Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-05-24

| AEhhiToRIAL BOARD OF EDUCATION,
Governor Il Bradford Prince, Prof, Hiram
Hadley. Elias s. Slower Amado Chayes,
Prof. P. J. Schneider,
t.of Public Instruction. ..Amado Chaves
HISTORICAL.
=, Santa Fe the city of the Holy Faith of st.
francls, is the capital of New Mexico, trade
center, sanitarium and Archepiscopal see,
An Indian Pueblo had existed on the Site pre.
yious to the 18th century. Its name was
O-ga-pho-ge, but it was abandoned
before Coronado's time The Spanish town
OF Santa Fe was founded in 1906, it is there
lore the second Oldest European settlement
SILL extant in the United States. In 1904
came the first venturesome American trader
the forerunner of the great line of mer.
chants who have made traffic over the Santa
Re trail, worldwide in its celebrity.
CITY OF sANTAFE
The city lies in charming nook on the
west side of the Santa Fe range and is shell
tered from the northern winds by a spur of
low hills which extend from the mountains
west as far as the Rio Grande. 1t lies in the
center of the valley at the mouth ola pctur.
esque canon, the chief entrance to the PecOs
National Park, and through which runs the
Klo Santa Fe, beautiful mountain stream
having its rise in the Santa Fe range of
mountains. Its elevation is 6,S6S feet. Its
populatinn is 1850. 1t has good schools and .
churches. There IS an excellent system of .
water works. The city is lighted with gas
and electricity. 1t has more points of his
toric interest than any other place on the |
North American continent. Land may be
purchased at prices to snt the rich or the
poor. Five acres in Santa Fe or vicinity
Will nr00upn fhon Io
anywhere else in the world. Our markets
are close at hand and we can successfully
compete with any other locality. Since the
nrst fruit tree was planted in the Santa Fe
valley there has been but one failure in the
nut crop. What place, what country can
approach this record?
PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
Among the more important public insti.
tutions located here, in spacious and attrac.
tive modern buildings, are the U. s. court
and federal office building the territorial
capitol, st. Vincents sanitarium, territorial
penitentiary, New Mexico orphans training
school, st. Vincents charity hospital, U, S,
government Indian school, Ramona memo.
rial institute for Indian girls, st. Catherine
Indian boys training school, Fort Marcy
barracks, st. Michaeps college, Loretto acad-
envy, Presbyterian home missions industrial
school for girls, New Mexico deaf and dumb
New West academy, Catholic
cathedral and four parish churches, EMS
copal, Presbyterian, Methodist and Con.
gregational churches the governors palace.
the archepiscopal residence of Archbishop.
B. Salpointe and Bishop P. l.. Chapelle
and many others, including first.class hotel
accommodations, and several sanitary in
for the benefit of health seekers.
RESOURCES.
Santa Fe county has an area of 1,49S,000
acres and population of 1000. The prin- {
,ipal occupations are mining, sheep and cat.
lie raising, truck farming and fruit growing.
The valley soils are especially adapted to
horticulture and there is at hand never G
ailing market in the mining camps.
In the southern portion of the county I
mining forms the principal industry, the /
arge deposits of coal, lead, silver, iron, cop !
Der and gold, in veins as well as in the form
If placer gold, at Cerrillos, New Placers
Dolores), Golden and San Pedro being Just. ]
y noted for their richness.
THE WORLDS sANITARIUM. !
But it is TO Santa Fe's superior climatic
advantages, and its fame as natures most
'otent healing power as cure for consump- !
ion and other pulmonary disease that Santa i
Re bases its great future upon. The highest
American medical authorities concede the
uperior advantages of the city's location. +
The requisites of climate curative of 2
consumption, are, according to the best l
medical testimony, altitude, dryness, equa- f
ility of temperature light and sunshine, /
nd porous soil. Moreover, if possible,
hese must be sought in localities interesting
nd attractive, where variety and occlpa.
lon lay be had, and the social advantages I
re good. t
An eminent German authority says: "The
ltitnde most favorable to the human organ v
I'm Is about 1000 METERS" somewhat more e
han $500 feet. v