Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-11-12
SANTA Re.
4 Few Facts for the General Informa-
ton of Tourists and Sight
Seers Visiting the
CAPITAL CITY OF NEW MEXICO
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.

| UAPlTAL U1II VI NhW MhA1OO'
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
TERRITORIAL.
| Dolegst. I'm CONGRESS- . ANTHONY JOSEPH
| Governor .,.,... l.. BRADFORD PRINCE
| Cecratarv B, NJ. THOMAS
Acting Solicitor General. R. E. TwITGHELa
| Auditor .,............ ..lRlNlDAD AhAhiD
| Adiutant General ....... EDWARD L. BARTLETT
JUDICIARY.
Chief Justice Supreme Court -. r. '. LONG
| Associate Justice lst district w. Ii. WHITEM AN
Associate Justice I'd district. ....... ". y. LEE
Associate Justice Sd district .......J. X; McFlE
| Presiding Justice 4th district, 49,. T. " LONG
| r. & district Attorney . THOMAS SMITH
| r 4 Marshal, ,,,....'..... RoMULo MARTINEZ
| Clerk Supreme Court .... SUMMERS BURKHART
LAND DEPARTMENT.
u. s. Surveyor General. EDWARD F. HoBART
u S. Land Register 49,. ). II. WALLER
Receiver Public Moneys. JAMES A. ePRADLiNG
US. ARMY.
Commander at TT. Marcy, Col. HENRY DOUGLASS
Adutant ............... LIEUT., S. y. SEYBURN
0uartermaster LIEUT. PLUMMER
Discussing O. NJ .... Capt. J. W. summerhayes.
Sec'y Bureau of immigration. MAX FROST
Z. 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 fourlshing 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 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 it's celebrity.
THE CLIMATE
of New Mexico is considered the finest Oh
the continent. The high altitude in
sures dryness and purity Especially
adapted to tle 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, 1855; Glorieta,
1887; Taos, $3.50; Las Vegas, 6,452;
Cimarron, 6, 4S0, Bernalillo, 5,704; Albu-
oueroue, 4,91S; Socorro, 1855; Las
Cruces, 3,S44; Silver City, 5,046; Fl.
Stanton, $500. The mean temperature
at the government station at Santa Fe,
for the years named was as follows 1874,
48.9 degrees; 1875, 1915 degrees; 1876,
48.1; 1877, 1873; 1878, AIS. 1879, 500;
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, %; Minnesota, IA; South
ern States, 6; and New Mexico, 3.
DISTANCES.
Santa Fe is distant from Kansas City
$50 miles; from Denver, 1888 miles;
from Trsinidad, PIG miles; from Albu-
oueroue, So miles; from Deming, 3l6
miles from Ell Paso, $40 miles; from Los
Angeles, 1882 miles; from San Fran
cisco, ,2Sl miles.
ELEVATIONS.
The hnse of the monument in Uhe
grand plaza is, according to latest correct
ed measurements, 7,Ol9.5 feet above the
level of the sea Bald mountain, toward
the northeast and at the extreme north
ern end of the Santa Fe mountains,
1266l feet above sea level Lake Peak, to
the right (where the Santa Fe creek has
its source), is II ,045 feet high; the divide
CTesuoue road) I'LL; Aqua Fria, ,480;
Cieneeuilla (west), 6,O25; La Bajada,
5,514 mouth OF Santa Fe creek (nortn Oh
Pena Blanca), 5,225; Sandia mountains
(highest point, l0,6OS; Ola Placers'
6,S01; Los Cerrillos mountains (sonth),
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 1850, the first governor and
captain general ESQ far as the data at
hand reveals) being Juan de Otermin
The Plaza-Onate and De Vargas made
triumphant marches over this beautiful
oasis, the one in 1891, the other IN 1923.
Church of San Miguel.-Erected in the
10th century destroyed during the Pueblo,
revolution of 1880; rebuilt by order OF
'The Marques de la Penuela, in the
year ITO. , ,,o
The Oldest dwelling house in the
United States is located near San Miguel
church. 1t was built before the Spanish
conquest. u .,
The ancient cathedral's walls are. grad
uallv crumbling and instead grand mod,
ern stone structure is building. The old
cathedral was erected in 1861.
Old Fort Marcy was first recognized
and used as a strategic military point by
the Pueblo Indians when they revoltcc
against Spanish rule in 1880 and drove gu,
he enemy after besieging the city fol
nine days. The American army unoel
Kearney constructed old Fort Marcy IL