Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-11-06
SANTA g-E.
4 Few Facts for the General Informa-
tion Of Tourists and Sight"
SeerB Visiting the
CAPITAL CITY OF NEW MEXICO.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
TERRITORIAL.

| TERRITORIAL
Delegate in Congress ...... ANTHONY JOSEPH
Governor ................L BRADFORD PRINCE
| Secretary w 3. NJ. THOMAS
A aetin" Solicitor General. R. Z. TwITcnELI
| Auditor ......,,........-.... TRINIDAD ALhftL
| Treasurer ...- ANTONIO ORTIZ SALAzAF
| Adiutant General ....... EDWARD L. BARTLETT
! JUDICIARY.
Chief Justice Supreme Court. -. v. LoFG
| Associate Justice lst district. W. II. WHlTEM AN
Associate Justice I'd district. ". y LEE
| Associate Justice 30 district .......J. 4: MctlE
| Presiding Justice tth district 49,, e. ', LONG
T. = District Attorney RoNJ rl,o' MSR 9TS
Clerk supreme Court $50. SUMMERS BUEKHARI
LAND DEPARTMENT.
r. 9 Surveyor General. -. EDWARD F. HOBART
u. s. Land Register ..... 49,. J. Il. WALLER
Receiver Public Moneys JAMES a. SPRADLING
us. ARMY.
Commander at TT Marcy, Col. HENRY DOUGLASS
AdutAnt .............. LIEUT.. 5. \. SEYBuRS
QuaTtCrmaSteT. .......- LIEUT.. fLGHlNlEh
Sec'y Bureau OF lmmigration..... MAX FROST
q. 8. Int Rev. Collector, ..J.P. McdRoRTY
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
(}abc2a dc Baca penetrated the valley of
tIe Rio Grande in 1888 he found Santa
Ee nourshing Pueblo village. The his
tory OF its first European settlement was
lost, with most of the early records of the
territory, Ny the destruction of all the
archives in 1850; but the earliest men
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.
THE CLIMATE
Of New Mexico is considered the finest on
the continent. The high altitude in
sures dryness and purity Especially
adapted to the permanent cure of pull
monarv complaints, as hundreds will be
Witness and by travelling from point to
point almost any desired temperature
may 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, 1855; Glorieta,
1857; Taos, $3.50; Las Vegas, GASP;
Cimarron, 6,4S0, Bernalillo, 5,704; Albu-
oueroue, 4,918; Socorro, 1865; Las
Cruces, 3,S44; Silver City, 5,046; TT.
Stanton, $500. The mean temperature
at the government station at Santa Fe,
for the years named was as follows; 1874,
48.9 degrees; 1875, 4S.6 degrees; 1876,
48.1; 1877, 48.3; 1878, AIS. 1879, sos;
1880. 46.G; 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, 25; Minnesota, IA; South
ern States, 6; and New Mexico, 8.
DISTANCES.
Santa Fe is distant from Kansas City
1853 miles; from Denver, 1888 miles;
from Trsinidad, ZIG miles, from Albu-
So miles; from Deming, 316
miles from Ell Paso, $40 miles from Los
Angeles, 1892 miles; from San Fran
cisco, | ,2S1 miles.
ELEVATIONS.
The base of the monument IN VIE
grand plaza is, according to latest correct
ed measurements, 7,0lJ.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,
l2 ,6G1 feet above sea level; Lake Peak,to
the right (where the Santa Re creek mas
its source, is II, 045 feet high; the DIVIDE
(Tesuque road) III; Aqua Frla, 6,48O;
Cieneguilla (west), 6,025; La BaJada.
) ,514; mouth of Santa Fe creek (north OF
Pena Blanca), 5,225; Sandia mountains