Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-01-02

HI5rDRIChL.
|. Santa Fe, tie city of the Holy Faith Of
St. Francis, is tie capital Of New Mexico,
trade center, sanitary and archcpiseopaI see.
An Indian rucblo had existed on the site
previous to tie 10Th century. It's name was
0-ga-p' ho-ge, but it had been abandoned
long before CoronadO's time The Spanish
town Of Santa Fe was founded in 1868 it is
therefore the second oldest European settle
,uent still eXtant in the United states Ia
1904 came the first ventureSome American
trader-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, as hundreds will be witness and
by travelling from point to point almost any
desired temperature may be enjoyed. The
altitude of some of the pri, cipal points in
the territory is as follows: Santa Fe, 7047;
Costilla, 7,774 Terra Amarilla 1855; Clio
rieta, 1887; Taos, $3.50; Las Vegas, 6,452;
Cimarron, CASE; Bernalillo, 5,7O4; Albu-
querque 4,9lS; Socorro, 1885, Las Cruces,
1874; Silver City, 5,946; Ft. Stanton, $500.
The mean temperature at the government
station at Santa Fe, for the years named as
was as follows: 1874, 4S9 degree; 1875, 1876
degrees; 1876, 4S.l; 1877 4S.3; 1873, 47.6
1879, sos; 1880, 46.6; 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, rs; Minnesota, IA ;
Southern States, 8; and New Mexico, 8.
DISTANCES.
Santa Fe is distant from Kansas City 1863
miles; from Denver 1888 miles; from Trini-
dad, 2l6, miles; from Albuquerque, IS
miles, from Deming, SIG; from Ell Paso
$40 miles; from Los Angeles, 1892 miles ;
from San Francisco, 1881 miles.
ELEVATIONS.
The base of the monument in the grand
plaza is, according to latest corrected meas
urements, 70l9.5 feet above the level of the
sea; Bald mountain, toward the northwest
and at the extreme northern end of the
Santa Fe mountains, is 12,C6l feet above sea
level; Lake Peak, to the right where the
Santa Fe creek has its source) is 12,045 feet
high; the divide (Tesuque road I'll;
Augua Fria, 8,4S0 Cineguilla, west COPS
La Bajada, 55l4; mouth Of Santa Fe creek
north of Pena Blanca, 5,225; Sandis
mountains (highest point, 10G0S; OLD
Placers, 6,SOl; Los Cerrillos mountain
South, 1884 feet in height.
POINTS OF INTEREST.
There are some forty various points of
more or less historic interest III 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 1857 and 17l6.
The chapel of San Miguel was built be.
tween 1856 and 1850. In the latter years
the Indians destroyed it. Fully restored in
I'LL, it had previously, and after 1893, been
still remains the Oldest church in use in
New Mexico.
The walls Of the old cathedral date in part
from 1922; but the ediice proper is from the
past century.
Other points of interest to the tourist are
The Historical Society's rooms; the Carl
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;
the soldiers monument monument to the
Pioneer Pathfinder, Kit Carson, erected by
the G. A. +. of New Mexico; St. Vincent's
hospital, conducted by the Sisters Of Charity,
and the Orphans Industrial school the In.
dian training school; Lcrcto Academy and
tho chapel Of or- Lady Of Light,
The sight-seer here may also take vehicle
and enjoy days outing with bOth pleasure
ana profit The various spots Of interests