Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-09-21
SANTA FE.
A Few Facts for the General Informa-
ton of Tourists and Sight
Seers Visiting the
CAPITAL CITY OF NEW MEXICO.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
TERRITORIAL.
Delegate in Congress .,... ANTHONY EosErs y
Governor ...............L. BRADFORD PRINCE
Acting Solicitor General. R. E. TwlTGHGLL
l Auditor ..............,. TRINIDAD ALAhin y
| Adjutant General ........ EDWARD l.. BARTLETT
| JUDICIARY.
Chief Justice Supreme Court r. V: LONG
| Associate Justice LIST district. W. II. WHITEM AN
| Associate Justice I'd district. 49,. w. y LEE
Associate Justice Sd district ....... J. K. MCfIE
Presiding Justice 4th district. e '. LONG
| r 9 Marshal RoMULo MARTINEZ
| Clerk Supreme Court ..,.. SUMMERS buhAhAhi
LAND DEPARTMENT.
y. $. surveyor General EDWARD + F. WIAEP
q. 8. Land Register y; "ALk h
| Receiver Public Moneys JAMES A. sPRADL Nc
US ARMY.
| Commander at Fl. Marcy Col. Henry DOUGLASS
Adiutant ........ 'LlEqT, .. II o. Or ,i b. Es
RishrripR 9 Capt j. w. summerhayes
Sec'y Bureau OF Immigration. .... MAX Eros,
o. g. Int. Rev. Collector .....,... J.P. MCdRoRTf
HISTORICAL.
Santa Fe, the city of the Holy Faith of
St. Francis, is the capital of New Mexico.
trade center, sanitary. archepiscopal
sec, and also the military headquarters.
It is the Oldest seat Of civil and religious
government on American soil. When
Cabeza de Baca penetrated the valley of
the Rio Grande in 1888 he found Santa
Fe tiourlshing Pueblo village. The his
tory of its first European settlement was
lost. with most of the early records of the
territory, by the destruction OF all the
archives in 1880; but the earliest mem
ton of it shows it then to have been the
capital and the center of commerce,
authority and influence. In 1904 came
the first venturesome American trader
the forerunner of the great line of mer-
chants who have made traffic over the
Santa Fe worldwide in its celebrity.
tf New Mexico is considered the finest on
the continent. The high altitude in
sures dryneas and purity Especially
adapted to Tie permanent cure of pull
monary complaints, as hundreds will be
witness, } and by travelling from point to
point almost any desired temperature
NAV be enjoyed. The altitude of some of
the principal points in the territory is
as follows: Santa Fe, 7,047; Costilla,
7,774; TERRA Amarillo, 1866; Glorieta,
1887; Taos, $3.50; Las Vegas, 6,452;
Cimarron, +, 4S9, Bernalillo, 5,704; Albu-
aueroue, 4,9lS; Socorro, 1865; Las
Cruces, 3,s44; Silver City, 5,946; Fl.
Stanton, $500. The mean temperature
nj the government station at Santa Fe,
for the years named was as follows; 1874,
4S.9 degrees; 1875, 48.6 degrees; 1875,
48.1; 1877, 4S.3; 1878, 47.6. 1879, 500;
1880, 1856; which shows an extraordinary
uniformity. For tubercular diseases the
death rate in New Mexico is the lowest In
the union, the ratio being as follows
New England, %; Minnesota, IA; South
ern States, 6; and New Mexico, 8.
DISTANCES.
Santa Fe is distant from Kansas City
$50 miles; from Denver, 1888 miles;
from Trsinidad, PIG miles; from Albu-
ouerque, IS miles; from Deming, 3l6
miles from FL Paso, 340 miles; from Los
Angeles, 1882 miles: from San Fran
cisco, l,2S1 miles.
ELEVATIONS.
The base of the monument in uhe
grand plaza is, according to latest correct
ed measurements, 7,0l9.5 feet above the
level of the sea Bald mountain, toward
the northeast and at the extreme north
ern end of the Santa Fe mountains,
II, 66l feet above sea level Lake Peak to
the right (where the Santa Fe creek has
its source), is l2,O45 feet high : the divide
(Tesuque road) 7,l7l; Aqua Fra, 6,4SO;
Cteneguilla Cwest), 6,O25; La Bajada,
5 ,5l4; mouth of Santa Fe creek (north OF
Pena Blanca), 1925; Sandia mountains
highest point, l0,6OS; Old Placers,
6 sol; Los Cerrillos mountains (south),
5 ,5S4 feet in height.
POINTS OF INTEREST.
There are some forty various points OF
more or less historic interest in and about
the ancient city:
The Adobe Palace, north side OF the
plaza, has been occupied as an executive
mansion since 1880, the first governor and
captain general $50 far as the data at
hand reveals) being Juan de Otermin
The Plaza--Onate and De Vargas made
marches over this beautiful
oasis, the one in 1891, the other IN 1898,
Church of San Miguel. directed in the
10th century destroyed during the Pueblo
revolution of 1880; rebuilt by order OF
"The Marques de Ia Penuela," in the
year ITO.
The oldest dwelling house in the
United States is located near San Miguel
church. 1t was built before the Spanish
The ancient cathedral's walls are grad.
ually crumbling and instead grand mod
ern stone structure is building. The old
cathedral was erected in 1851.
Old Fort Marcy was first recognized
and used as strategic military point by
the Pueblo Indians when they. revoltcd
against Spanish rule in 1880 and drove out
the enemy after besieging the city for
nine days. The American army under
Kearney constructed old Fort Marcy in
1916.
Fort Marcy of the present day Is gar.
risoned by three companies OF the 10th
u. s. infantry, Under command of Cap
tains Gregory Barrett, J. F. Stretch and
Duggan, and here at 8 a. m. daily occurs
guard mounting, feature of military
maneuvering ever Of interest to the tourist.
Other points of interest to the tourist
are: The Historical Society rooms; the
"Garita, the military quarter; chapel and
cemetery of Our Lady of the Rosary; the
church museum at the new cathedral, the
archbishop's gardens; church of our Our
Lady of Guadalupe with its rare old works
of art; the soldiers monument, monu-
ment to the Pioneer Pathfinder. XII,
Carson, erected by the q. A. r. of New
Mexico; St. Vincent hospital, conducted
by Sisters of Charity, and the Orphans