Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1883-02-25
SANTA FEE. NEW MEXICO.
ITS $3.50 Anniversary to be Cele.
brated In Grand style.

us $3.50 Anniversary to be Cele.
brated In Grand style.
There will be a grand national celebra-
ton at Santa Fe, New Mexico, during the
month of July, concentrating the 333d
anniversary of the settlement Of the old
est town in the United States. In the
thirteen original States jamestown was the
Oldest settlement u6O7); when Florida
was acquired from Spain, st. Augustine
bounded in 1865 became the moot ancient,
and In 1916, by the conquest of New Mex
leo, we came into the possession of Santa
Fe, which could boast an antiquity consid-
erably greater than any other. The whole
people of New Mexico have taken hold Of
the proposed observance, and with such
zeal as to leave no doubt of its complete
success. The whole month of July will be
devoted to the celebration, that time being
selected both because it is the most con-
venient period for business men and tour
lists from the East to attend, and also be-
cause the weather of New Mexico at that
season is absolutely perfect, each day
being clear and bright, while the high alti-
tude makes the temperature cool and de-
Eghtful. 1t is proposed to have two great
exhibitions in permanent buildings, CON-
tinuing throughout the celebration-one
OF historical relics and curiosities, aud the
other Of the mineral and other productions
OF the Territory. There will be much Of
more than ordinary interest to the visitor
to his proposed merry-making of our
%neighbors. No part of the United States
presents matter Of historical interest that
can in any way compare with that of New
Mexico. Here were the cliff jewellers, and
the cave cities; here came Cabeza de Baca
on his wonderful journey across the
continent in 1881, and Coronado on
his expedition to the famed Gland
Of the seven cities" in 1541.
1t speaks volumes for the heroism and
prowess of the early Spanish conquerors
that within twenty years after Cortez had
taken possession of Mexico, q Spanish ex-
petition had penetrated through the whole
of New Mexico to the great buffalo
plains. a distance of 1900 miles, while it
took the English settlers on the Atlantic
seaboard more than a century to reach the
valley of the Mississippi. The story Of
the old Spanish expeditions and the early
settlement of Santa Fe and other points
is a series of romantic adventures and of
hardships nobly borne. New Mexico to-
day presents the extraordinary spectacle of
NV SlNiliZatAous, ACPAC-
senting different epochs in the worlds
history, living and fourishing side by
side. The Pueblo Indians present the
aboriginal civilization exactly as Cabeza
de Baca found it $50 years ago. The
houses, manner and customs are precisely
as they then were. They are the same
honest, Industrious, intelligent race that
they were when Coronado's expedition
stopped at Zuni and passed through Jemez
and Santa Fe. They represent the Oldest
| type of American civilization of which we
have any knowledge. Then the Spanish
population, which for 200 years was practi-
| cally isolated from the rest of the world,
presents in a crystallized form the customs
of the seventeenth century in the last part
Of the nineteenth. The people show the
| generosity, hospitality, high spirit and
chivalric feeling characteristic of the old
days of CASTLE and Leon. And side by
side with these is the active, energetic,
busting American civilization of to-day;
building railroads, telegraphs and tele-
phones, and making the country hum with
industry. There will be a great deal to in
terest the Tourist and visitor, and steps
are already being taken for excursions
from the East, which will be so arranged
that those desiring it can also visit the
mineral exhibition at Denver, or take a
trip into Mexico.