Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-02-13
SAINT re.
4 Few Facts for the General lnforna-
ton Of Tourists and Sight
Seers Visiting the
CAPITAL CITY OF NEW MEXICO
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY

CAPITAL CITY OF NEW MEXl0
OFFICIAL DIRECTORY
TERRITORIAL.
Delegate ia Congress ........ .. ANTHrNi JOSEF
Governor ........,...,,....L. BRADFoRD PRiS'
Secretary .. ...... .. Is. NJ. 1HuM.
Solicitor General. ...... EDWARD l.. E,RTLE.
| Auditor ................ TRINIDAD ALARi
| Treasurer 49, @. ANTONIO ORTIZ Y 5AIAZA
Adjutant General. ...,....... T. W, NTNEQC
JUDICIARY.
| Chief Justice Supreme Court go. (, Y. Lon
Associate Justice LIST district. W. H, WHtrEntA
Associate Justice I'd district go. Nd. Ii.
| Associate Justice 81 district ..,. j. Is. MCFl
| Presiding Justice 4th district ....... K =. Lon
| U. ). District Attorney. e. ... .... f. \. FISK
| Z. S. Marshal 90. ..... TRINIDAD Rom ar
Llerk Supreme Court ....SUMMERs BuRKHAK
LAND DEPARTMENT.
q. s. Surveyor General, go. EDWARD F. !loBAg
q. s. Land Register Sc. 90. e.. a. L. MORRlSO!
Receiver Public Moneys. ....WM. NJ BEIGE
U. ). ARMY.
Commander at Fl. Marcy, Col. Henry DOUGLAS
Adjutant .......... LIEUT. s. \ SEYBI' q
Ouartermaster . ....... ....... LIEUT.. pLUMMEI
Disbursing Q. NJ Capt. j. w Summerhnyes
Sec'y bureau OF Immigration ...... Max Fhn~
o. s. Int. Rev. Collector .....-.. up. MCGRoRT,
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 hourlshiDg Pueblo village. The his
tory of its first European settlement was
lost, with most of the earl 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
"apitai 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 lie permanent cure of pull
complaints, as hundreds will be
Y lUIlCSS,J duu ny hOlll pOlIlU 10
Joint almost any desired temperature
nay be enjoyed. The altitude of some of
he principal points in the territory is
Is follows Santa Fe, 7,047; Costilla,
TIA; TERRA Amarillo, 1850; Glorieta,
,5S7; Taos, $3.50; Las Vegas, 6,452
Jimarron, +, 4S9, Bernalillo, 5,7O4; Albu-
4,9lS; Socorro, 1865; Las
Jruces, 1874; Silver City, 5,946; #.
Stanton, $500. The mean temperature
t the government station at Santa Fe,
Or the years named was as follows; 1874
SO degrees; 1875, 4S.6 degrees; 1876, |
81; 1877, 1873; 1878, AIS. 1879, sos;
$50, 46.6; which shows an extraordinary
Uniformity. For tubercular diseases the
cath rate in New Mexico is the lowest in
he union, the ratio being as follows
lew England, %; Minnesota, IA; South
IN States, =; and New Mexico, 3.
DISTANCES.
Santa Fe is distant from Kansas City
- miles; from Denver, 33s miles;
ON Trsinidad, PIG miles; from Albu
lerque, So miles; from Dening, 316
lies: from FL Paso, 34n miles from Los
ngeles, l,U32 miles; from San Fran
SEQ, PSI miles.
ELEVATIONS.
The base of the monument in The
and plaza is, according to latest correct
| measurements, 7,Ul9.5 feet above the
vel of the sea Bald mountain, toward
e northeast and at the extreme north
n end of the Santa Fe mountains,
1861 feet above sea level; Lake Peak, to
e right (wf IRE the Santa Fe creek has
source), is l2,045 feet high the divide
'esuque road) iii; Aqua Fria, $3.50 /;
eDeguilla (west, 6,025; La Bajada,
5l4 mouth of Santa Fe creek (north of
ma Blanca), 5,225; Sandia mountains
ighest point, lO,60S; Old Placers,
Sol; Los Cerrillos mountains (south),
5S4 feet in height.
POINTS OF INTEREST.
There are some forty various points of
ore or less historic interest in and about
e ancient city:
The Adobe Palace, north side of the
,za, has been occupied as an executive
insion since 1850, the first governor and
plain general $50 far as the data at
nd reveals) being Juan de Otermin
The Plaza-Onate and De Vargas made
umphant marches over this beautiful
sis, the one in 1891, the other in lGo3.
Church of San Miguel. Erected in the
n century destroyed during the Pueblo ,
yolution of 1880; rebuilt by order of
he Marques de la Penuela, ;" in the =
ar ITO. r
The oldest dwelling house in the
lited States is located near San Miguel
lrch. 1t was built before the Spanish
lquest.
The ancient cathedral's walls are grad
ly crumblng and instead a grand mod
stone structure is building. The old
hedral was erected in l76l.
Did Fort Marcy was first recognized
| used as strategic military point by
Pueblo Indians when they revoItc,l
inst Spanish rule in 1850 and drove out
enemy after besiegng the city for
e days. The American army under
arney constructed old Fort Marcy in
+.
'ort Marcy of the present day is gar
med By three companies of the 10th
S. infantry, under command of Cap -
Is Gregory Barret, j. F. Stretch and
5gan, and here at 8 a. m. daily occurs -
I'd mounting, a feature OF military u
ever of interest to the tourist q
)ther points Of if terest to the tourist
: The Historical Society's rooms ; the
arita, the military quarter; chapel and =,
letery of Our Lady of the Rosary; the Z
rch museum at the new cathedral, the 4
hbishop's gardens; church Of our Our (
ly Of Guadalupe with its rare old works :
art the soldiers monument, monu- ;.
Mt to the Pioneer Pathfinder, Kit 5
son, erected by the G. A. r. of New :
xico; st. Vincent hospital, conducted :
Sisters of Charity, and the Orphans :
ustrial school; the Indian training :
DOL; Loreto Academy and the chapel :
)ur Lady Of Light. :