Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-01-02

4 Few Facts for the General Informa-
ton of Tourists and Sight.
Seers Visiting the
CAPITAL CITY OF NEW MEXICO
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
TERRITORIAL.

TERRITORIAL.
De egat,, III Congress ........ ANTHONY JOSEPH
Governor .......L. BRADFoED + hlNoh
,errefarv . B. NJ. THOMAS
| lnfinr Solicitor General 1890 R. E. TWITCHELL
Auditor ..lRlNiDAD Alarm
| Tr.u,rrpr ANTONIO ORTIZ SALAzAR
Adutant General, ......-.. EDWARD L. BARTLETT
JUDICIARY.
Chief Justice supreme Court E. " LONG
Associate Justice list district W. H. WHlTEMAN
Associate Justice % district. ...., W. D. LEE
Associate Justice 30 district ...,J. :, K; meets
Presiding Justice ith district 800. E. Y. LONG
n :. district Attorney ...... THOMAS SMITH
= :, Marshal ~ RoMULo MARTINEZ
CLERK Supreme Court go. SUMMERS BURKHART
LAND DEPARTMENT.
9. ). Land Register ..... }. ID. WALLER
Receiver Public Moneys JAMES A. SPRADLING
U. ). ARMY.
Commander at TT. Marcy, Col. HENRY DOUGLASS
adjutant ......... LIEUT. 5. T. SEiBy RN
Qnarternaster. ...-.. 49,. LIEUT. PhuMMER
Discussing q. NJ Capt, J. w. summerh hayes
See bureau Of immigration ... MAX Eros
Z. S. Int. Rev. Collector ....,..... .J.P McGRoRTY
HISTORICAL.
Sant. Fe, the city of the Holy Faith of
st. Francis, is the capital OF New Mexico.
trade center, sanitary. archeplscopal
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 iiourlshing Pueblo village. The his
tory Of It's 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
tjOn of il shows it then to have been the
rapltaI 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.
THE CLIMATE
= New Mexico is considered the finest on
tlle continent. The high altitude in
3ures dryness and purity Especially
adapted to tAe permanent cure of pull
Inonarv 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,
1887 Taos, $3.50; Las Vegas, 6,452;
Cimarron, 4, 4S9, Bernalillo, 5,704; Albu-
o,lerque, 4,9lS; Socorro, 1868; 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; 1876,
1871; 1877, 4S.3; 1878, 47.6. 1879, sos;
1880, 4b.6; which shows an extraordinary
uniformity. For tubercular diseases the
death rate in New Mexico is the lowest in
the union, the ratio being as follows.
New England, 25; Minnesota, IA; South
ern States, 6; and New Mexico, 3.
DISTANCES.
Santa Fe is distant from Kansas City
1863 miles; from Denver, 33o miles;
from Trsinidad, 2l6 miles; from Albu-
o1eroue, So miles; from Deming, BIG
miles; from FL Paso, $40 miles from Loa
Angeles, | 1872 miles: from San Fran
cisco, PSI miles
ELEVATIONS.
The base of the monument i'll uhe
grand plaza is, according to latest correct
ed measurements, 7,Ol9.5 feet above the
level of the sea Bald mountain, toward
the northeast and at the extreme north
ern end of the Santa Fe mountains,
T.. 661 feet above.sea level; Lake Peak, to
the right (where the Santa Fe creek has
its source, is 49, 45 feet high the divide
CTesuque road III; Aqua Fra, 6,4SO
Ciepegllilla (west), 6,025; La Balada,
5,5l4: mouth of Santa Fe creek north OF
Pena Blanca), 1925; Sandla mountains
(highest point, l0,6OS; Old Placers'
6,SO1; Los Cerrillos mountains (south),
1854 feet in height.
POINTS OF INTEREST.