Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1907-01-29

with nm enrolment Of $500 ehildreu
and students. Among other schools
are the Academy Of the Immaculate
Conception. conducted by the Sisters
Of Loretto; the Christian Brothers
have a fiourishing institution called
the Ia Sale Institute: a preshyter'
ian mission. a Methodist training.
manual and commercial school In
connection with the Normal Cniver'
sity. az well as several music schools
The city has a Carnegie library,
Las Vegas Is the headquarters o.
the New Mexico division Of the SAT-
ia Fe railway system and has rail
road machine shops, railroad offices
tIe.preserying works and stockyards
and two new lines OF railway are pro
jected into the city. II has two ma
tlonal banks and one savings bank.
sith deposits Of nearly a million DOL
lars. building and loan associations, a
trust company. new and commodious
hotels, restaurants andd boarding
houses. commission and wholesale
firms carrying large stocks OF met
chandise. II Is a noted wool center
and the annual sales Of that staple
reach into the millions, Here are
located a large sheep dipping plant
and a number of securing mills are
operated. There are published at
Las Vegas. The Optic. a daily news
paper: several weekly publications.
including the Weekly Optic, La Voc
del Pueblo. El Independence and La
Revista Catolica. There are fine
church buildings representing the va
rlous denominations. 1t has an
electric railway, electric light plant,
roller mills. mandatory OF mineral
and carbonated waters, carriage and
wagon manufactures. saddle and har.
EHcSS tdttoiicS' paahthS hahhaSs %oH
crete block plant. as we'll as
shop. ice plant, and cold storage
plant. The town has two telephone
exchanges. connecting with Denver
and central southern New Mexico
points. The system Is completed via
Santa Fe to Albuquerque and Socor,
70. A large and well-equipped sani.
|tarium, known al the st. Anthony's.
is conducted by the Sisters OF Char.
ity. There are also Quarries of
building stone near the city. The
Territorial Insane asylum. having &C.
Icommodations for 200 patients, is 10.
Gated here. The headquarters Of the
fourth judicial district is located
here, also the offices of the territor
ial district attorney for San Miguel
and Mora counties.
The Las Vegas Land Grant.
Practically all Of the land In the
immediate vicinity of Las Vegas is
included In the land grant, a magni
ficent body Of 431 900 acres given to
the community by the Mexican gov.
eminent in 1885. Las Vegas is to
day facing the greatest growth in all
Its history, as a result of the various
movements now on foot to settle the
lands of the grant with American
farmers. The future Of the town is
in Its American immigration. The
farmer with a little money viii find
it one OF the most prolific sections
of the entire West for quick and
steady profits on his investment,
Paradise for the Farmer.
In this land grant. a heritage ia
Las Vegas the like OF which is pos.
sessed by no other city in America,
there lies some Of the richest and
most fertile land In all the West.
Heavy clay loan, Of good filth. en-.
riched by centuries of decaying veg.
citation, it contains crop possibili-
ties astounding to the average farm.
or Of the rain belt regions OF the
East. One almost hesitates to cite
actual results accomplished by the
few men who have actually tried
farming in the region. When one
tries to give the average easterner a
true idea Of western possibilities and
products he usually looks at his In.
former as a lineal descendant of An.
anias. and II one proves his state
ments to him, he goes away believ.
ing that he has been made to be.
lieye something that he hadn't ought