Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-07-24
MEAN.

From ts,s 1t viii appear tina. Banta Tc Is
summer than other places having nearly
the sams annual temperature. Compars
the difference between the coolest month
and the warmest month for these places.
In Santa Fe the monthly range is 1913, in
Boston, 451; Albany, 49.4; Buffalo, AS;
Detroit 44.6: Grand Haven, 437; North
Platte, 1913: 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
-+,-'re IN ean+e Fe, thu invalid gets tbs
favorable SUMMERS tlai e RESIDENT Vi Spring
field, Illinois, can get only by emigratinB
annually to Lake Superior.
Here Il neurological data for 1891 as fur
nished by the U. s. local weather bureau:
Average temperature. ......... 47.3
Average relative humidity. ......... SIS
Average velocity Of wind, miles per
hour.....".... 1.5
Total rainfall. .........- .....". ..."""...lo75
Number Of cloudles days. ........... 1875
Number of fair days .......-.............. 107
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, %;
Minnesota, Il; southern etateB, 6: New Mox-
leo, 8.
DISTANCES.
Santa Fe is distant from Kanza. City 1853
miles; from Denver SS8; miles; from Trinidad,
PIG miles; from Albuquerque, IS miles; from
Deming, 316 miles; from FL Paso, $40 miles;
from Los Angeles, l032 miles: from San
Francisco, l,2s1 miles.
POINTS CT INTEREST.
There are some forty various points OF
more or less historic interest in aud about
the ancient city.
Ths old adobe palace stands on the spo.
where the old Spanish palace had been erect
ID shortly after 1905. That ancient structure
was destroyed in 1880, and the present one
was constructed between 1897 and 1716.
The chapel Of San Miguel was built 30.
tween 1888 and 1850. In the latter years tho
Indians DESTROYED it. Fully restored in lilo,
Il had previously and after 1898, been the
emily Spanish chapel in Santa Fe. 1t still
remains the eldest church in use in New
Mexico.
The walls Of the old cathedral date in part
from 1922; but the edi6ce proper is from ths
past century.
Other points of interest to the tourists
are: The Historal Society's rooms; th9
''Garita," the military quarters; chapel ana
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 industrial school; the IN,
dian training school; Loretto Academy aiI4
the chapel Of Our Lady Of Light; tho Kam :
M Indian school; st. Catharins's indian
school.
The sight-seer here may also take 2
vehicle and enjoy days outing with both
pleasure and profit. The various spots OF
interests to be visited ere Tesuque puenio,
taking in the divide route; Monument rock,
mp In picturesque Santa Fe canon; the Aztec
mineral springs; Nambe pueblo; Aqua Fra
village; the turquoise mines; place OF tne rs
ssssination of Governor Perez; San lldelons9
pueblo, or the ancient cliff dwellings, neyono
The Rio Grande.
THE MILITARY POST
At Santa Fe is the Oldest military estab-
lishmsnt on American SOIL having been I'D ~
almost continuous occupation since l6O1
when the epaniards first established , nsrs
their base Of operations Old Fort Marcy
9as built by q. 8. soldiers in 1916 ana tne
asw post was occupied few years lss: :!