Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-09-17
SANTA Re.
A Few Facts for the General Informa,
ton of Tourists and Sight
Seers Visiting the
CAPITAL CITY OF NEW MEXICO.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.

n OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
n TERRITORIAL.
n Delegate In Congress. ...... ANTHONY JOSEPH
y Governor ..................L. BRADFORD PRINCE
Acting Solicitor General. 49,. R. E. TwITcHELI
i Treasurer 49,, .. e. ANTONIO ORTIZ Y sALAgAR
Adiutant General ........ EDWARD l.. BARTLETT
JUDICIARY.
!, Chief Justice Supreme Court . V. LONG
Associate Justice 1st district. W. II. Written AN
Associate Justice I'd district. ...:.... w b. LEE
Associate Justice Sd district .....J. X: McFIE
, Presiding Justice 4th district ...... E. V. LONG
U. $. District Attorney ........... THOMAS SMITH
Z. 5. Marshal .............. .RoaULO MARTINEZ
Clerk Supreme Court ...... SUMMERS BuRKHART
LAND DEPARTMENT.
U.s. surveyor General EDWARD : + HohAET
Receiver Public Moneys JAMES A. sPRADLtNG
US. ARMY.
Commander at TT. Marcy, Col. HENRY DOUGLASS
Adjutant ............ .lIEUT. ). I. SEfBt'RN
Quartermaster ,............. LIEUT.. PLUMMER
sec'y Bureau of immigration. ..... MAX FROST
U. s. Int. Rev. Collector 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.
1t 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 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 tie permanent cure of pull
monary 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, 1856; Glorieta,
1887 Taos, $3.50; Las Vegas, 6,452;
Cimarron, 6,489, Bernalillo, 5,704; Albu-
querque, ABS; Socorro, 1865; Las
Cruces, 3,s44; Silver City, 5,946; Fl.
Stanton, $500. The mean temperature
at the government station at Santa Fe,
for the years named was as follows; 1874,
4S.9 degrees; 1875, 1876 degrees; 1875,
48.1; 1877, 1873; 1873, 47.6. 1879, 500;
1880, 46.6; 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
1863 miles; from Denver, 1888 miles;
from Trsinidad, PIG miles; from Albu-
auerque, IS miles; from Deming, 316
miles; from FL Paso, $40 miles; from Los
Angeles, 1882 miles: from San Fran
cisco, 1921 miles. ,
ELEVATIONS.
The base of the monument in The
grand plaza is, according to latest correct
ed measurements, 7,0l9.5 feet above the 1
level of the sea Bald mountain, toward
The northeast and at the extreme north
ern end of the Santa Fe mountains,
IL ,661 feet above sea level; Lake Peak, to -
the right (where the Santa Fe creek has
it's source, is IL, 045 feet high the divide
,Tesuque road) 7,l7l; Aqua Fria, $3.50;
(west), 6,025; La Bajada,
5,5l4; mouth of Santa Fe creek (north of
Pena Blanca), 1925; Sandia mountains
highest point, 10,6OS; Old Placers,
) 1901; Los Cerrillos mountains (south),
1884 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
,aptain general $50 far as the data at &
land reveals) being Juan de Otermin
The Plaza-Onate and De Vargas made =
marches over this beautiful
,asis, the one in 1901, the other in 1893.
Church of San Miguel. directed in the =
9th century destroyed during the Pueblo
evolution of 1880; rebuilt by order OF
The Marques de la 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
conquest.
The ancient cathedral's walls are grad A
Tally crumbling and instead a grand mod
,rn stone structure is building. The old Z
was erected in 1851.
Old Fort Marcy was first recognized =
md used as strategic military point by /
he Pueblo Indians when they revoltcd
against Spanish rule in 1880 and drove out
he enemy after besieging the city for
line days. The American army under
kearney constructed old Fort Marcy in
l848.
Fort Marcy of the present day is gar
.isoned by three companies of the 10th
y. 8. infantry, under command of Cap
aims Gregory Barrett, J. F. Stretch and n
Duggan, and here at 8 a. m. daily occurs
guard mounting, feature OF military
naneuvering ever of interest to the tourist.
Other points of interest to the tourist F
are The Historical Society g 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, Kit
Carson, erected by the G.. A. r. of New
Mexico; St. Vincent hospital, conducted
by Sisters Of Charity, and the Orphans