Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-11-27
HISTORICAL,

Santa Fe, the city of the Holy Faith OF
ST. Francis, is the capital of New Mexico,
trade center, sanitary and archepiscopal see.
An Indian pueblo had existed on the site
previous to the 18th century. Its name was
O-ga-p' ho-ge, but it bad been abandoned
long before COronado's tine. The Spanish
town Of Santa Fe was founded in 1905. il is
therefore the second oldest European settle
ment still eYtant in the United states. Ii
1904 came the first venturesome American
Grader-the forerunner Of the great line OF
merchants 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 insures
dryness and purity Especially adapted to
the permanent cure of pulmonary COM
plants, rs hundreds will be Witness and
by travelling from point to point almost any
desired ter perature may be enjoyed. The
altitude of some of the principal points III
the territory is as follows: Santa Fe, 7047;
Costilla, 7,774; Terra Amarilla, 1855; Clio
reta 1857; Taos, $3.50; Las Vegas, 1852 /;
Cimarron, 6,4S9; Bernalillo, 5,7O4; Albu-
querque, 4,9lS; SocorrC, 1855; Las Cruces,
3,844; Silver City, 5,946; 1T. Stanton, $500.
The mean temperature at the government
station at Santa Fe. for tho years named as
was as follows 1874, 4S.9 degree 1875, 46.6
degrees; 1876, 4S1; 1877, 40.3; 1878, 47.6 ;
1879, 500; 1880, 1876; which shows an extra
ordinary uniformity. For tubeYCular dis
eases the death rate in New Mexico is the
lowest in the union, the ratio being as fol-
lows New England, %; Minnesota, IA;
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DISTANCES
Santa Fe is distant from Kansas CITY $50
miles; from Denver 3&S miles; from Trini-
dad, 2l6, miles from AIbuqueTuue, IS
miles from Daming, BIG; from ii Paso,
$40 miles from IL, Angeles, 1872 miles
from San Francisco l,23I miles.
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plaza IL, ae.o o.n 70 -.,''I C'IIecle,i meas
uremG.ts, I'ol"'' '9s' ore I.'e 4cFel .! Ille
sea; ba!a mounta'h' to"ir" 'he northwest
anu al tne eAtIeh, . =, ~, 20 emu oi Iile
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level lake leak' 10 ln' lI5lI IMleFe tlle
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POINTS OF INTEREs'.
There are some forty various points of
more or less historic interest i'll and about
the ancient city:
The adobe palace stands on the spot where
the old Spanish palace had been erected
shortly after 1905. That ancient structure
was destroyed in 1880, and the present one
was constructed between 1897 and ZIG
The chapel OF San Miguel was built be-
tween 1886 and 1880. In the latter years
the Indians destroyed it. Fully restored in
I'LL, it had previously, and after 1893, been
S I.n oiiy oPamioh Illalel IN 0a"ta re- ~
New Mexico.
The walls of the old cathedral date in part
from 1877; but the editice proper is from the
pa Hth 'en. un;yt. of ;,touo..
The Historical Societv,s rooms. the "Gari.
ta," the military quarter; chapel and GENE.
terry of Our Lady of the Rosary the church
museum at the new cathedral, the arch
bishops garden; church OF Our Lady of
Guadalupe with its rare old works of art;