Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-01-03
SANTA FE.
I Few Facts for the General Informa-
ton Of Tourists and Sight
Seers Visiting the
CAPITAL CITY OF NEW MEXICO
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.


OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
TERRITORIAL
i,.Irgate Ia Congress ........A ANTHONY JOSEPH
Goverunr L. BRADFORD PRINCE
secretary ... ... B. NJ. THOMAS
lcting solicitor General . r. E. TwITCHELI
,udltCy TRINIDAD ALARID
Treasurer ANTONIO ORTIZ SALAZAR
Adjutant General ........ EDWARD l.. BARTLETT
JUDICIARY.
Chief Justice supreme Court -. Z. V. LONG
Associate Justice LIST district W. II. WHITMAN
Associate Justice ID district. q. . W. d. LEE
Associate Justice - district. J. X: MCFIt
Presiding Justice 4th district .... V. LONG
q. :. District Attorney ,.....-.,.. THOMAS SMITH
t. : Marshal .... -.... .ROMULo MARTINEZ
Clerk supreme Court ...SUMMERs BURKHART
LAND DEPARTMENT.
T. :. Surveyor General. EDWARD +. HOBART
e. 5. Land Register ..;... j. H. WALLER
Receiver Public Moneys JAMES A. SPEADL! NC
q. s. ARMY.
Commander at Ft. Marcy, Col. HENRY DOUGLASS
Adiurant .......... LIEUT.. > I. SEfBt RH
Olnrtrrmaster o.. ............. LIEUT.. PLuMMER
Disbursing q. NJ - Capt. J. W. summerhayes.
Scc'y lilrcau OF immigration. 49,. MAX FRos'
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 Nlrande in 1898 he found Santa
re a hourlshing 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 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
the iorerunner of the great line of mer-
chants who have made traffic over the
Santa Fe worldwide in its celebrity.
TIE CLIMATE
q New Mexico is considered the finest OH
the continent. The high altitude in
sures dryness and purity Especially
adapted to tie permanent cure of pull
monarv complaints, as hundreds will be
Witness and by travelling from point to
point almost any desired temperature
NAV be enjoyed The altitude OF some of
the principal points in the territory is
as follows: Santa Fe, 7,047; CostilIa.
7,774; TERRA Amarillo, 400; Glorieta,
.5S7; Taos, $3.50; Las Vegas, 6,452;
Cimarron, Is ,4S9, Bernalillo, 5,7O4; Albu-
luerque, 4,9lS; Socorro, 1868; Las
Cruces, 3,S44; Silver City, 5,946; Fl.
stanton, $500. The mean temperature
4t the government station at Santa Fe,
,or the wears named was as follows; 1874,
1879 degrees; 1875, 1876 degrees; 1876,
ISL; 1877, 1873; 1873, 47.6. 1879, 500
1850, 46.6; 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
ern States, s. and New Mexico, 3.
DISTANCES.
Santa Fe is distant from Kansas City
$50 miles; from Denver, 33S miles
rom Trsinidad, PIG miles; from Albu-
luerque, So miles; from Deming, 3l6
niles; from FL paso, $40 miles; from Los
Angeles, l,O32 miles; from San Fran
,isco, PSI miles.
ELEVATIONS.
The base of the monument in uhe
grand plaza is, according to latest correct
81 measurements, 7,Ol9.5 feet above the
evel Of the sea; Bald mountain, toward
5he northeast and at the extreme north
ern end of the Santa Fe mountains,
II ,66l feet above sea level Lake Peak, to
;he right (where the Santa Fe creek has
It's source, is Il ,045 feet high the divide
,Tesuque road iii; Aqua Fria, $3.50
CieDeguilla (west), 6,025; La BaJada,
5,5l4; mouth Of Santa Fe creek (north OF
pena Blauca), 5,225; Sandia mountains
highest point, l0,608; Old Placers,
) sol; Los Cerrillos mountains (southD,
1884 feet in height.