Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-08-09

The municipal government was prac.
tically supported by the gamblers and
the saloons. the revenue from those
sources being between $4,000 and
$4,000 year My friend tells me
that between seventy and eighty pro-
fessional gamblers wers employed In
these establishments to run the
games; and that the combiped psy
rolls amounted to between $4,000 and
| sl5,C30 month. But now everything
is closed tight up. and it was dore by
committee of citizens. who came 10
the conclusion that gambling was a
bad thing for the town. For a long
time the contrary opinion prevailed.
| 1t was believed to be good thing to
have the gambling houses open. Peo-
| pie thought it made things lively. and
attracted money and trade to the
town. That is the story they tell you
in albuquerque. You hear the same
tale in every wide open town. At
Muskogee. Ind. Ter. several people
asserted that the prohibition regula-
tions were killing the town. The
people of Deadwood, however, came to
a different conclusion. and now the
merchants expect that much of the
money which went over the gambling
tables will go over their counters in
stead
Many of the people of Albuquerque
do not like the name of the town. II is
| awkward and foreign and they often
| latya ty, t1NN ,et
| which show an amazing amount Of
ignorance and wound their vanity.
! Men Of intelligence and education
write to the banks. newspapers and
officials out here. inquring what lam
guage is snoken in Albuquerque and
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Of Las Vegas, that as yet the portion
I Of said road between the said Las
Vegas Hot Springs and the limits of
Las Vegas has not been fixed and de-
fined by this honorable board: that
the Hot Springs boulevard, a street
and public road, running from the
court house in Las Vegas to the Las
Vegas Hot Springs is the most prac-
ticable, as well as most direct route
to the said court house in Las Vegas
that said Hot Springs boulevard has
been surveyed and plated by the
county surveyor of San Miguel county.
competent civil engineer. in ac.
cordance with the terms and provi.
sions of the said act of the legislative
assembly, and your petitioners there
fore pray that the said Hot Springs
boulevard be now declared to be a
part and portion of the said public
wagon road, created by the said act
and that the prisoners authorized to
work upon and grade the same. be
directed and instructed to work upon
and grade the said Hot Springs
boulevard, from the limits of Las
Vegas, to the said Las Vegas Hot
Springs and that the same be main
tanned as a Part Of the public wagon
road contemplated and provided for by
said act.
Your petitioners further represent
that the said Hot Springs boulevard
can be converted into good and easy
wagon road with very little expense
! and labor. for the reason that thu
board of county commissioners of SaT
Miguel county have heretofore con
structed upon the said road large ant
expensive stone culverts and alread,
made the same apart OF the said pub
|lic road and the authorities of La.
Vegas have also graded the same Il
the limits Of Las Vegas.
I Your petitioners further represen
that there is now located upon the
said Hot Springs boulevard the La
Vegas insane asylum. the largest ter
ritorial institution in New Mexico ant
also that the Santa Fe railroad hos
; pital is located on said boulevard ant
the same passes the main entrance o
the Gallinas driving park.
Action Of Commissioners.
;, The board of county commissioner
took the following action on the peti
ton:
Now on this day come, Eugenio Re
nero and John d. w. veeder an,
present to this board petition signc'
by MANY of the residents of the tow
of Las Vegas and the county Of Sal
Miguel asking that the board establis
and fix that portion OF the publ
road, known as the "Scenic Road.