Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-10-14
TERRITORIAL BOARD OF EDUCATION,

TERRITORIAL BOARD OF EDUCATION,
Governor l. Bradford Prince Prof Hiram
Hadley Elias s. Slower, Amado Chaves,
Prof, P. J. Schneider,
Supt. of Public Instruction.. Amado Cbaves
HISTORICAL.
Santa Fe, the city of the Holy Faith of st.
Francis, is the capital of New Mexico, trade
center, santarium and Archepiscopal see.
An Indian Pueblo had existed on the site pre-
vious to the 18th century. Its name was
O-ga- p'ho-ge but it was abandoned
before Coronado's time. The Spanish town
Of Santa Fe was founded in 1905, it is there
fore the second Oldest European settlement
still 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 tratii C over the Santa
Fe 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 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 apictur.
esque canon, the chief entrance to the Pecos
NationaLPark, and through which runs the
Rio Santa Fe, beautiful mountain stream,
| having its rise in the Santa Fe range of
mountains. Its elevation is 6,S6S feet. It's
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 snit the rich or the
poor. Five acres in Santa Fe or vicinity
will produce more than can be produced
anywhere else in the world. Our markets
are close at hand and we can successfully
compete with any other locality. Since the
first frat tree was planted in the Santa Fe
valley there has been but one failure in the
fruit 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. cour
and federal Office building the territorial
capitol, St. Vincent's sanitarium, territorial
penitentiary, New Mexico orphans training
school, st. Vincent's charity hospital, U. 8
government Indian school, Ramona memo
rial institute for Indian girls, st. Catherine
Indian boys training school, Fort Marcy
barracks, st. Michael's college, Loretto acad
envy, Presbyterian home missions industrial
school for girls, New Mexico deaf and duml
institute, New West academy, Catholic
cathedral and four parish churches, Epis
copal, Presbyterian, Methodist and Con
gregational churches, the governors palace
the archepiscopal residence of Archbishop ]
B. Salpointe and Bishop P. L. Chapell'
and many others, including first-class hote
accommodations, and several sanitary in
stitutions for the benefit of health seekers.
RESOURCES.
Santa Fe county has an area of 1,490,0o
acres and population of l6,0lo. The prin
cipal occupations are mining, sheep and cat
tie raising, truck farming and fruit growing
The valley soils are especially adapted t
horticulture and there is al hand neve
failing market in the mining camps.
In the southern portion of the count
mining forms the principal industry, tn
large deposits of coal, lead, silver, iron, cor
Der and gold, in veins as well as in the forr
Of placer gold, at Cerrillos, New Placer
(Dolores), Golden and San Pedro being JUS
iy noted for their richness.
THE WORLDS sANIrARrUM.
But it is to Santa FEES superior climati
advantages, and its fame as natures mos
potent healing power as cure for consumI
ton and other pulmonary disease that SAINT
Fe bases its great future upon. The highe'
: American medical authorities concede tn
\ superior advantages of the city's location.
The requisites of climate curative
e consumption, are, according to the be
medical testimony, altitude, dryness, equi
: bility of temperature. light and sunshin
l and a porous soil. Moreover, if possibl
r these must be sought in localities interestir
i and attractive, where variety and occar
:. lion lay be had, and the social advantag
;. are good. u,
An eminent German authority says "Tl
altitude most favorable TO the human orgal
!. Ism is about 2CQ0 meters" somewhat mo
han $500 feet