Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-03-31

! From this 1t will appear that Santa Fe il
relatively warmer III winter and cooler in
summer 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 40 4; Buffalo, 44.S;
Detroit, 44.6 Grand Haven, 437; North
Platte, 1913 We find that Santa Re 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
end the winter temperature of central
Illinois and Indiana In other words, hv
staying in Santa Fe, the Invalid gers the
favorable summers that a resident OF Spring
field, Illinois, can gel only by emigra,ing
annually to Lake Superior.
! Here is meteorological data for SOL as fur.
nished by the U. s. local weather bureau
Average ure....................... AIS
Average relative humidity...... ........ Sis
Average velocity of wind, miles per
nour"."..;... minimum. ............... 7.S
Total rainfall 1873
| Number of cloudles days ................... 1876
Number of fair NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 1Q7
! Number of cloudy days. 81
For tubercular diseases the dealt. rate in
ratio being as follows: New England. Is;
Minnesota, II; southern states g. New Mex.
leo, 3.
DISTANCES
| Santa Fe Is distant from Kansas CITY 1865
miles; from Denver 3SS; miles; from Trinidad
2l6 miles; from Albuquerque, IS miles; from
Deniing BIG miles; from Ell Paso, $40 miles
from Los Angeles, 1852 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
ed shortly after 1905. That ancient structure
was destroyed in 1890, 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 destroye it, Fully restored in ITO,
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 cathed raj date in part
from 1922 but the editce proper is from the
past century.
Other points of interest to the tourists
are: The Hstoral Society's rooms; the
"Garita,' the military quarters; chapel and
cemetery of Our Lady of the Rosary; the
church museum at the new cathedral, the
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. Vincents
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. Catiiarlne's Indian
school.
The sight-seer here may also take q
vehicle and enjoys days outing with both
pleasure ana profit, The various spots Of
Interests to be visited are Tesuque pueblo,
tax ,ng in the divide route Monument rock,
up in picturesque Santa Fe canon; the Aztec
mineral springs; Nambe pueblo; Aqua Fris
village; the turquoise mines; place of the as.
sassination of Governor Perez; San lldefonso
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
almost continuous occupation since 1904
when the Spaniards first established here
their base of operations Old Fort Marcy
was built by d. 8. soldiers in lS46 and the
new post was occupied few years later.