Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-01-20

Santa Fe, the city of the Holy Faith Of
st. Francis, is the capital of New Mexico,
trade center, sanitary and archepiscopal see
An Indian pueblo had existed on the site
previous to the 18th century. Its name was
O-ga-p' ho-ge, but it had been abandoned
long before Coronado's time. The Spanish
town Of Santa Fe was founded in 1865, it is
therefore the second oldest European settle
anent still extant in the United statt !. In
1904 came the first ventureSome American
tradcr-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 ten perature may be enjoyed. The
altitude of some of the principal points in
the territory is as follows: Santa Fe, 7,047;
Costilla, 7,774 TERRA Amarillo, 1855; Clio
rieta, 1887; Taos, $3.50; Las Vegas, 6,452 !;
Cimarron, 6,4S9; Bernalillo, 5,704; Albu-
querque, 4,91S Socorrc, 1865; Las Cruces
1914; Silver City, 5,946; TT. Stanton, $500
The mean temperature at the government
station at Santa Fe for the years named as
was as follows: 1874, 480 degree 1875, 1856
degrees; 1876 481; 1877 4S.3; 1878, 476
1879, 500; 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, 6; and New Mexico, 3.
DISTANCES.
Santa Fe is distant from Kansas City 1863
miles; from Denver 1888 miles, from Trini-
dad, 2l6, miles; from Albuquerque, So
miles, from Deming, 316 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, 1925 feet above the level of the
sea; Bald mountain, toward the northwest
and 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 l2,045 feet
high; the divide (Tesuque road) III !;
Augua Fria, 6,48O; Cineguilla, (west) Co.'s !;
La Bajada, 5,514; mouth of Santa Fe creek
north of Pena Blanca, 5,225; Sandis
mountains (highest point, 10,G0S; Ole
Placers, 6,S0l; Los Cerrillos mountain
(south), 1854 feet in height.
POINTS OF INTEREST.
There are some forty various points of
more or less historic in terest in 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 1850, and the present one
was constructed between 1897 and l7l6.
The chapel of San Miguel was built be-
tween 1886 and 1880. In the latter years
the Indians destroyed it. Fully restored in
I'LL, it had previously, and after 1893, been
the only Spanish chapel in Santa Fe 1t
still remains the Oldest church in use in
New Mexico.
The walls of the old cathedral date in part
from 1922; but the editice 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. Il. Of New Mexico; st. Vncents
hospital, conducted by the Sisters of Charity,
and the Orphans industrial school the In
dian training school; Loreto Academy and
the chapel of Our Lady Of Light.
The sight-seer here may also take vehicle
and enjoy days outing with both pleasure
and profit. The various spots of interests
to be visited are Tesuque pueblo, taking in