Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-09-16
SANTA Re.
A Few Facts for the General Informa.
ton Of Tourists and Sight
seers Visiting the
CAPITAL CITY OF NEW MEXICO
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY,

CAPITAL CITY OF NEW MEXICO
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
TERRITORIAL.
Delegate i'll Congress ....... ANTHONY JOSEPH
Governor. ...,..............L BRAbFokD fRlNCE
Acting Solicitor General. r. E. TwITcaELL
Areas,I4er '''''' Antonio ORTIZ sALAzAR
Adjutant General ...,'.,. EDWARD l. BARTLETT
| JUDICIARY.
Chief Justice supreme Court :, r. v: LoNo
| Associate Justice LIST district. ". Il. WHITEMAN
| Associate Justice I'd district. -. W. = LEE
Associate Justice Sd district 800. j. X; MctiE
Presiding Justice 4th district 49,. E, V. LONG
q. i District Attorney ........... THOMAS SMITH
G. s. Marshal .............. .KoMuLo MARTINEZ
Clerk supreme Court SUMMERS BuEKHARr
LAND DEPARTMENT.
VS. surveyor General EDWARD + +. w RobAEP
Receiver Public Moneys JAMES A. sPRADL NC
| U. 5. ARMY
Commander at Fl. Marcy, Col. Henry DOUGLASS
| Adjutant .............. LIEUT. ). y. SEYBCeN
| Quartermaster. ................L Lieut. PLUMaER
sec'y Bureau of Immigration. MAX FROST
U. 8. Int Rev. Collector ....,,. az. McdkoRTf
| 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.
| II 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 men
ton of it shows it then to have been the
capital sand 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
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, 7,455; Glorieta,
1887; Taos, $3.50; Las Vegas, 6,452
Cimarron, 6,489, Bernalillo, 5,704; Albu-
oueroue, 4,91S; Socorro, 1865; Las
Cruces, 1874; 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,
4S.l; 1877, 48.3; 1878, AIS. 1879, 500;
1880, 466; 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
500 miles; from Denver, 1888 miles;
from Trsinidad, 216 miles from Albu-
oueraue, So miles; from Deming, 3l6
miles; from FL Paso, $40 miles from Los
Angeles, 1892 miles: from San Fran
cisco, ! ,2S1 miles.
ELEVATIONS.
The base of the monument in The
grand plaza is, according to latest correct
ed measurements, 7,0l95 feet above the
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
its source), is 2,045 feet high ; the divide
(Tesuque road) 7,171; Aqua Fria, 6,49O;
Cieneguilla (west), 6,025; La Balada,
5,514; mouth of Santa Fe creek (north OF
Pena Blanca), 5,225; Sandia mountains
(highest point, l0,6O8; Old Placers,
6,S0l; Los Cerrillos mountains (south),
1854 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
triumphant marches over this beautiful
oasis, the one in 1891, the other in 1893.
Church of San iguel.-Erected in the
18th century destroyed during the Pueblo.
revolution Of $780,; 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
ually crumbling and instead a grand mod
ern stone structure is building. The old
cathedral was erected in 176l.
Old Fort Marcy was first recognized
and used as strategic military point by
the Pueblo Indians when they revoltod
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 ID gar
risoned by three companies OF the 10th
U. S. infantry, under command OF Cap
tains Gregory Barret, J. F. Stretch and
Duggan, and here at 8 q. m. daily occurs
guard mounting, o feature Of military |
maneuvering ever of interest to the tourist
Other points Of interest to the tourist
are: The Historical Society's rooms; the
"Garita, the military quarter; chapel and
cemetery Of Our Lady Of the Rosary; the
church museum ut the new cathedral, the
archbishop's gardens; church OF our Our
Lady OF Guadalupe :withits 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
hv S;atara nj Charity and the OrpIans'