Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-03-26
SANTA FE.
A Few Facts for the General lnforms
ton OF Tourists and Sight
Seers Visiting the
CAPITAL CITY OF NEW MEXICO,

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OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
TERRITORIAL
Delegate III Congress ........ ANTaoHf Jo.ki
Governor '..,.'L. bhADfohD III
Secretary 49,. b. u: lhuh
Solicitor General. EDWARD Ia bAETLE
| Auditor .... TRINIDAD ALAR
Treasurer ANTONIO ORTIZ 5ALAzA
| Adjutaat Generai..... Il. '" WfEko'
Sec'y Bureau Of immigration MAX fR"'
JUDICIARY.
Chief Justice Supreme Court ...- E.V, LON
Associate Justice ist district ". H. WHirEMA
Associate Justice I'd district, ". y. LIZ
Associate Justice 80 district ..,..,.J J. K: McFI
| Presiding Justice 4th district v Lon
U. ). District Attorney. +. a: FISK
| L. 5. Marshal. -. .... TRINIDAD RoAER
CLERK supreme Court SUMMERS BuRKHAR
LAND DEPARTMENT.
Q. 8. surveyor General 80. EDWARD +. HoBAk
U. s. Land Register O.. A. l.. MORRISON
Receiver Public Moneys .......WM. 81. BEKGEl
U. s. ARMY.
Commander at TT. Marcy, COL. HENRY DOUGLAS
| Adjutaut .......... LIEUT.. :. i. SEYBU RI
Quartermaster ......... ....... LIEUT.. PLUMMEf
Disbursing q. NJ 49,. Capt. J. W. summerhsyes
q. y. Int. Rev Collector ...........J.P MoGEoRr,
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 hourshing 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 mem
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 nave 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
sl1res 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,
7 ,5S7; Taos, $3.50; Las Vegas, 6,452
Cimarron, 6,489, Bernalillo, 5,704; Albu-
ouerque, Ads; Socorro, 1855; 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,
1879 degrees; 1875, 4S.6 degrees; 1875,
4S.l; 1877, 4S.3; 1878, AIS. 1879, 500;
1880, 46.6; which shows an extraordinary
Uniformity. For tubercular diseases the
Heath rate in New Mexico is the lowest in
;he union, the ratio being as follows
New England, 25; Minnesota, IA; South
,rn States, &; and New Mexico, 8.
DISTANCES.
santa Fe is distant from Kansas City
'69 miles; from Denver, 1888 miles;
rom Trsinidad, PIC miles; from Albu-
IS miles; from Deming, 318
niles; from FL Paso, $40 miles; from Los
Angeles, 1882 miles from San Fran
sco, l,281 miles.
ELEVATIONS.
The base of the monument In vhe
rand plaza is, according to latest correct
ID measurements, 7,0l9.5 feet above the
evel of the sea; Bald mountain, toward
he northeast and at the extreme north
IN end of the Santa Fe mountains,
2 ,66l feet above sea level Lake Peak to
he right (wh ere the Santa Fe creek has
Is source), is l2,045 feet high the divide
Tesuque road) iii; Aqua Fria, 6,480;
,ieDeguilla west, 6,025; La Bajada,
,5l4 mouth of Santa Fe creek north OF
'ena Blanca, 5,225 Sandia mountains
highest point, 1O,608; Old Placers,
sol Los Cerrillos mountains South,
,584 feet in height
POINTS OF INTEREST.
There are some forty various points of
lore or less historic interest in and about
re ancient city:
The Adobe Palace, north side Of the
lazs. has been occupied as an executive
lansion since 1880, the first governor ano
aptain general $50 far as the data at
and rev ,als) being Juan de Otermin
The Plaza--Onate and De Vargas made
marches over this beautiful
asis, the one in 1891, the other in 1893.
Church Of San Miguel.-Erected in the
jth century destroyed during the Pueblo
evolution OF 1880; rebuilt by order OF
The Marques de la Penuela, in the
ear l7l0.
The oldest dwelling house in the
nited States is located near San Miguel
lurch. 1t was built before the Spanish
inquest.
The ancient cathedrals walls are grad
ally crumbling and instead grand mod /
n stone structure is building. The old
lthedral was erected in l761.
Old Fort Marcy was first recognized
Id used as strategic military point by
10 Pueblo Indians when they revolted
,ainst Spanish rule in 1880 and drove out t
le enemy after besieging the city for
me days. The American army under
carney constructed old Fort Marcy in
,46.
Fort Marcy of the present day is gar.
soned by three companies OF the 10th
. S. infantry, under command OF Cap
ms Gregory Barrett, j. F. Stretch and
uggan, and here at a. m. daily occurs
lard mounting, a feature of military
answering ever of interest to the tourist.
Other points of interest to the tourist
@: The Historical Society's rooms; the
tiarita, =" the military quarter chapel and
of Our Lady Of the Rosary; the
lurch museum at the new cathedral, the
gardens; church of our Our
ady of Guadalupe with its rare old works
art; the soldiers monument, monu-
ent to the Pioneer Pathfinder, Kit
arson, erected by the q. A. r. of New
o,,;,o. O. V;pnopf hospita1 cond,1cfad ,
' Sisters of Charity, and the Orphans
dustrial school; the Indian training
hool; Loreto Academy and the chapel d
Our Lady Of Light.
The sight-seer here may also take q
,hicle and enjoy days outing with
9TH pleasure and profit. The various
lots OF interest to be visited are Tesuque
leblo, aking in the divide en- route;
onum. mt rock, up in picturesque Santa
Q canon; the Aztec mineral springs;
E~;o will khn