Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-02-14
SANTA Fl:
A Few Facts for the General lnforma
ton of Tourists and Sight
Seers Visiting the
CAPITAL CITY OF NEW MEXICO
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY


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OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
TERkITORIAL-
Deisgats III Congress ...,.. ANrHnHI 5osEl
Governor .....-.,..-- Il, BRADFORD IElNN
secretary =. NJ. THoN
Solicitor General &C.. EDWARD L. BAhTLt4
Auditor. .-.,,,.,....... p. lklNlDAD Alan
Treasurer ANTONIO ORTIZ ,SALAz,
Adjutant General, ...,.....,,. T. " lNho.
JUDICIARY.
Chief Justice supreme Court ~ E.V. Lon
Associate Justice list district. W. Fl. Written 4,
| Associate Justice I'd district ......... W ~ u
Associate Justice Sd district .........J R. NICK
Presiding Justice 4th district ..,. e V. Los
U. ;. District Attorney. ,....--- ..,.- w. A. FISH
CLERK supreme Court .. SUMMERS BuRKHAn
LAND DEPARTMENT.
Z. S. Surveyor General, ..,. EDWARD F. HoBAE
U. s. Land Register. 49,. !. l.. MoRHSo!
Receiver Public Moneys. WIN III. BERGEi
U. S. ARMY.
Commander at TT. Marcy, Col. Henry DOUGLAS
Sisb ,i q. NJ .... Capi. i. ". Summcrhayes
Sec'y bureau OF immigration &c. MAN FEos
o. s. Tut Rev. Collector ......... J.P. MCGRORTl
HISTORICAL.
Santa Fe, the city of the Holy Faith 0
st. Francis, is the capital of New Mexico
trade center, sanitary. archepsCopa
see, and also the military headquarters
1t is the oldest seat of civil and religious
government OH American soil. When
| Cabeza de Baca penetrated the valley OF
! the Rio Grande in 1888 he found Santa
Fe a tiourlshing Pueblo village. The his
| tory of its first European settlement was
! Nf l,a orlN rIEJo Of b1
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 1894 came
the first venturesome American trader
the forerunner OF the great line OF mer-
chants who have 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
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
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, 7,455; Gloreta,
1887; Taos, $780, Las Vegas, B,452;
Cimarron, + ,4S9, Bernalillo, 5,704; Albu-
ouerque, 4,01S; Socorro, 1865; 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.9 degrees; 1875, 4S.6 degrees; 1876,
4S.1; 1877, 4S.3; 1878, 47.6. 1879, 500;
1880, 46.G; 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, rs; Minnesota, IA; South
ern States, 8; and New Mexico, 3.
DISTANCES.
santa Fe is distant from Kansas City
869 miles; from Denver, 1913 miles;
from Trsinidad, PIC miles; from Albu-
querque, So miles; from Deming, 3l6
miles from Fl Paso, $40 miles; from Los
Angeles, 1882 miles; from San Fran
cisco, PSI miles.
ELEVATIONS.
The base of the monument In The
grand plaza is, according to latest correct
ed measurements, 7,0l9.5 feet above the
level OF the sea Bald mountain, toward
the northeast and at the extreme north
ern end of the Santa Fe mountains,
u ,66l feet above sea level; Lake Peak, to
the right (wt IRE the Santa Fe creek has
its source), is l2,O45 feet high the divide
(Tesuque road) 7,l71; Aqua Fria, $3.50
(west), 6,025; La Balada,
5 ,5l4; mouth OF Santa Fe creek (north OF
Pena Blanca, 5,225 Sandia mountains
highest point, l0,0OS; Old Placers,
sol; Los Cerrillos mountains (south) |
5 1874 feet in height.
POINTS OF INTEREST.
There are some forty various points of
more or less historic interest in and about
the ancient city:
The Adobe Palace, north side of the
plaza, has been occupied as an executive
since 1880, the first governor and
captain general $50 far as the data at
hand reveals) being Juan de Otermin
The Plaza-Onate and De Vargas made
triumphant marches over this beautiful
oasis, the one in 1891, the other in 1893.
Church of San Miguel.-Erected in the
10Th century destroyed during the Pueblo
revolution of $780, rebuilt by order of
''The Marques de la Penuela, " in the
year ITO.
The oldest dwelling house in the
United States is located near San Miguel
church. 1t was built before the Spanish
The ancient cathedral's walls are grad
ually crumbling and instead a grand mod
ern stone structure is building. The old
cathedral was erected in l76l.
Old Fort Marcy was first recognized
and used rs strategic military point by
the Pueblo Indians when they revotcd
against Spanish rule in 1880 and drove out
the enemy after besieging the city for
nine days. The American army under
X carney constructed old Fort Marcy in
1916.
Fort Marcy of the present day Is gar
risoned By three companies Of the 10th
U. S. infantry, under command of Cap
tains Gregory Barret, J. f. Stretch and
Duggan, and here at 8 a. m. daily occurs
guard mounting, feature OF military
ever of interest to the tourist.
Other points of irterest to the tourist
are: The Historical Societys rooms the
'Garita," the military quarter chapel and
cemetery of Our Lady of the Rosary; the
church museum at the new cathedral, the
gardens; church OF our Our
Lady of Guadalupe with its rare old works
of art the soldiers monument, monu-
ment to the Pioneer Pathfinder, Kit
Carson, erected by the G. A: R. Of New
Mexico; St. Vincent hospital, conducted
by Sisters of Charity, and the Orphans
industrial school; the Indian training
school; Loreto Academy and the chapel
OF Our Lady Of Light.