Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-11-10
CAPITAL CITY OF NEW MEXICO.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY

- leEk supreme court. SUMMERS BURkHAR1
LAND DEPARTMENT.
9. s. Surveyor General. .... EDWARD F. HOBART
Rceoi EsI4 p Keg,s Mc;s L. MORRISON
US. ARMY.
Commander at Fl. Marcy; Col SIMON SNYDER
aur rteIr, as+or LIEUT. r >; bSEYBuRN
Discussing q M..Capt. j. ". su sum es
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.
An Indian pueblo had existed on the
site previous to the 18th century. Its
name was O-ga-p'ho-ge, but it had been
, abandoned long before Coronado's time.
The Spanish town of Santa Fe was found
ed in 1905, it is therefore the second old
est European settlement still extant in
the United States. 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 it's celebrity.
THE CLIMATE
oi new Mexico is &C CONSIDERED the hnest on
Ine contlhent. Inc nlgn atltude IN
snres dryness and purity especially
auapteu 10 the permanent cure OF pull
nonafy complains, as hundreds Will be
witness,) and by travelling from point to
point almost any desired temperature
may De enjoyed. Inc altitude OF some OF
the principal polnts In tne territory is
as iolipWs. SANTA re, I,V4l; Oostllla,
In4; Terra Amarlla, 7,455; Glorleta,
1881; laos, 6,93O; Las vegas, 6,452;
Cmafron, ., 4o9, befnallllo, 5,7O4; A!bu-
querque, 4,slo Socorro, 4,b55; Las
cruces, 1884; SILVER CITY,, 6,946; TT.
stanton, o,ooo. Inc mean temperature
at tne government station at Santa Fe,
tor the years named was as follows; 1874,
4S.e degrees; 1910, 4o.6 degrees; 1875,
A.; lon, $50; 1878, 4I.6. 1879, 500;
ISoo, 46:6; Whlch shows an extraordinary
uniformly: FOR tupercular diseases the
death rate IN new Mexico Is the lowest in
New England o. Minnesota "a. coutb.
ern States, =; and New Mexico, 3.
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anita Fe is distant from Kansas City
s Lilies; from Denver, 1893 miles
Irsinidad, 216 miles; from Albu-
&C oue, 85 miles; from Deming, 316
L s, from Ell Paso, $40 miles from Los
4 tes, 1882 miles; from San Fran
1881 miles.
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ANA' n Ai''''
base of the monument in The
nd plaza is, according to latest correct -
q measurements, 7,0195 feet above the
evel of the sea; Bald mountain, toward
the northeast and at the extreme north
ern end of the Santa Fe mountains,
1881 feet above sea level Lake Peak, to -
the right (wh ere the Santa Fe creek has
its source), is l2,O45 feet high ; the divide
(Tesuque road) I'LL; Aqua Fria, $3.50; =
Cieneguilla (west), 6,025; La Bajada,
1914; mouth of Santa Fe creek (north of
Pena Blanca), 1925; Sandia mountains
highest point, 10,608; Old Placers, NJ
3 1901; Los Cerrillos mountains (south),
1884 feet in height.
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There are some forty various points Of
more or less historic interest in and about
ne duCl0uU Guy ii
The adobe palace stands on the spot
where the old Spanish palace had been -
erected shortly after 1905. That ancient
structure was destroyed in 1880 and the
present one was constructed between
697 and 1716.
The chapel OF San Miguel was built be- -
ween 1886 and 1850. In the latter years
he indians destroyed it. Fully restored
n I'LL, it had previously, and after 1893,
,een the only Spanish chapel in Santa -
Te. 1t still remains the oldest church in
lse in New Mexico.
The walls Of the old cathedral date in
,art from 1922; but the edifce proper is
rom the past century. =
Old Fort Marcy was first recognized
nd used as strategic military point by
he Pueblo Indians when they revolted
gainst Spanish rule in 1880 and drove out
he enemy after besieging the city for
line days. The American army under
iearney constructed old Fort Marcy in
S46.
Fort Marcy of the present day ls gar
isoned by two companies of the 10th
J. s. infantry, under command OF Col.
nyder, and here at . a. m. daily occurs
uara mounting, q ; ieaS.e " tho tansa
laneuveis eset y; uUst ~ :" t tho to,l;".
othGr p9lnss y; n Se;st W VIZ LUIS. th
r.: ny tlisI9iieal oooaety t oS"oi wy
oallIa, Iie niiI'ny 4a" .I -, oa,apui aho
ometery OF OuI Lazy VI Iue hosaIy tue