Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1907-01-28

,,loy upwards Of twentyone 'eae@FFS !
u,,h AN enrolment Of :2oo children
and students. Among other schools
ara the Academy of the Immaculate
CONGESTION, conducted By the Sisters
Of Inret;o: the Christian Brothers
have a fl~ourishing institution called
,he la sale Institute; q P~Fesbster-
ian mission. a Methodist training.
manual and commercial sch'"l In
connection with the Normal tniv"r'
.,,x A. well as several music schools
The city has Ia Carnegie library,
Las Vegas IL the headquarters o.
the New Mexico division Of the San
tn F. railway system and has rail-
road machine shops. railroai offices
tIeepreserying works and stockyards
and Two new lines Of railway are pro
! I..cted into the city. Ii has two ma
tlonal banks and one savings bank.
aith deposits Of nearly a million d"''
lars. building and loan associations. q
trust company. new and commodsous
hotels, restaurants andd boarding
houses. commission and wholesale
firms carrying large stocks OF n!ef'
chandise. 1t 10 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. FL Independence and La
iReyista CatOlica. There are fine
church buildings representing the va
rious denominations. II has an
electric railway. electric light plant,
roller mills, mandatory OF mineral
and carbOnated waters, carriage and
wagon manufactures. saddle and bar.
ness factories. planning mills. con-
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-
no. A large and well-equipped sani-
tarium, known as the st. Anthony's,
is conducted by the Sisters of Char
ity. There are also quarries OF
building stone e the city. The
Territorial Insane asylum, having &C
commodations for 200 patients, is To-.
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
p the community by the Mexican gov.
g eminent in 1885. Las Vegas is to
1 day facing the greatest growth in all
:, it's history. as a result OF the various
movements now on foot to settle the
D lands Of the grant with American
\ farmers. The future Of the town is
In its American immigration. The
farmer with q little money will find
? 1t one Of the most prolific sections
a Of the entire West for quick and
/ steady profits on his investment.
Paradise for the Farmer.
In this land grant, a heritage to
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. 1t contains crop possibili.
) ties astounding to the average farm
: or Of the rain belt regions of toe
East. One almost hesitates to cite
actual results accomplished by the
/ few men who have actually tried
e farming In the region. When one
tries to give the average easterner a
l. true idea Of western possibilities and
e products he usually looks at his in
former as a lineal descendant of An
i, anias. and il one proves his state
/ ments to him, he goes away believ
ing that he has been made to be
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