Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1891-04-22
HISTORICAL.


santa Fe, the city of the Holy Faith Q
st. Francis, is the capital of New Mexico
trade center, sanitary and archepiscopal sec
An Indian pueblo had existed on the sit
previous to the 18th century. Its name wa
O-ga-p 'ho-ge, but it had been abandone
long before Coronado's time. The Spans
| Town OF Santa Fe was founded in 1905, it i
therefore the second oldest European settle
| ment still extant in the United States. 7,
ioo4 came the first venturesome American
trader-the forerunner of the great line O
merchants who have made traffic over tb,
Santa Fe worldwide in its celebrity,
THE CLIMATE
OF New Mexico is considered the finest or
the continent. The high altitude insure.
dryness and purity Especially adapted tc
the permanent cure of pulmonary com
plants, as hundreds will be witness,) and
by travelling from point to point almost any
desired temperature may be enioved. The
altitude of some of the prin points in
the territory is as follows: Santa Fe, 7O47.
Costilla, 774 TERRA Amarillo, 1855; Clio.
rieta, 1887; Taos, $3.50; Las Vegas 6.452.
Cimarron, 6,4S9; Bernalillo, 5,764; Albu..
querque, 4,918; Socorrc, 1855; Las Cruces
1874; Silver City, 5,946; Fl. Stanton, $500.
The mean temperature at the government
station at Santa Fe, for the years named as
was as follows: 1874, 4S.9 degree 1875, 1876
degrees; 1876, 4S.1; 1877, 4S.3; 1878, 476;
1879, 500; 1880, 1866; which shows an extra,
ordinary uniformity. For tubercular dis
eases the death rate in New Mexico is the
lowest in the union, the ratio being as fol-
lows: New England, Is; Minnesota, IA;
Southern States, 6; and New Mexico, g.
DISTANCES.
Santa Fe is distant from Kansas Citv 800
miles; from Denver 1888 miles; from Trini-
dad, 2l6, miles from Albuquerque, IS
miles from Deming, 3l6; from Ell Paso,
S40 miles; from Los Angeles, 1882 miles
from San Francisco, 1881 miles.
ELEVATIONS.
The base of the monument in the grand
plaza is, according to latest corrected meas
urements, 7,Ol9.5 feet above the level of the
sea; Bald mountain, toward the northwest
ana at the extreme northern end of the
Santa Fe mountains, is 1861 feet above sea
level; Lake Peak, to the right (where the
Santa Fe creek has its source), is 12,O45 feet
high the divide (Tesuque road) III !.
Augua Fria, $3.50; Cineguilla (west) COPS
La Bajada, 5,514; mouth of Santa Fe creek |
north of Pena Blanca) 5,225; Sandi.
mountains highest point, 10,6OS; Old |
Placers, 6,SOl; Los Cerrillos mountain.
SOUTH, 1854 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 stands on the spot where
he old Spanish palace had been erected
hortly after 1906 That ancient structure
vas destroyed in 1850, and the present one
vas constructed between 1897 and 1716.
The chapel of San Miguel was built be.
ween 1886 and 1880. In the latter wears
he Indians destroyed it. Fully restored in
I'll, it had previously, and after 1893, been
ne only Spanish chapel in Santa Fe. It
I'LL remains the Oldest church in use in
lew Mexico.
The walls of the old cathedral date in part
ON 1922; but the edifice proper is from the
asst century.
Other points of interest to the tourist are:
ne Historical Society's rooms; the "Gari.
!" the military quarter; chapel and GENE.
'ry OF Our Lady of the Rosary the church
iuseum at the new cathedral, the arch
shops garden; church OF Our Lady of
uadalupe with its rare old works of art;
re soldiers monument, monument to the
ioneer Pathfinder, Kit Carson, erected by
lie G. A. R. of New Mexico; st. Vincentis
ospital, conducted by the Sisters of Charity.
ID the Orphans industrial school the In.
an training school; Loreto Academy and
10 chapel Of Our Lady Of Light.
The sigbt-seer here may also take vehicle
ma ENJOY days outing with both pleasure
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