Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1892-07-22

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Prof 2. !. Schneider,
supt. OF Public Instruction.. Amado Chaves
HISTORICAL.
Santa Fe, the city of the Holy Faith of st.
Francis, is the capital of New Mexico, trade
center, saniarium and Archcpiscopal see.
An Indian Pueblo had existed on the site pre-.
yious to the 18th century Its name was
O-ga-p'ho-ge, but it was abandoned
before Coronados time. The Spanish town
Of Santa Fe was founded in 1906, it is there
fore the second oldest European settlement
still extant in the United States. In 1904
came the first venturesone American trader
the forerunner of the great line of mer-
chants who have made traffic over the Santa
lie trail, worldwide in its celebrity.
CITY OF SANTA FE.
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 ola pictur-
esque canon, the chief entrance to the Pecos
National Park, and through which runs the
Rio Santa Fe a beautiful mountain stream,
having its rise in the Santa Fe range of
mountains. Its elevation is 686S feet. It's
populatinn is 1850 1t las 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 frut 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. 8. court
and federal office building, the territorial
capitol St. Vincents sanitarum, territorial
penitentiary, New Mexico orphans training
school, st. Vincent's 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-
copal, Presbyterian, Methodist and Con-
gregational churches, the governors palace,
the archepiscopal residence of Archbishop J.
B. .Salpointe and Bishop P. L. Chapelle
and many others, including frst-class hotel
accommodations and several sanitary in
stitutions for the benefit of health seekers.
RESOURCES.
Santa Fe county has an area of 1,49S,OOo
acres and population of 5000. The prin.
cipal occupations are mining, sheep and cat. I
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 well 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 sANITARIUM.
But it is to Santa FEES superior climatic
advantages, and its fame as natures most
potent healing power as a cure for consump-
lion 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 a climate curative of
are, according to the best
medical testimony, altitude, dryncss, equa.
bility of temperature, light and sunshine,
and porous soil. Moreover, if possible,
these must be sought in localities interesting
md attractive, where variety and occara.
lion Lay be had, and the social advantages
IRE good.
An eminent German authority says: "The
altitude most favorable to the human organ
sm Is about 1000 meters" somewhat more
han $500 feet.