Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-04-19

TERRITORIAL BOARD or EpucAr1or,

TERRITORIAL BOARD or EDUCATION,
Governor l. Bradford Prince, Prof. Hiram
Hadley, Elias 8. Slower, Amado Chaves,
Prof P. :. Schneider.
Supt. of ablic INSTRUCTION.. .Amado Chavez
HISTORICAL.
Santa Fc. the city of the Holy Faith of ST.
Francis. is the capital of New Mexico trade
center, sanitarium and Archepiscopal see.
An Indian Pueblo had existed on the site pre-
yious to the 10Th century. Its name was
O.ga- p'ho-ge but it was abandoned
before Coronado's time. The Spanish town
Of Santa Fe was founded in 1905, it is there.
fore the second Oldest European settlement
still extant in the United States. In 1874
came the first venturesone American trader
the forerunner of the great line of mer.
chants who have made tratli c over the Santa
Fe trail, worldwide in its celebrity.
CITY OF SANTA rx.
The city lies in charming nook on the
west side of the Santa Fe range and is shell.
tered from the northern winds bv 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 off pctur-
esque canon, the chief entrance to the Pecoa
National Park, and through which runs tho
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having its rise in the Santa Fe range of
mountains. Its elevation is 6s6s feet Its
populatinn is 1850. 1t has 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 frait 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 recordp
PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS.
Among the more important public insti.
tutions located here, in spacious and attrac.
tive modern buildings, arc the U. s. court
and federal offics building, the territorial
capitol. st. yincent's sanitarium, 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
iAulau ooyo CIaiHiHS school, roTt 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 srchepiscopal residence of Archbishop.
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.
eanta Fe county las an area OF 1893 900
acres and population of 1000. The prin.
dpal occupations are mining, sheep and cat
tie raising, truck farming and fruit growing.
The valley soils are especially adapted t.
Horticulture and there is ~ hand never
falling 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 we'll 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 sANrTAR1ux.
But it Is to Santa Fes superior climatic
advantages, and its fame as natures most
potent healing power as cure for consump.
ton 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 q climate curative OF
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