Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1883-06-27
The santa Fe Celebration.

Mexico, beginning July 2nd and clos
ing August Sd, is an occasion of little
less Importance than the great Centen-
nial Exposition of 1876. Great prepar-
ations are being made to insure its sue
cess, and the attendance from all parts
of the country promises to be large.
The celebration is designed to COM
memorate the three hundred and thirty
third anniversary of the settlement of
Santa Fc, the oldest town in the United
States, and it can therefore be seen that
the event IS one of more than ordinary
historic interest. st. Augustine, Bos-
ton, Savannah, and all the other cities
of the country which claim any sort of
antiquity whatever seem youthful when
compared 10 this elderly dame, and it
! is something to be proud of that we can
! boast of q town which had attained
most respectable age when the pilgrims
landed on Plymouth Rock and when
jamestown was settled. 1t is intended
that this celebration shall be national
and not at all local in its character,
and the people of the territory OF New
Mexico have therefore applied them
selves to this end.
The exposition, which will be 4 prOmi-
ncnt feature, will consist mainly of an
exhibition of the products, resources
and capabilities of New Mexico. There
will be displayed specimens OF ores
from her numerous mines, many OF
them among the richest of the world,
which possess the advantage of being
worked all the year round, so perfect
is the climate, and when it is remem-
bered that since anything whatever has
been done toward opening up the hid
den riches of the territory the proper
tionate increase of the output has been
larger than that of any other state or
territory in the country, no doubt can
be entertained that the claim of the eX-
traordinary capacity and value of the
mineral of New Mexico is true. The
territory, in addition TO its gold and sill
yer. possesses vast coal fields that yield
marvelously; it affords splendid grazing
grounds for numberless cattle and sheep,
: and in the fertile valleys, orchards anc
vineyards gives forth in goOdly abun
dance. This is the practical side of the
celebration, for the Territory will show
> in the greatest profusion the produc
OF her mines, plains. fields and valleys
All this will be of interest TO the
visitor, for he is naturally concerned
IN .he growth and development of th'
2 country, and should he be engaged il
. mining, stock-raising or agriculture
r might attract him more than any Othc
- feature but the average tourist who
e win be in attendance upon the cclebra
J., tioa NAV find himself drawn to tn
= other characteristics OF the exhibition
= il.,. 4 4 A Asgf,
= curositics and the implements, arm
s and ornaments Of the sixteenth ant
e seventeenth centuries; the pageant
5 represonting tine coming OF the Spani,
n c0nqucrors; the representations of tn
Il various civilizations the country ha
e sccn-thGt Of the ancient actors, tina
: which the Spanish conquerors brough
l. and the last, which is that of The ire
r. pressiblc and Omniprescnt American
d the Indian games, races, dances, ol
:. ScrVanccs, sites, ceremonies and shan
n battles; the Mexican fandango an
:. other sports, and those other attraC
c tjOns which, we may say, are really 10
% numerous to mCrtiOn. The seventeenth
q eighteenth and nineteenth days OF th
If exposition, which will be the 18th, lot
1l and 20th of July, will probably be tn
lO most interesting TO the visitors bcc2Us
ne these three days are to be devoted 20
So Uroscutatiou OF historic scenes cXtenC
.d ing over the lcrtiO-millcunial periOC
each day 10 represent q century Of hi
tory ana progress. These will be i
Iu,natoi by cayalcadcs i'm cOStuu
Is representing the several distinctive e.
n pcdilious into New Mexico. This wi
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