Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-04-21
SANTA re.
a Few Facts for the General Informs
ton Of Tourists and Sight
SeerAVisiting the
CAPITAL CITY OF NEW MEXICO
OFFICIAL DIKECrORy,

Chief Justice supreme Court. JAS. OBRtL
Associatc Justice lst district. ". Ii. wMlTEMA
Associate Justice I'd district CO.. W. d. Ii
NsSociate Justice 20 district j. r. McFI
Presiding Justice 4th district ...... JAS. OBRIE
u. :. district Attorney. ...-. h. A. FISK
{. ). Marshal. TRINIDAD RoMER
Jerk supreme Court SUMMERS BURKHAR
LAND DEPARTMENT.
O. 5. surveyor General. 80, EDWARD F. HoBAE
U. $. Land Register......... A. L. M0RRIso!
Receiver Public Moneys. .....WA. NJ. BERGE
Z. 5. ARMY.
Commander at Fl. Marcy. Col. SIMON SNYDEl
Adjutant .......... LIEUT.. 5. \ SEiBU &.
G Sisbursins Capt w. 's summerhayes
U. s. Int Rev Collector ...,.....J.P MCGBoRr,
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
Caheza de Baca penetrated the valley OF
the Rio irande in 1888 he found Santa
Fe tiourlshing 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 nave 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
s,res 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
7,774; Terra Amarillo, 1856; Glorieta,
7,5S7; Taos, $3.50; Las Vegas, 6,452
Cimarron, 6,489, Bernalillo, 5,7O4; Albu-
querque, 1918; Socorro, 1853; Las
Cruces, 1914; 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, 1876 degrees; 1875,
48.1; 1877, 1873; 1878, 47.6. 1879, 500;
1880, 46.6; which shows an extraordinary
For tubercuar 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
$50 miles; from Denver, 1888 miles
rom Trsinidad, PIG miles; from Albu-
So miles; from Deming, 316
niles: from Fl Paso, $40 miles; from Los
Angeles, l. 032 miles; from San Fran
'isco, PSI miles.
ELEVATIONS.
The base of the monument in The
grand plaza is, according to latest correct
I'd measurements, 1923 feet above the
evel of the sea Bald mountain, toward
he northeast and at the extreme north
,rn 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 II ,045 feet high the divide
Tesuque road iii; Aqua Fria, $3.50
}ienegulla west, 6,O25; La Bajada,
,5l4 mouth of Santa Fe creek north Of
'ena Blanca, 5,225; Sandia mountains
highest point, l0,60S; Old Placers,
,S0l Los Cerrillos mountains (south),
1884 feet in height.
POINTS OF INTEREST.
There are some forty various points OF
more or less historic interest in and about
he ancie 1t city:
The A lobe Palace north side of the
laza. has been occupied as an executive
MANSION since 1880, the first governor ant
aptain general $50 far as the data at -
and rev .als) being Juan de Otermin
The Plaza-Onate and De Vargas made
,iumphant marches over this beautiful
asis, the one in 1891, the other in 1893.
Church of San Miguel in the j
9TH century; destroyed during the Pueblo
evolution of 1880; rebuilt by order OF
The Marques de la Penuela, in the {
ear l7lO.
The oldest dwelling house in the
Tnited States is located near San Miguel
hurch. 1t was built before the Spanish
onquest.
Tie ancient cathedral's walls are grad
ally crumbling and instead a 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
Ie Pnen,o Indians when they revoltcd =
5ainst spanish rule in 1850 and drove out
10 enemy after besieping the city for
inc days. The American army under
carney constructed old Fort Marcy in =
,46.
Fort Marcy of the present day Is gar
soned by three companies of the 10th
s infantry, under command of Cap
,ins Gregory Barrett, J. F. Stretch and
nppan, and here at 8 a. m. daily occurs
,urd mounting. q feature of military