Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-11-18

| U. ,. ANN
Commander at TT. Marcy, Col HENRY DOUGLASS
Adjutant.. .............. LIEUT.. .. b.. oE1 bl kS
= Ouartcrmaster .....,.........L LIEUT.. PLUMMER
Dlsbursing Q. NJ ... Capt. J. W. summerhayes
Sec'y Bureau of immigration .....: MAX Frost
q. s. Int Rev. Collector. ......... J.P. MCGRoRTY
HISTORICAL.
Santa Fe, the city of the Holy Faith OF
St. Francis, is the capital of New Mexico.
trade center, sanitary. archepisCOpal
see, 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 a hourlshing Pueblo village. The his
tory of it's 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 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
Ct 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
monary complaints, as hunureus wlI DE
point almost any desired temperature
poinC 1 nr,;o,,od Tbe altitude of some of
t i,Iy , wi noints in the territory ia
o Ot,o fdlinws. Santa Fe. 7,O47: Costilla.
177A. Tierra Amarillo 7'455: Glorieta,
77'so7, Tons o5O. las Vegas. 452:
C TO- ~ e aeo RernaliIlo + 2O4. Albu-
Lila -,,araro dd'oIs Socorro 4655. Las
T 9uuid0' Q az. Silver Civ. ( 946 n
S Ston4nn soo The mean temperature
% .io noUernment station of Santa Fe.
s .r v tho Gears named was as follows: 1874.
40 40 ''l dcoraos. 1875, 48,6 degrees: 1876.
al 1o' 1877 AZ 2. 1878, 47.6. 1879 5O,6:
1900 AZ which shows an extraordinary
roG ;f6,r ro;t For t,1bercular diseases The
death rate in New Mexico is the lowest in
the union, the ratio pelng as lolloWs;
NO a,o" ct to q and New Mexico, 2
Gil 0''''''' ~ ''''>'
DISTANCES.
Santa Fe is distant from Kansas City
1863 miles; from Denver, 338 miles;
from Trsinidad, ZIG miles; from Albu-
oueroue, SIS miles; from Deming, 316
miles from FL Paso, $40 miles, from Los
Angeles. 1882 miles: from San Fran
cisco, PSI miles.
ELEVATIONS.
I'M , - 49, r,onrrort in Tho
me Lase VI oo I,,r to LATEST correct
erailu plaza -, 49, Old < foot above the
, eu nIe ~ tba eea RAID mountain toward
t Iro no VI and Of the extreme north
tne noflhfa "a tt aie ea ~ aii Eo mountoins
e or co eilu ~ VIZ aan io1.oI ToEa peak to
~ ,ool 1eee uo.'so ~. Io co,,to Eo croer has
;ts sn17rceS ia 70 045 feet high the divide
l tS source, ID EYE ~, i n1e MO & 400
Siesuque roaul .,t'i !. o. o. To Po;ada
Cienegullia l"esT, o' ~ o,,oair fnortb of
J,olf p niouoat - : SoE. condio mountains
Iena blancal, o'|1 20 eo S' GA placers
ShlgnesG PoItl'Ii io'Uoo o,,+o;ns 1sonthI
o,oo! LOS GeIil ht i'io"'''"''' >l''N''
o,oo4 left III he'si'''
POINTS OF INTEREST.
Tboro ora Soma FORTY various points of
,d nm az ,oas historic interest in and about
~, .iioi $3.50, VI lo1a o ;t,1.0i
Ih ga ancie1 1I Ivy po,ooo north side of.tbe
u,1 ino t 49, boon occ,1n;ad az an executive
piaHa; l,"o ;, uue 1900 tba first Governor and
Liaus!oh o,roo io Iso far 90 fhe data of
captain seil 'G a Wv I ,,, do 0tern,in
haIlu rg p, Oo,S ord no VARGAS made
Ane laA" or nd,o nuor +his beautiful
triumphant hiaiGile1 t tko ot t IN 1909
OASIS, the one III i29l, Siio 1 Tvlo IN tha
Church Oh oan MleuGi.5 G,oo ~ puobio
loth century uesspoyeo uii b. WY, order of
f fts VI lo1o aog pn,,oIo ,; in tho
Inc Marques oe l" ehu0'"'
year lIlO; ,. ,,o :, tho
The OLDEST evening aious g., N1;u,ol
United STATES Is iocateu neaf pa Iaii c n
church. LII WAS D'lii' oe'oio '''0 'f'''''' 1871
conquest. o,,odxops vollo GRO orad.
Inc ancieiiL ca. n5 ateod ans @rand mod.
ually crumplhs anu liis.e e;d; 'T Tha n' IA
ern stone structure cure y j.; pu 11eI '"' VIZ
catnedral was eieotou 40 fust ro,oc,ivoa
ga foIt hiafot c, Ga9 n, iiao e ro;nt bu
and used as sira.egaJ ii' thcv p rerol.od
the fueolo inalalis Mii ,eeo . nn3 drovo ont
against spanish rue IN dGoo "ti oi o;t,, G f
the enemy AFTER pesleglns .me , 1't ,,nd ior
nlne days Inc AlheIiIaIl ANY N.Y. uno =;
kearney constructor oio rof' ""'o' III
l846. ,o n.o,ont dov 20 cor
Fort Marcy Oh 'ne pieSen. o u"t ,ba nh s
rlsoned by three com panieS u Wy. Wv r rN,l
U: y. infantry, nhuer Goll1ii G.notob ZAP
talns gregory t barae ~ m o', Soiiu Occurs
r,or3 n1nuntinp. a feature of military
maneuvering ever OF interest," 10 the tourlst:
Other points o! lneerest W. .ie .ou tio
are: Ihe historical society l1onis' .nS
"Garita, the military quarter chapel anu
| cemetery OF Our Lazy OF tne ROSARY Clle