Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-12-30
A Detailed Study Of the Irri-
CATION Progress and Pros
poets.
Mines and Mining---Steck Rails
ing and the Different Parts
Of the County Com
pared.
Railroad Facilities and Business-A
Growing and Thriving Re-
gion with Promising
Future.


Fill our rooms with sculptures and witt
But we can not buy with gold the old as
Santa Fe city and county are among
the few historic places in the United
States. The city was founded in 1905
before Raleigh planted his first settle
ment at Roanoke, before John Smith be-
gan his adventurous career in Virginia.
before the Pilgrims shi7e1ed on the bleak
rocks at Plymouth. Every hill that is
kissed by the sunlight, every plain, is
classic ground. Here the great Onate
founded the first colony of Europeans;
here seventy-tive years later, the rebel
llous Pueblcs concentrated their forces
and beleaguered the Spaniards in the old
palace that still stands in all it's historic
glamor. This town was the center of all
the tragedies, festivals and stirring events
that marked the Spanish era. Hence set
forth the gallant companies that held the
Apaches and Navajos in check. Almost
every home in the city is the shrine OF
some hero, or wells the record of some
mournful event. The Spanish viceroya
lived in an atmosphere of intrigue and
plots, consequently every epoch is a story
full of all those tragic elements that
make popular epics. Tho longtime
isolated city of Santa Fe is as full OF
story as Athens, the palace is as interest.
ing in its legends as the Acropolis.
ROMANTIC SANTA FEE.
| Santa Fe ID romantic even in it's situa.
tion. Height over height rise the forested
hills until they eliminate in the fair
round dome of Old Badly, whose snowy
crest turns aside the storms that would
! otherwise hurl themselves on the valley
! At the town site the hills widen into a
coy valley through which runs the Santa
Fe creek Along its banks lies the town
in bowl shaped depression in the hills
| Travellers dilate on tho glories of Cali
! fornia's golden hills, tell of the beauties
of the Allegheneys, and even rave over
European landscapes. Few seen, to
realize the grandeur of this climate. Every
time tho sun rises or sets there is re-
yealed an unequaled picture of lovely
ness. The sunsets are especially beauti-
full. The last hour of day is enhancing.
| a tender flush warns the hills from base
to summit. 1t ia one of the peculiar
| phenomena of nature. For few mo-
ments only it is at it's best. There is
no word or term in the language to e1-
press the color, except to say it is tho
same as the modest blush of u maiden's
cheek. It is as though rosy light were
reflected through the windows of heaven.
MOUNTAIN TOWN.
Santa Fe is a mountain town, over
| 1000 feet above sea-level, to the south
and west of which lies level plain of
about 10000 acres. 1t is in the sunshine
belt, and as said by Prof Mark w. Har-
rington, the great meteorologist, is always
in the dry, sunshine area of the United
States, no matter how that region may
shift so far as the balance of the country
is concerned. 1t is town of about 5000
permanent Inhabitants. The county is
in the center of the territory, and is
traversed from east to west by the A., T.
& 8. F. railroad. 1t lie bounded on the
north by Rio Arriba county, at the line of
the 36th parallel of latitude, and extends
thence south short distance below the
35th parallel, distance of seventy-two
miles long and is thirty miles wide, with
total area of $1,49S,6OO acres; of which
according to the surveyor generals
figures $4,000 acres are irrigable. The
surface of the country is beautifully diver
sified. On the eastern boundary the
main range of the Rockies protects the
plains from violent winds, while the west
is sheltered by the Jemez and Vale
mountains. This section was selected by
the Spaniards as tho most adaptable to