Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-05-03
From this 1t will appear that Santa Fe 10

From tEts 1t will appear that Santa Fe 10
relatively warmer i'll winter and cooler in
GUNNER than other places having nearly
the same annual temperature. Compare
the difference between the coolest month
and the warmest month for these places.
In Santa Fe the monthly range is 1913, in
Boston, 45.l; Albany, 494; Buffalo, 44.8;
Detroit, 446: Grand Haven, 437; North
Platte, 52.3 We find that Santa Fe has the
spring temperature of northern Illinois and
Indiana, the summer temperature of north.
ern Wisconsin and Michigan, the autumn
temperature Of Wisconsin and Michigan,
and the winter temperature of central
Illinois and Indiana. In other words by
staying in Santa Re, the invalid gets the
favorable summers that a resident of Spring
field, Illinois, can get only by emigrating
annually to Lake Superior.
Here is neurological data for 1891 as fur.
nished by the U. S. local weather bureau:
Average temperature. ....................., Ats
Average relative humidity. .-...., ......... 5l.S
Average velocity of wind, miles per
holir."..';.... '......'...'''- ammonium 10
Total rainfall .......-. ...o...-..lS
Number of cloudles days, ........ ........... 1876
Number OF TAR ayS...-...-..-.."......... lU7
Number of cloudy days...................... S.
For tubercular diseases the death rate in
New Mexico is the lowest in the union, the
ratio being as follows: New England, 25,
Minnesota, IA; southern states, 6; New Mex.
leo, g.
DISTANCES.
Santa Fe is distant from Kansas City s6s
niles from Denver 1888; miles; from Trinidad,
2l6 miles; from Albuquerque, IS miles, from
Deming, 3l6 miles; from Ell Paso, $40 miles;
from Los Angeles, 1882 miles: from San
Francisco, 1881 miles.
POINTS OF INTEREST.
There are some forty various points OF
more or less historic interest in aud about
the ancient city
The old adobe palace stands on the spot
where the old Spanish palace had been erect
cd shortly after 1906. That ancient structure
was destroyed in 1850, and the present one
was constructed between 1897 and 17l6.
The chapel of San Miguel was built be-
tween 1886 and 1880. In the latter years the
Indians destroyed it, Fully restored in 17l0,
1t 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.
Otner points OF Interest 10 the tOuTlSUS
are: The Historal Society's rooms; the
"Garita,' the military quarters; chapel and
cemetery of Our Lady of the Rosary; the
church museum at the new cathedral, thu
archbishop's garden church of Our Lady OF
Guadalupe with its rare old works of art;
the soldiers monument monument to the
Pioneer Path Finder, Kit Carson, erected by
the G. A. R. of New Mexico; St. Vincent's
hospital, conducted by the Sisters of Charity,
and the Orphans ind lstrial school; the In
dian training school; Loretto Academy and
the chapel of Our Lady of Light; the Ramo.
ma Indian school, st. Catharine's Indian
school.
The sght-seer here may also take 8
vehicle and enjoya days outing with both
pleasure and profit The various spots Of
interests to be visited are Tesuque pueblo,
tax ng in the divide route Monument rock,
up in picturesque Santa Fee canon; the Aztec
mineral springs; Nambs pueblo; Aqua Fris
village the turquoise mines; place of the as.
sassnation of Governor Perez; San Ildefonso
pueblo or the ancient cliff dwellings, beyond
the Rio Grande.
THE MILITARY rosr.
At Santa Fe is the Oldest military estab.
lishment on American soil, having been in