Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-08-31
TERRITORIAL BOARD OF EDUCATION

governor Ia Bradford Prince, Prof. Hiram
Hadley, Elias s. Slower Amado Chayea
Prof. ?. J. Schneider,
supt. OF Public Instruction. =. Amado Chaye
HISTORICAL.
Santa Fe, the city of the Holy Faith of ST
Francis, is the capital of New Mexico, trad
center, sanitarium and Archcpiscopal see
An Indian Pueblo had existed on the site pre-
yious to the 18th century. Its name wa
O-ga-p'hO-ge, but it was abandoned
before Coronado's time. The Spanish tow
Of Santa Fe was founded in 1905, it is there
fore the second Oldest European settlement
still extant in the United States. In $780,
came the first yenturesonie American trader
the forerunner of the great line of mer
chants who have made traili over the SAINTS
Fe trail, worldwide in its celebrity.
CITY OF SANTA FE.
The city lies in charming nook on thu
west side of the Santa Fe range and is shell
tered from the northern winds by a spur o.
low hills which extend from the mountain:
west as far as the Rio Grande. 1t lies in the
center of the valley at the mouth of pictur
esque canon, the chief entrance to the Peco.
National Park, and through which runs thu
Rio Santa Fe a beautiful mountain stream
having its rise in the Santa Fe range OF
mountains. Its elevation is 6SGS 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 snt 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.
buttons located here, in spacious and attrac-
tive modern buildings, are the U. 8. court
and federal office building, the territorial
capitol, st. Vincents sanitarium, territorial
penitentiary, New Mexico orphans training
school, st. Fincents charity hospital, U. s.
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 dumb
institute, New West academy, Catholic
cathedral and four parish churches, Epis-
oopal, Presbyterian, Methodist and Con-
gregatonal churches, the governors palace,
the archepiscopal residence of Archbishop ].
B. Salpointe and Bishop P. l.. Chapele
and many others, including first-class hotel
accommodations, and several sanitary in.
stitutions for the benefit of health seekers.
RESOURCES.
Santa Fe county has an area of ,49S, 900
acres and population OF lo,o1o. The prin.
cipal occupations are mining, sheep and cat.
tie raising, truck farming and fruit growing
The valley soils are especially adapted to
horticulture and there is at hand never
failing market in the mining camps.
In the southern portion of the county
mining forms the principal industry, the
large deposits of coal, lead, silver, iron, cop.
per and gold, in veins as we'll as in the form
Of placer gold, at Cerrillos, New Placers
(Dolores), Golden and San Pedro being just
ly noted for their richness.
THE WORLDS sANITARIUA.
But it is to Santa FEES superior climatic
and its fame as natures most
potent healing power as cure for consump-
ton and other pulmonary disease that Santa
Fe bases its great future upon. The highest
American medical authorities concede the
superior advantages of the city's location.
The requisites of climate curative of
are, according to the best
medical testimony, altitude, dryness, equa.
bility of temperature, light and sunshine,
and porous soil Moreover, if possible,
these must be sought in localities interesting
and attractive, where variety and occ1pa.
ton Lay be had, and the social advantages
ere good.
An eminent German authority says: "The
altitude most favorable to the human organ
lsm is about 1900 METERS" somewhat more
han $500 feet