Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-04-03

A Few Facts for the General Iuforma
ton Of Tourists aud Sight.
Seers Visiting the
CAPITAL CITY OF NEW MEXICO

CAPITAL CITY OF NEW "MhAlU'
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
TERRITORIAL
Delegate tn Congress- ... ANTHONY JOSEF
Governor .. ......,.L bRaDF9RD iRlNc
! secretary .,,-. b. NJ lhoha
Solicitor General EDWARD l.. BARTLEL
Auditor ...--- TRINIDAD ALARII
Treasurer ANTONIO ORTIZ SALAzA'
Adiutant General w L. W. WYNKO0
Secy Bureau of immigration o.. MAX EROS
JUDICIARY.
Chief Justice SUPREME Court 1rt WIS "; LON,
Associate Justice LIST district ". h. W HlIEM An
| Associate Justice I'd district. v. D. LEI
Associate Justice 30 district. ..,.. j. K. McFlt
! Presiding Justice ith district E V. LONG
| U. ). District Attorney. f. A. flsNF
| o. S. Marshal TRINIDAD ROMERO
| CLERK Supreme Court SUMMERS BUBKHA ri
| LAND DEPARTMENT.
| q. $. Surveyor General. -. EDWARD F. HOBART
| y. s. Land Register......... A. l.. MORRISON
Receiver Public Moneys. ....,WM. NJ BERGER
T. ARMY
| Commander at TT. Marcy, Col. HENRY DOUGLASS
Adjutant ........., LIEUT.. 5. \ SEfBt kN
Discussing Q. NJ Capt. J. W. Sunmerhayes.
q. y. 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 tlourlshing 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
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 nave made traffic over the
Santa Fe worldwide in it's celebrity.
THE CLIMATE
OF New Mexico is considered the finest on
the continent. The high altitude in
sures 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
NAV 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,
I ,5S7; Taos, $3.50; Las Vegas, 6,452
Cimarron, 6,4S9, Bernalillo, 5,7O4; Albu-
ABS; Socorro, 4,655; Las
Cruces, 3,S44; Silver City, 5,946; F.
$500 The mean temperature
at the government station at Santa Fe,
for the years named was as follows; 1874,
49, degrees; 1875, 1876 degrees; 1876,
4S.1; 1877, 4S.3; 1878, 47.6. 1879, 500;
1880, 46.6; which shows an extraordinary
For tubercular diseases the
heath rate in New Mexico is the lowest in
The union, the ratio being as follows
New England, 25; Minnesota, IA; South
,rn States, &; and New Mexico, 3.
DISTANCES.
Santa Fe is distant from Kansas City
$50 miles; from Denver, 1888 miles;
rom Trsinidad, 2l6 miles; from Albu-
,ueroue, SO miles; from Deming, 3l6
niles from FL Paso, $40 miles; from Los
angeles, |, 032 miles; from San Fran
'isco. ,2S1 miles.
ELEVATIONS.
The base of the monument in The
rand plaza is, according to latest correct
I'd measurements, 7,Ol9.5 feet above the
eve 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 ere the Santa Fe creek has
is source, is l2,045 feet high the divide
Tesuque road) III; Aqua Fria, 6,4SO;
Jieneguilla west, COPS; La Bajada,
,514 mouth of Santa Fe creek north of
'ena Blanca), 5,225; Sandia mountains
highest point, l0,60S; Old Placers,
,801 Los Cerrillos mountains (south),
1874 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, north side of the
'lazs. has been occupied as an executive
mansion since 1880, the first governor anC
aptain general so far as the data at
and rev .als) being Juan de Otermln
The Plaza-Onate and De Vargas made
marches over this beautiful
asis, the one in 1891 the other in 1858.
Church of San Miguel in the
9th century destroyed during the Pueblo
evolution of 1885, rebuilt by order OF
The Marques de la Penuela, in the
ear l7l0.
The oldest dwelling house in the
United States is located near San Miguel
hurch. 1t was built before the Spanish
onquest.
The ancient cathedral's walls are grad
ally crumbling and instead grand mod
IN stone structure is building. The old
was erected in l76l.
Old Fort Marcy was first recognized
nd used as a strategic military point by
gainst Spanish rule in 1880 and drove out
he enemy after besieging the city for
inc days. The American army under
carney constructed old Fort Marcy in
SAG.
Fort Marcy of the present day ID gar
soned By three companies of the 10th
J. S. infantry, under command of Cap
aims Gregory Barrel, J. F. Stretch and
)uggan, and here at 8 a. m. daily occurs
uard mounting, feature of military
ever of interest to the tourist
Other points of ir terest to the tourist
re-: The Historical Society's rooms; the
Garita, the military quarter; chapel aud
emetely of Our Lady of the Rosary; the
hurch museum at the new cathedral, the
rchbishop's gardens; church of our Our
adv of Guadalupe with its rare old works
art; the soldiers monument, monu-
lent to the Pioneer Pathfinder, Kit
larson, erected by the G. A. r. of New
lexico st. Vincent hospital, conducted
" Sisters of Charity, and the Orphans
Industrial school; the Indian training
Loreto Academy and the chapel
+ Our Lady Of Light.
The sight-seer here may also take
ehicle and enjoy days outing with
10Th pleasure and profit. The various