Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-05-15
SAINT FE:.
A Few Facts for the General Informa
ton of Tourists and Sight
Seer$Visiting the
CAPITAL CITY OF NEW MEXICO.
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
TERRITORIAL.


Delegate in Congress .,..i ANTHONY 1osEr
Governor ............,,...,.L. BRADFORD Primo
Secretary .........,..... ...... b. NJ. IHoMA
Solicitor General. EDWARD L. BARrLEI
Auditor. ...........,..... TRINIDAD ALARI
Treasurer ..... ANTONIO ORTIZ SAIAZA
Adutant General. ...............W ). FLETCHE
Sec'y Bureau of immigration ,..-.. MAX FRos
JUDICIARY.
Associate Assoc Justice lst district W. H. WHlrEMAs
Associate Justice I'd district ......... W. D. LEI
Associate Justice Sd district. J. r. MCFII
Presiding Justice 4th district JAS O'BRIEr
y, $. district Attorney. ..,..., 49,. E. A. FIsKi
U. s. Marshal. ........ TRINIDAD ROMERO
Jerk Supreme Court Summers BURKHAR1
LAND DEPARTMENT.
U. S. Surveyor General. ... EDWARD F. HOBART
U. s. Land Register. A. l.. MORRISON
Receiver Public Moneys. .......WM. NJ BERGER
U. S. ARMY.
Commander at Fl. Marcy, =. Col. SIMON SNYDER
Adjutant ............. LIEUT.. 5. ! SEYBU RN
Quartcrmaster. ................. LIEUT.. PLUMMER
Discussing q NJ Capt. J. W. summerhayes.
U. g. 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 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 |
| ,,ito1 and tha rnptor nf
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
srres dryness and purity Especially
adapted to tne 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; Costila,
7,774; Terra Amarillo, 7,455; Glorieta,
,5S7; Taos, $3.50; Las Vegas, 6,452
Cimarron, 6,4S9, Bernalillo, 5,704; Albu-
querque, 4,91S; socorro, 1865; 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, 1876 degrees 1875,
4S.1; 1877, 4S.3; 1878, 47.6. 1879, sos;
1880, 1876; which shows an extraordinary -
For tubercular diseases the
leath rate in New Mexico is the lowest in
he union, the ratio being as follows:
New England, 25; Minnesota, IA South
,rn States, 6 and New Mexico, 3.
DISTANCES.
Santa Fe is distant from Kansas City
69 miles; from Denver, 1888 miles
rom Trsinidad, PIG miles; from Albu- -
uerque, So miles; from Deming, 316
niles from Ell Paso, $40 miles from Los
angeles, 1882 miles; from San Fran -
isco, ,2S1 miles.
ELEVATIONS.
The base of the monument in The
rand plaza is, according to latest correct
d measurements, 7,0l9.5 feet above the
,vel of the sea; Bald mountain, toward
ne northeast and at the extreme north
IN end of the Santa Fe mountains,
2 ,661 feet above sea level Lake Peak, to
le right (wh ,re the Santa Fe creek has
8 source), is Il, 045 feet high the divide -
Tesuque road) I'LL; Aqua Fria, $3.50; {
ieneguilla west, 6,025; La Bajada,
5l4 mouth of Santa Fe creek north of -
ena Blanca), 5,225 Sandia mountains
highest point, l0,60S; Old Placers,
sol Los Cerrillos mountains (south), -
5S4 feet in height.
POINTS OF INTEREST.
There are some forty various points of
ore or less historic interest in and about -
e ancient city:
The Adobe Palace, north side of the
azs, has been occupied as an executive
ansion since 1880, the first governor anc
plain general $50 far as the data at Jol
nd rev.als) being Juan de Otermin
The Plaza-Onate and De Vargas made
marches over this beautiful Gr'
sis, the one in 1891, the other in 1893.
Church of San Miguel in the
tn century destroyed during the Pueblo
volution of 1880; rebuilt by order Of g.
he Marques de la Penuela, in the Du
ar ITO.
The oldest dwelling house in the -
lited States is located near San Miguel
urch. 1t was built before the Spanish
inquest.
The ancient cathedral's walls are grad
lily crumbling and instead a grand mod
! stone structure is building. The old
;hedral was erected in 1861.
Did Fort Marcy was first recognized
d used as a strategic military point by
, Pueblo Indians when they revolted
ainst Spanish rule in 1850 and drove out
, enemy after besieging the city for -
lie days. The American army under
arney constructed old Fort Marcy in
rs.
Fort Marcy of the present day Is gar
oned by three companies of the 10th
S. infantry, under command of Cap "
rs Gregory Barret, j. f. Stretch and
ggan, and here at 8 a. m. daily occurs
nd mounting, feature of military
ever of interest to the tourist.
)ther points of interest to the tourist
/: The Historical Society's rooms; the
arita," the military quarter; chapel and
letery of Our Lady of the Rosary; the
Irch museum at the new cathedral, the
hbishop's gardens; church of our Our
ly of Guadalupe with its rare old works
art the soldiers monument, monu-
Mt to the Pioneer Pathfinder, Kit
son, erected by the G. A. X. of New q
xico; St. Vincent hospital, conducted "a
Sisters of Charity, and the Orphans ~
ustrial school; the Indian training "a
DOL; Loreto Academy and the chapel e.
Dur Lady of Light.
he sight-seer here may also take -
icle and enjoy days outing with II
b pleasure and profit. The various III
is OF interest to be visited are Tesuque If
bio, aking in the divide en- route; H.
num.nt rock, up in picturesque Santa
canon; the Aztec mineral springs; Ner,
nbe pueblo; Aqua Fria village the Ct
noise mines: place of the assassina-