Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-09-15

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CAPITAL CITY OF NEW MEXICO
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
TERRITORIAL
Delegate III Congress .-......AErHoAY JOSEF
Governor ............-......L l.. BRADFORD PRINCE
secretary ..............- ...... b. NJ, THOMAS
solicitor General. howard L. BARTLETT
| Auditor. .....................T TRINIDAD ALARIL
| Treasurer .... .-..... Antonio ORTIZ SALAlAH
sec'y Bureau Of immigration .,..'. MAX FRosI
JUDICIARY.
Chief Justice supreme Court. .JAs. 0 BRGEN
Associate Justice LIST district W, H. WHGTEMAN
Associate Justice I'd district. .........W W. D. LEI
Associate Justice 80 district ....... ]. +. MCFIE
| Presiding Justice 4th district ......JAs O'BglEN
| Associate Jus ic 9th district. +, 7. SEEDS
| Y. s. Marshal. ........, TRINIDAD ROMERO
Jerk Supreme Court ....sUMMERs BURKHART
LAND DEPARTMENT
o. $. Surveyor General, .... EDWARD +. HOBART
| o. ). Land Register. ........ "A. l.. MORRISON
Receiver Public Moneys,........WM NJ. BERGER
u. 5. ARMY.
Commander at Fl Marcy, Coz. SIMON SNYDER
Adjutaut ........... LIEUT.. s. i SETBURE
QuartermRster. q. ....... ......, LIEUT.. PLUMMER
Disbursing O. NJ Capt. J. W. summerhayes
q. g. Int. Rev. Collector. .......-...L. A. HrGHEs
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
cd 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 its celebrity.
THE CLIMATE
OF New Mexico is considered the finest on
the continent. The high altitude in
sres 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
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, s ,4S9, Bernalillo, 5,704; Albu-
auerque, ABS; Socorro, 1865; Las
Cruces, 3,844; Silver City, 5,946; Fl.
$500. The mean temperature
at the government station at Santa Fe,
for the years named was as follows; 1874, |
1870 degrees; 1875, 4S.6 degrees; 1875,
49,; 1877, 48.3; 1878, 47.6. 1879, 500;
1880, 1855; which shows an extraordinary
For tubercular diseases the
Heath rate in New Mexico is the lowest in
he union, the ratio being as follows:
New England, %; Minnesota, IA; South
,rn States, 6; and New Mexico, 8.
DISTANCES.
Santa Fe is distant from Kansas City
,e9 miles; from Denver, 1888 miles;
rom Trsinidad, 2l6 miles; from Aibu-
,uerque, IS miles; from Deming, 3l6
niles; from FL Paso, $40 miles; from Los
Angeles, 1922 miles; from san Fran
,isco, ,28l miles.
ELEVATIONS.
The base OF the monument in the
rand plaza is, according to latest correct
I'd measurements, 1898 feet above the
evel of the sea Bald mountain, toward
he northeast and at the extreme north
I'm end of the Santa Fe mountains,
1861 feet above sea level; Lake Peak, to
he right (wh ,re the Santa Fe creek has
is source), is l2,O45 feet high the divide
Tesuque road I'LL; Aqua Fria, 6,4o0;
Jieneguilla (west), 6,O25; La Ba]ada,
,514 mouth OF Santa Fe creek (north OF
'ena Blanca), 1925; Sandia mountains
highest point, 10,60S; Old Placers,
,801; Los Cerrillos mountains (south),
,5S4 feet in height.
POINTS OF INTEREST.
There are some forty various points OF
more or less historic interest in and about
he ancient city:
The adobe palace stands on the spot
where the old Spanish palace had been
rected shortly after 1905. That ancient
tructure was destroyed in 1880 and the
resent one was constructed between
697 and l7l6. ,
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
'e. 1t still remains the oldest church IN
Ise in New Mexico.
The walls OF the old cathedral date in
,art from 1922; but the edifice proper Is
rom the past century.