Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-02-04

4 Few Facts for the General Informa-
zion of Tourists and Sight.
Seers Visiting the
CAPITAL CITY OF NEW MEXICO
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.

CAPITAL CITY OF NEW MEXICO
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
TERRITORIAL.
Delegate III Congress ......... ANTHONY JOSEPH
Governor ........,..,......L. BRADFORD PRINCE
| secretary . ....... .... b. NJ. THOMAS
Solicitor General. ,....... EDWARD l.. BARrLELI
auditor observation-disclosures. TRINIDAD ALARID
Treasurer ANTONIO ORTIZ Y SALA2AR
Adjutant General .......,,....-..E L. W. WYHKoOE
JUDICIARY.
Chief Justice Supreme Court ..... ..-. e. V. LONG
Associate Justice lst district W. Fl. WmITrNAS
| Associate Justice ID district ......... W. d. LEE
Associate Justice I'd district .........J. K. MCFIt
Presiding Justice Attn district ....,.. L, V. LONG
{. 5. Marshal. 90. ..... TRINIDAD ROMERO
q Jerk Supreme Court ..... SUMMERS BURKHART
LAND DEPARTMENT.
.. S. surveyor General, 80. EDWARD F. HOBART
O. 5. Land Register.... 49,. 90. A. L. MORRISON
Receiver Public Moneys. ......WN. NJ. BERGER
US. ARMY.
Commander at Fl Marcy, Col. HENRY DOUGLASS
| Adiutaut ............ LIEUT.. s. !. SEYBrGN
Di ,i, O. Capt. j. ". summerhaye e
secy Bursau Of immigration .... MAX Eros
U. s. Int Rev. Collector. ......,.. up. 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 a 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 and the center of commerce,
authority and influence. In 1904 came
the first venturesome American trader
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
sues dryness and purity Especially
adapted to Tie permanent cure of pull
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
7,774; TERRA Amarillo, 1855; Glorieta,
Jimarron, 6,4S9, Bernalillo, 5,7O4; Albu-
4,9lS; Socorro, 1865; Las 4
Jruces, 3,844; Silver City, 5,946; Fl.
Stanton, $500. The mean temperature
It the government station at Santa Fe,
or the years named was as follows 1874,
SO degrees; 1878, 1876 degrees; 1876,
ST.; 1877, 4S.3; 1873, 47.6. 1879, 500;
$50, 1866; which shows an extraordinary
Uniformity. For tubercular diseases the
cath rate in New Mexico is the lowest In
ne union, the ratio being as follows
lew England, 25; Minnesota, IA South
IN States, Is; and New Mexico, 3.
DISTANCES.
Santa Fe is distant from Kansas City
50 miles; from Denver, 1888 miles !;
ON Trsinidad, PIG miles; from Albu- q
lerque, So miles; from Deming, 316
tiles from FL Paso, $40 miles; from Los
ngeles, |, 1882 miles; from San Fran
SEQ, PSI miles.
ELEVATIONS.
The base of the monument in The
and plaza u.s. according to latest correct
measurements, 7,Ol9.5 feet above the
vel of the sea Bald mountain, toward
e northeast and at the extreme north
n end of the Santa Fe mountains,
1861 feet above sea level Lake Peak, to
e right (wh ire the Santa Fe creek has
source), is II, O45 feet high the divide
esuque road) I'LL; Aqua Fria, $3.50; ,
ia mouth of Santa Fe creek (north of
ma Blanca, 5,225; Sandia mountains A
ighest point, l0,60S; Old Placers,
Sol Los Cerrillos mountains (south),
,S4 feet in height. Thu
POINTS OF INTEREST.
There are some forty various points of
ore or less historic interest in and about T
e ancient city: wir
The Adobe Palace, north side of the TIN
va, has been occupied as an executive
lnsion since 1850, the first governor and ,d IL
otain general $50 far as the data at Stat Stat
nd reveals) being Juan de Otermin G.
The Plaza--Onate and De Vargas made no no. J
marches over this beautiful I'M IN
sis, the one in 1891, the other in 1893. II
Church of San Miguel in the NegII
h century destroyed during the Pueblo nag
'olution of 1850; rebuilt by order of est
he Marques de la Penuela, in the oo III
ir l7lO. wit
The oldest dwelling house in the cati
ited States is located near San Miguel or i''a
lrch. 1t was built before the Spanish <,
lquest. sup'
The ancient cathedral's walls are grad e, as rs
ly crumbling and instead grand mod. '''''
stone structure is building. The old W
hedral was erected in 1851. est
Did Fort Marcy was first recognized Nat,
used as strategic military point by Dali Dali
Pueblo Indians when they revoltcd Dali
inst Spanish rule in 1880 and drove out D pal
enemy after besiegng the city for s Haa,
e days. The American army under Wee
arney constructed old Fort Marcy in o.
+. lars
'ort Marcy of the present day Is gar sa
med by three companies OF the 10th Libe
S. infantry, under command of Cap - Az
Is Gregory Barret, J. F. Stretch and
ygan, and here at a. m. daily occurs
rd mounting, feature of military m
ever of interest to the tourist i
'ther points of ir terest to the tourist ,
&: The Historical Society's rooms the
arita," the military quarter; chapel and
letery of Our Lady of the Rosary; the :
rch museum at the new cathedral, the
bishops gardens; church of our Our g.
y of Guadalupe with its rare old works &c
art; the soldiers monument, monu- "
1T to the Pioneer Pathfinder, Kit So
son, erected by the G. A. r. of New -
sico; st. Vincent hospital, conducted W
Sisters of Charity, and the Orphans IS