Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-12-29

i. s. surveyor General EDWARD T. HoBAs
n. s. Land Register. A. L. MORRISON
US. ARMY.
commander at Fl. Marcy. :. Col SIMON sNYDEI
Adjutant ......... LIEUT. s. y .sEYBrRi
Quartermaster.. ......... LIEUT.. PLuAhKi
HISTORICAL.
Santa Fe, the city of the Holy Faith o
st. Francis, is the capital OF New Mexico
trade center, sanitary. archepiscopa
see, and also the military Headquarters
An Indian pueblo bad existed Oh thu
site previous to the 10th century. LII
name WAS O-ga-p'ho-ge, but it had beer
abandoned long before Coronado's time
The Spanish town of Santa Fe was found
I'd in ibO5, it is therefore the second old
est European settlement still extant In
the United States. In 1894 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
of New Mexico is considered the finest on
the continent. The high altitude in
sures 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 ia
as follows. Santa Fe, 7,047; Costilla,
7,774; TERRA Amarillo, 1856; Glorieta,
1857; Taos, $3.50; Las Vegas, 6,452
Cimarron, 6,4S9, Bernalillo, 5,7O4; Albu.
querque, 4,9lS; Socorro, 1855; 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,
4S.y degrees; 1875, 48.6 degrees; !, 1875,
4o.l, 1877, 4S.3; 1878. AIS. 1879, sos;
1880, 48.6; which shows in extraordinary
uniformity. For tubercular diseases the
death rate in New Mexico is the lowest In
the union, the ratio being as follows
New England, rs; Minnesota, IA; South
ern States, +; and New Mexico, 3.
DISTANCES.
alta Fe ia distant from Kansas City
Lilies; from Denver, 1888 miles
Irsinidad, 2l6 miles; from Albu-
o c 'ue, so miles; from Deming, Biz
), Is, from Ell Paso, $40 miles; from Lon
A tyes, l,O32 miles; from San Fran.
1881 miles.
ELEVATIONS.
nNA "A = '~
base OF the monument LII 1ne
nd plaza is, according to latest coirect-
measurements, 1,Ol9.5 1eet ABOVE tae
vel OF the sea; Bald mountain, toward
che northeast and at the extreme north
hrn end ol the Santa re moshtans'
Il, bbl feet above sea level Lake Peak, u
the right (wh ,re the santa re creek mas
Its source, ls l2,O4o 1eet nlgh the ustue
(Tesuque road 1,l7l, Aqua FRA, o,4oO
Cienegullla west, o,025; La balada,
5,5l4 mouth ol Santa Fe creek (north OF
Pena Blanca, o,225; Sandla mountains
(highest point, lO,oO8, Oio flacerS
6,oOl; Los Cerrillos mountains (south)i
1854 feet in height,
,ours op rsrnpssr.
fo'Ni' VI " ~
There are some forty various polnts o.
more or less historic interest In and abou'
the ancient city:
The adobe palace stands on the spo
where the old Spanish palace had beer
erected shortly after 1915. That anclen
structure Was destroyed in 1880 and thu
present one WAS constructed between
ioY7 and l7lb.
The chapel Of san Miguel was built De
tween 1880 and lboO. In the latter year
the Indians destroyed 1t. Fully restore,
Ill III, II had previously, and after 1893
been the ony spanish chapel N Santa
#. Ii still remains the oldest church IL
USE III New, Mexico. .H
lie walls vi the Old cathedral date II
part from 1872 but the edltlce proper Il
from tile past century.
Ola Fort Marcy WAS hrst recoshize'
AMI used as u Strategic military point b!
the Pueblo Indians when they revolte'
against opanlsil rule In loov and drove ou
the enemy after pesleglng the city ~
nine days. The American army unde
Il aurpay communicated old Fort Marcy