Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-02-12
SANTA FE.
A Few Facts for the General Informa-
ton Of Tourists and Sight
Seers Visiting the
CAPITAL CITY OF NEW MEXICO
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY

: CAPITAL CITY OF NEW MEXICO
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY.
TERRITORIAL.
Delegate iii Congress ANTHONY JOs Ep
Governor. ...................L BRADFORD PRiHC
secretary. ....,....,.,.. .-.-., d. NJ, THO A
Solicitor General. ...,..,, EDWARD L. BAnThEl
Auditor. .........,.,..... TRINIDAD ALh III
Treasurer o.. go. ANTONIO ORTIZ SALAzt
Adjutant General. L. W, WYNHoo
JUDICIARY.
Chief Justice Supreme Court go. E. " Lon
Associate Justice list district W. H. WHITES Al
Associate Justice I'd district. ....... W. j. j.t.
Associate Justice Sd district ......J. X. MCFI
Presiding Justice ith district ........ f V. LnN'
U. 5. District Attorney. ..-... ...... E. A. FISK
Z. s. Marshal. ........ TRINIDAD koMFRl
Clerk Supreme Court SUMMERS BURkUhk
LAND DEPARTMENT.
q. s. Surveyor General. -. EDWARD F. HoBAR
y. s. Land Register A. l.. NORRIS
Receiver Public Moneys. WIN NJ. EEEGEi
U. S. ARMY.
Commander at Fl Marcy, Col. Henry DOUGLASS
Adjutaut ..........,.. LIEUT.. 5. SEYBr RI
Quartermaster. .................l. LIEUT.. PIUMMER
Sec'y Bureau OF immigration. MAX Eros
U. s. Int, Rev. Collector ....... up. McGRoRrY
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 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 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 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 tie 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, 1855; Glorieta
1887; Taos, $3.50; Las Vegas, 6,452
Cimarron, 6,4S9, Bernalillo, 5,704; Albu-
querque, 4,91S; Socorro, 1858; Las
Cruces, 3,844; 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,
4S.1; 1877, 4S.3; 1878, 47.6. 1879, sos;
1880, 46.6; 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, 8; and New Mexico, 8.
DISTANCES.
Santa Fe is distant from Kansas City
869 miles; from Denver, 1913 miles;
from Trsinidad, 2l6 miles; from Albu-
querque, IS miles; from Deming, 3l6
miles; from Fl Paso, $40 miles; from Los
Angeles, 1902 miles: from San Fran
cisco, l,2S1 miles.
ELEVATIONS.
The base of the monument in The
grand plaza is, according to latest correct
ed measurements, 7Ol9.5 feet above the
evel of the sea; Bald mountain, toward
The northeast and at the extreme north
ern end of the Santa Fe mountains,
u, 661 feet above sea level; Lake Peak, to
he right (wt ,re the Santa Fe creek has ,
is source), is ,O45 feet high the divide
Tesuque road iii; Aqua Fria, $3.50;
(west), 6,025; La Bajada,
,,5l4; mouth of Santa Fe creek north of
'ena Blanca), 5,225; Sandia mountains
highest point, l0,60S; Old Placers,
1901 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
'laza, has been occupied as an executive
mansion since 1880, the first governor and
aptain general $50 far as the data at
and reveals) being Juan de Otermin
The Plaza-Onate and De Vargas made
triumphant marches over this beautiful
asis, the one in 1891, the other in 1893.
Church OF San Miguel. in the
9Th century destroyed during the Pueblo u
evolution of 1880; rebuilt by order OF
The Marques de la Penuela, " in the =
ear ITO. r
The oldest dwelling house in the
United States is located near San Miguel
hurch. 1t was built before the Spanish
The ancient cathedrals walls are grad
ally crumbling and instead grand mod
IN stone structure is building. The old
athedral was erected in l761.
Old Fort Marcy was first recognized
nd used as strategic military point by
le Pueblo Indians when they revoltcd
yainst Spanish rule in 1850 and drove out
le enemy after besieging the city for
inc days. The American army under
carney constructed old Fort Marcy in
346.
Fort Marcy of the present day Is gar
soned BY three companies of the 10th
. S. infantry, under command of Cap -
inns Gregory Barrett, j. F. Stretch and
uggan, and here at 8 q. m. daily occurs -
lard mounting, feature of military VI
aneuverlng ever of interest to the tourist. 4
Other points of ir terest to the tourist
.e The Historical Society's rooms the
Garita," the military quarter; chapel and :.
,metery of Our Lady of the Rosary the =
lurch museum at the new cathedral, the i
gardens; church Of our Our Z
ady OF Guadalupe with its rare old works Z
art; the soldiers monument, monu- ;.
ent to the Pioneer Pathfinder, Kit 5
arson, erected by the G. A. R. Of New 5
[exico; St. Vincent hospital, conducted :
y Sisters OF Charity, and the Orphans Z
dustrial school; the Indian training 2
,hool; Loreto Academy and the chapel z
Our Lady Of Light. :
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