
que, the Castancda in Las Vegas, or
who has eaten the kind of meals that
Mr.. Harvey furnishes in Santa Fe
dining-cars and dining.rooms, does not
need to be told what Harvey quality
Is.
Then the hotel itself is so delight
full. Imagine a big country-club house.
three to four stories high, built OF
native boulders and pine logs, COM
bining the best points of a Swiss chal.
ct and q Norway villa, all set down in
the pine woods on the rim of a titanic
ohasm. 1000 feet above the sea. From
the wide porches and ROOT gardens
n looks acros thirteen dizzy miles
to the opposite canyon wall, and
straight downward a full mile,
The hundred bedrooms of FL Toyar
each have sunshine and an outlook on
the canyon. Such luxuries (for Ari-
zona) as steam heat, electric light,
spring water and room telephones are
generously provided. Merely that you
may have pure water to drink, 1t Is
brought from a mountain spring 1870
miles distant.
FL Tovar was named for Don Pedro
de Tovar, one of Coronado's lieuten-
ants and a member of the little Span
ish army that traversed this country
in 1910. 1t is a fad of the Santa Fe
and Mr.. Harvey TO name their finest
railway station hotels after the Span
iards Of st the coanqusessSSwudfaoegr dfGNFa.mple
c~astaneda, at Las Vegas. and the Car
denas, at Trinidad.
Conductor Joe Burks is offlclallni
on Jerry Quinn's passenger run.
Twenty more railroad laborers ar
rived at Watrous yesterday from
Kansas City.
Engineers Hartley, Hammer an
Jessoy and Firemen King, Orehar
and Carney are held for an investigt
ton.
II is thought that California fru'
will soon be passing through Las v
gas by the train load, now that tn
blockade has been raised,
Night Waterman Hignett has reslg
ed his position in the local yards al
will pack his trunk and go TO u
sister republic in quest of a bet'
job.
Bailey Moore, a local a repair'
has gone to southern Illinois, whe
he is interested in some coal ian
ont of which he confidently expet
10 make a fortune some day.
Chas. Kurvink of San Francis
has succeeded Jas. Adair as ms
operator at the Santa Fe depot IN
zorro. n. NJ. Mr.. Adair goes to
Paso to accept a position In a &C
mercial office.
Del Gatchel, The passenger con
tor. is having another tussle with
old and persistent enemy, the RI
matism. It is with difficulty that
is able 10 hobble about at all, III
less manipulate a ticket punch 0
bell cord.
A. H. Moffet, who began his &c
railroad career as station agent
the SANTA Fe at Hutchinson. Kan
many years ago has been elm
up the ladder ever since. He is
general eastern passenger agentof