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San Miguel Church, the oldest Christian Church building in the United States, is situated in the oldest part of the city, called by the Spaniards "Analco," adjoining St. Michael's College. It is about seventy-four feet in length, by thirty in width, and thirty-five feet high. The walls are massively built of adobe, and the roof, like those of all the old churches, was constructed of strong vigas, supported by carved timbers at each end, the whole being covered originally with straight branches of poplar or willow, surmounted by a layer of earth. In modern days, boards take the place of the branches. This church dates from the earliest occupation and has long been held in special veneration. In the Pueblo revolution . of 1680 it was, to a great extent, destroyed, though the walls re- mained standing. Immediately after the reconquest by De Vargas the church was repaired and the entire building was completed in 1710, as appears from the inscription still plainly visible' on the great square vigas near the door, which reads :
"El Senor Marques de la Penuela hizo esta fabrica. El Alferes Real Don Agustin Flores Vergara su criado . ano de 1710."
The translation is:
"The Marquis de la Penucla erected this building. The Royal Ensign Don Agustin Flores Vergara his servant. The year 1710."
Among other paintings in this church are the ones of St. Michael and the Dragon and of the Annunciation. In the church is an old
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bell cast in Spain in the Fourteenth Century. The edifice is still used as the chapel of Saint Michael's College and of a part of the Roman Catholic parish, and perhaps no scene will impress itself so vividly upon the mind of the visitor as that of "Vespers" on a Sunday evening, attended by the Christian Brothers and pupils . of the College.
The oldest house in the city, which is reputed to date back be- fore the time of the Spanish conquest, and thus is the "Oldest House in the United States," is situated just northeast of the Church of San Miguel. This building until recently was two stories in height, the second story being very low and the floor between the upper and lower rooms being of adobe. Some years ago the upper story of the eastern portion fell, and quite recently the spirit of iconoclasm, which is fast ruining many interesting historical landmarks, caused the second story of the remainder to be removed. The first story, however, remains as it has been for centuries, and there seems no reason to doubt that it is the most ancient building, continuously inhabited, in the entire United States.
The Cathedral of San Francisco de Assisi is a modern building, not yet completed in accordance with its design, but has been used for worship during the past twenty-five years. It was built over the former adobe Parish Church under the auspices of the venerated Archbishop Lamy. There are many fine paintings and beautiful. stained glass windows in the structure; behind the altar is a richly carved and painted reredos, erected by Governor del Valle and his wife in 1761. Back of the altar of this Cathedral are preserved many fine old paintings and rich vestments. There are buried the remains of two Franciscan Friars, who were murdered by Indians, as attested by the inscription upon a beam set into the massive wall.
Old Fort Marcy is situated on a high hill northeast of the Plaza, and the view from the summit is admired by every visitor. His- torically, it is a place of great interest. A moment's notice will show its commanding military position, and that the army in possession of the hill controlled this city. In the old wars this was a scene of many a warlike encampment. When General Kear- ny came, in 1846, one of the first matters undertaken after the occupation of Santa Fe, on August 18, was the erection of a fort- ress to command the city. The site was naturally chosen. It was built by details of volunteers, who complained grievously of having to do this laborious work when they had simply entered the army to fight. The fort was large enough to contain a thousand troops and mount many cannon. In shape the fort was an irregular tri-
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decagon. Behind the fort was a block house. The height of the fort above the Plaza was 229 feet.
On the east side of the main road entering the city from the south stand the ruins of the Garita, the only Spanish fortifications of which any remains now exist in New Mexico. It was built with two bastions and occupies a commanding position on a hill. Under the Mexican government it was used as a custom house station, and all wagons coming from the north were stopped here until the exceedingly high duties of those days were paid. On the west side of the Garita, close to the wall, the four leaders in the revolu- tion of 1837, Desiderio Montoya, Antonio Abad Montoya, General Chopon and Alcalde Esquibel, were executed by command of Gen- eral Armijo in January, 1837.
The oldest cemetery in the Southwest, except the graveyard im- mediately surrounding San Miguel Church, was very near the Gar- ita, and the high adobe wall surrounding it is still in quite good repair. On one side of it was a small mortuary chapel where funeral services were conducted. Many celebrated historical char- acters are buried here, but, unfortunately, no monumental stones distinguish their last resting places.
Guadalupe Church is situated just south of the river, at the western edge of the city, near the Santa Fe Railway depot. Owing to the modern appearance of a shingle roof and wooden steeple, it often escapes attention, but is really of much historic interest. The walls are very massive, and the carved supports of the vigas are the best specimens of their class in the Territory. Prior to 1883 the church was only opened once a year, on Guadalupe Day, Decem- ber 12, but in that year it was renovated, many windows cut in its walls, and it has since been used by the English-speaking Roman Catholics for regular services. The altar-piece is a large group of pictures about 14 feet high by 10 feet wide. The large central paint- ing is of the Virgin of Guadalupe, copied from the celebrated "Imagen" in Mexico, and it is surrounded by four scenes in the well known legend, representing the appearances of the Virgin to Juan Diego, and the visits of the latter to the Bishop; the whole surmounted by a representation of the Trinity. The church and sacristy contain many interesting paintings, the most curious and valuable being one painted on a plate of copper, 28 x 18 inches in size, by Sebastian Salcedo, in 1779. This also represents the Virgin of Guadalupe, a small portrait of Pope Benedict XIV being intro- duced. The statuette of the Virgin standing in the crescent of the new moon, is a beautiful specimen of antique wood carving.
The place of the assassination of Governor Perez is about two
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miles southwest of the Plaza on the Agua Fria Road. It is now very appropriately marked by a neat stone monument erected by the Daughters of the American Revolution in 1901. It was here that the Governor, in the Revolution of 1837, while retreating from the Capital, was killed by an arrow shot by a Pueblo Indian from Santo Domingo. His assailants then forced Santiago Prada, by threats of death, to cut off his head, which was carried to the in- surgent encampment, near the Rosario Chapel, and treated with great indignity.
The Plaza, in the center of the city, is of historic interest. Here Onate camped and set up the banner of Spain, and here General Kearny first floated the Stars and Stripes, in 1846, when he pro- claimed American government in New Mexico, a spot marked with an appropriate stone by the Daughters of the American Revolution. In this Plaza the Indians burned the archives and sacred vessels of the church during the Revolution of 1680; and here De Vargas entered in triumph twelve years later. The Territory has erected a handsome monument in the center of the Plaza in memory of the soldiers who fell on New Mexico soil in the various Indian wars, and the war of the Rebellion, and the Woman's Board of Trade has there placed a handsome bronze drinking fountain in memory of Archbishop Lamy, who was beloved by all. The Woman's Board of Trade has been in charge of the Plaza for the past five years, by direction of the city government, and to this organization of energetic ladies is due the present beauty of the place. A stone, suitably inscribed, marks the spot where General Kearny first floated the Stars and Stripes.
Rosario Chapel, in Rosario Cemetery, commemorates the victory of De Vargas over the Pueblo Indians in 1692, and is the terminus of the annual historic De Vargas procession, which, with the two annual Corpus Christi processions and the custom of celebrating Guadalupe Day, Christmas Eve and other holidays by the lighting of numerous bonfires, is an echo of "ye olden" days that gives Santa Fe a charm peculiarly its own.
Cemeteries.
The National Cemetery is a beautiful burial ground where re- pose the bodies of over a thousand soldiers who fell in the war of the Rebellion, the Indian wars, or died at Santa Fe and vicinity in more peaceful days. It is the only National Cemetery in New Mexico or Arizona since the abandonment recently of the ceme- tery at Fort Sumner and the reinterment at Santa Fe of the bodies in the National Cemetery. Other burial grounds at Santa Fe are
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San Miguel's Cemetery, the ancient cemetery surrounding Guada- lupe Church, the Odd Fellows' Cemetery and Fairview Cemetery, the two last named being under the care of the Woman's Board of Trade.
The Capitol.
The Capitol is a stately building of modern construction, and a view from its dome is one of the sights that no tourist should miss. It is surrounded by a fine park. In addition to the beau- tiful Hall of Representatives, the Council Chamber and the Su- preme Court Room, it contains the offices of the Governor, the Secretary, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the Treasurer, the Auditor, the Traveling Auditor, the Game Warden, the Supreme Court Clerk, the United States Judge of the First Judicial District, the Land Commissioner, the Insurance Com- missioner, the Territorial Law Library and rooms and offices for the various Territorial Boards and Commissions, and assistants or clerks of the Territorial officials enumerated. The Capitol was partly constructed with the aid of convict labor and material man- ufactured by convicts. Considering its size, its cost was less than that of any other Capitol in the United States.
Federal Building
The Federal building is a fine stone structure of classic design and is surrounded by oval grounds, partly in lawn. In front of the building is the Kit Carson monument, Kit Carson having made his headquarters at Santa Fe for many years. In this build- ing are the offices of the Register and Receiver of the Santa Fe Land District, with their clerks; the headquarters for the Special Agent of the United States Land Office for the Southwest, of the Internal Revenue Collector and his clerks for the Territories of New Mexico and Arizona, the United States Surveyor General for New Mexico and his large force of clerks, of the Supervisor of the Pecos and Jemez Forest Reserves, the United States Attorney for the Pueblo Indians, and from time to time of other officials of the United States.
Court House.
The Court House is a brick building of attractive design and is the headquarters for the First Judicial District, which, besides the County of Santa Fe, includes the Counties of Rio Arriba, Taos and San Juan; of the District Clerk, of the Probate Clerk, As- sessor, Treasurer, District Attorney, Board of County Commis-
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sioners, Surveyor and other county officials. On the second floor is the court room, also much used as an auditorium for entertain- ments of a public nature.
Educational and Other Institutions.
Saint Michael's College, conducted by the Christian Brothers, is the oldest college for boys west of the Missouri River and recently celebrated its semi-centennial. Its main building is a large struc- ture of French architecture. A modern brick building with class- rooms and gymnasium adjoins it. The athletic grounds are the best in the Southwest. The course is mainly commercial, and many of the leading men of New Mexico, Arizona and of the northern States of Mexico are proud to call Saint Michael's Col- lege their alma mater. The attendance is between 200 and 300 students, coming from all parts of the Southwest. The faculty is an especially capable one.
The Sisters of Loretto conduct the oldest school for young women west of the Missouri River and recently celebrated their semi-cen- tennial. The Academy is of unique design. The Chapel adjoining is one of the finest Gothic structures in the West. The large con- vent, a brick building of unostentatious design, adjoins the Chapel, while in the rear is a brick auditorium that will seat almost a thousand people. The grounds of the College are beautiful.
The Archbishop's residence is a brick structure which, together with the homes of the Bishop of the Diocese, the Vicar General and other priests, is contiguous to the Cathedral and borders on the famous "Bishop's Garden," with springs, lakelets and a fine orchard that offers sylvan retreats of rare beauty.
St. Vincent's Hospital, St. Vincent's Orphans' Home and St. Vincent's Sanitarium, all modern structures, are grouped together northeast of the Cathedral. The Sanitarium fronts on a beautiful park.
The United States Indian School is just south of the city limits and is a community in itself of about a dozen fine brick structures. It ranks with the Indian School at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and has an attendance of over 300 Indians, representing a score of Western tribes, the pupils ranging in age from six to twenty years; has a school farm and is surrounded by a beautiful park.
St. Catherine's Indian Industrial School is situated just west of the city's boundary line. It is attended by almost 200 pupils and is in charge of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament. A beau- tiful garden surrounds the school, which consists of several massive buildings.
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The Territorial Penitentiary is located just south of the city line and consists of a number of stone and brick buildings sur- rounded by a high wall. Large gardens are cultivated by the con- victs, who number almost 250. The institution is a model in many respects and is well worthy a visit.
The Territorial Deaf and Dumb Institute consists of two mod- ern brick buildings and can accommodate one hundred pupils. It is located in the southern part of the city.
The Presbyterian Mission School is beautifully located near the heart of the city and consists of a fine three-story brick build- ing and a brick annex in a well-kept garden. It is attended by about one hundred girls of Spanish-American birth, who come from all parts of the Territory. It is proposed to erect a similar school for boys in the same part of the city.
Public Library. .
The Woman's Board of Trade has just let a contract for the erection of a handsome Public Library building wherein its library will be situated. The structure will be built of brick and stone, commodious and of Moorish architecture. It will be erected on a lot donated to the Woman's Board of Trade by the Territory of New Mexico, just north of the "Old Palace" and fronting on Washington Avenue.
Hotel Facilities.
The hotel facilities of Santa Fe are good. The Palace Hotel is famed for its cuisine. It is three stories high and can aç- commodate 150 guests. The Claire Hotel is a modern brick struc- ture, steam heated, and can accommodate over 100 guests. The Normandie is a modern, low-priced hotel. The Coronado and others conduct rooming houses together with restaurants. In ad- dition to the accommodations offered by Sunmount Tent City, the Glorieta Sanitarium, Saint Vincent's Sanitarium and the Pine- croft Ranch, there are a number of private boarding houses in the city and ranches in the vicinity that take boarders.
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Newspapers.
Santa Fe has one daily newspaper, The Santa Fe Daily New Mexican, issued every evening, except Sunday. It has four weekly newspapers, The New Mexican Review, The Eagle, El Nuevo Mex- icano and El Boletin Popular.
The Daily New Mexican and the New Mexican Review are the oldest papers in what is now New Mexico, Arizona, Southern
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California, Western Texas and Colorado south of Denver. The Daily New Mexican was started in 1862.
Churches.
In addition to the three Catholic Churches enumerated, the Cathedral, Guadalupe Church and San Miguel Church, Santa Fe has five Protestant Churches. The First Presbyterian Church is a brick structure with a pipe organ and a brick parsonage. The congregation is self-sustaining. The Church of the Holy Faith is a stone edifice belonging to the Protestant Episcopal denomination. It has a pipe organ and a brick rectory. The St. John's Methodist Episcopal Church is a new brick structure in mission style. The Presbyterians and the Methodists each have churches for Spanish- speaking members.
Fraternal Organizations.
The Fraternal Associations are well represented in Santa Fe. The Masons own their temple, a two-story brick business block facing the Plaza. The Masonic bodies of the city are Montezuma Lodge No. 1, A. F. & A. Masons, the oldest Masonic Lodge west of the Missouri, excepting a Lodge at Salem, Oregon; Santa Fe Chap- ter No. 1, R. A. Masons; Santa Fe Commandery No. 1, Knights Templar, and Santa Fe Lodge of Perfection, No. 1, A. & A. S. R. In the Masonic Temple are interesting relics of the early days of the American occupation, and among its members were many of the early pioneers who blazed the way for the thousands who came after them. The Odd Fellows, who organized a Lodge at Santa Fe over fifty years ago, are represented by Santa Fe Lodge No. 2; the Knights of Pythias by Santa Fe Lodge No. 2, and the Fraternal Union by Santa Fe Lodge No. 259. Numerically, Santa Fe Lodge No. 460, B. P. O. Elks, is the strongest fraternal organization. It will build a $25,000 Opera House and Lodge Hall. The Order of United Workmen and other fraternal orders have Lodges in the city. There are several social organizations, including the Capital . City Club. There is a Board of Trade and a Woman's Board of Trade, the latter a unique organization that dispenses not only charity, but maintains the Plaza in the center of the city ; a Public Library, for which it is about to erect a fine building, and looks after other movements for civic improvement. The city has two brass bands, two orchestras, several Spanish and a number of church societies.
Banks.
The First National Bank is the oldest and best known bank in the Southwest. It was organized in 1870 and was the first bank
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in a great stretch of country. namely, western Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and southern California. Its capital stock is $150,000 and it has a handsome surplus and undivided profits. It is con- sidered one of the safest banks in the entire country. It is located in a handsome brick structure on San Francisco Street, the prin- cipal business thoroughfare of the city.
The United States Bank and Trust Company has just been or- ganized and will be ready for business by the first of July. It will work under the Territorial statutes, having a charter from the Territory. The capital stock is $50,000. It is believed that there is a good field for this new bank.
Building Associations and Business.
The city has a flourishing Building and Loan Association. All lines of business are fully represented, wholesale and retail. The stocks are large and everybody can be suited to such an extent as he wants in every line of trade. The stores are modern, carry large and well selected stocks and the merchants are enterprising and energetic.
Among the more pretentious business blocks are the Catron, Laughlin, Salmon, First National Bank, Masonic and Kahn.
Public Schools.
The Central High School Building is a modern, three-story building, just completed, and is the finest school house in New Mexico. The grounds surrounding it are extensive and will be beautified with ornamental trees and shrubs. The city has in addition four ward school buildings, one of which is about to be replaced with a modern brick structure. The graded public school system is modern in every respect.
A Home City.
Santa Fe has many beautiful homes and gardens and a number of modern brick residences have been recently constructed or are in the process of erection. In a city as old as the Capital City, naturally, there are many ancient and quaint buildings, but these are being gradually replaced with up-to-date business blocks and homes. Socially, Santa Fe, as the Capital, and owing to its an- tiquity, enjoys pre-eminence throughout the Southwest.
Orchards.
Santa Fe takes great pride in its orchards. There are scores of these within and around the city, and the fruit that is raised, as
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stated elsewhere, has no superior. Among the larger orchards in the city are Buena Vista, the orchards of Arthur Boyle, E. S. Andrews, J. P. Victory, the Manderfield and Quintana orchards, the Bishop's Garden, and many others.
Water and Light,
The Santa Fe Water and Light Company has two power houses for generating electric current, one with steam power plant of 150 horse-power, and the other a water-power plant. The company has four reservoirs, all deriving their water supply from the Santa Fe River, which has its source on the Lake Peak at an altitude of 12,400 feet. Above the reservoir that supplies Santa Fe with drink- ing water there is not a single residence or home, and almost the en- tire watershed is within the Pecos Forest Reserve. The supply is, therefore, absolutely uncontaminated. . The water is free from alkali or other deleterious mineral ingredients and has been de- clared by experts to be the purest and best drinking water fur- nished any city in the Southwest. Under the city flows an under- current, which, in many instances, is pumped for domestic and irrigation purposes by windmills.
The Denver & Rio Grande and the Santa Fe Central Railroads have a modern brick Union Depot at Santa Fe. The depot of the Santa Fe System is within one hundred yards of the Union Depot.
A start has been made in paving the sidewalks in the city limits, which, owing to the continual dry weather and hard-packed soil, is not so urgent a necessity as elsewhere, but now that a city ordi- nance provides for paving, several miles of sidewalks have been and are being constructed.
From climatic, scenic, health, historic and social standpoints, Santa Fe is undoubtedly the most desirable residence city in . the Rocky Mountains.
OTHER TOWNS. AND SETTLEMENTS.
Lamy is the junction point of the Santa Fe branch with the main line of the Santa Fe System. It has a roundhouse, a depot- hotel, a postoffice, store, a church and a public school. It has a sandstone quarry, charcoal and lime ovens. It is also the head- quarters of the Onderdonk Livestock Ranch, at present under lease.
Galisteo is a settlement of farmers and stockmen in the southern part of the county, with church, school house, postoffice and stores. It is on the Galisteo River and two and a half miles from Kennedy at the junction of the Santa Fe and the Santa Fe Central Railways. It is the headquarters for the Eaton Land Grant.
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Cowsprings is a settlement on Galisteo Creek, with postoffice and store.
Kennedy, at the junction of the Santa Fe and Santa Fe Central Railways, is a supply point for a large area, with a postoffice and store.
Golden is a mining camp on the northern slope of the San Pedro Mountains. It has a church, school house, postoffice and stores. Round about it are gold placer fields and gold mines with mills.
A few miles south of Golden is the mining camp of San Pedro, where the mines and works of the Santa Fe Gold and Copper Com- pany are located. It has a large smelter and in the vicinity are a number of important mining properties. A public school, church, postoffice and stores indicate that San Pedro is a trading center.
Madrid is an abandoned coal camp with several score of frame company houses, school house and church. It is the terminus of the Santa Fe branch line from Waldo.
Cerrillos is the principal settlement of southern Santa Fe County. It has a smelter, at present idle, stone quarries, a fine public school building, church, business houses, and in its vicinity are a number of mining properties.
Glorieta is on the Santa Fe System and is beautifully located on Glorieta Pass at an altitude of 7,600 feet. Near by a sanguinary battle was fought in the Civil war. Upon the site of the battlefield still stand the ruins of an old road-house of considerable importance in the days of the Santa Fe Trail. Here is also a well sunk by the government through the solid rock at an expense of $4,000. Near Glorieta are iron, copper and other mines and coal deposits. It was formerly an important shipping point for timber, and to- day is the most convenient point from which to reach the upper Pecos country and the Pecos Forest Reserve.
The other settlements of Santa Fe County are all north of the Santa Fe Railway line. Near Santa Fe are the agricultural set- tlements of Agua Fria, Cieneguilla, Cienega and Tesuque, all with orchards, churches, school houses and stores. Near Tesuque is the Indian pueblo of Tesuque, of much interest to tourists and anti- quarians. In the Tesuque Valley are the rural settlements of Cuya- mungue and Jacona.
Santa Cruz is the most important place of northern Santa Fe County. It has a quaint old church that antedates the mission churches of California, a flour mill, a public school house, a post- office and a number of stores, and is surrounded by some of the finest orchards and agricultural lands in Santa Fe County, deriv- ing their water supply both from the Rio Grande and the Santa
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Cruz Rivers. It is two miles from the Denver & Rio Grande Rail- road at Espanola.
Chimayo is another pretty settlement in the Santa Cruz Valley at the foot of the Cobra Negra Peak. It has beautiful orchards, a church, a school house. a postoffice and stores
Hobart is an agricultural settlement in the Rio Grande Valley and on the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. Here are the Round Top Mountain Fruit and Truck Farm and the Black Mesa, an Indian battleground of some fame. Here is also the head of the ditch built by the government to carry the waters of the Rio Grande to the Pueblo village of San Ildefonso. Hobart has a flour mill, a postoffice and a store.
San Ildefonso is the largest Indian pueblo in Santa Fe County and, although it is situated in the Pojoaque Valley near the con- fluence of the Pojoaque with the Rio Grande, yet its water for irri- gation purposes is, to a great extent, derived from the Rio Grande. San Ildefonso has an interesting mission church, a school, stores and a postoffice. Many nice fruit farms are situated in the vicinity. It is in the southern extremity of the fertile Espanola Valley.
Nambe and Pojoaque are small but pretty and quaint Pueblo Indian settlements, although the latter has been practically aban- doned by the Indians, most of whom have intermarried with sur- rounding settlers. Near Nambe are the most beautiful falls in the county, which are about to be utilized to furnish power for an electric plant to be erected by Santa Fe capital.
CONCLUSION.
It is not only what Santa Fe County has been or what it is, but what it promises to be in the future that should attract the atten- tion of home seekers and of capital. The superb climate in itself means eventually the establishment of many sanitaria for health seekers, the founding of summer resorts and the building of hotels and homes for people who seek an ideal summer and winter climate. Its large area of grazing lands must sooner or later bring cattle to cover its thousand hills, and sheep and goats by the hundred thousands to browse upon its mesas; its perennial water supply, which is increased largely at a certain season of the year, must lead to the building of irrigation systems that will make the county rich in farms and orchards, not to speak of the dry farm- ing possibilities; its undeveloped mineral wealth must in time make it one of the richest mining districts in the west, giving employment to thousands of miners, and last, but not least, its industrial possibilities are such as destine it to be a manufac-
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turing center. Its great beds of fuel that can be mined cheaply; its possibilities for the development of water power; its compara- tively dense population, which would furnish labor; its climate, so conducive to continued activity ; its nearness to the Oriental, Mex- ican and South American markets; its great supplies of raw ma- terial, such as wool, hides, lumber, mica, ores; its transportation facilities, which will be added to from year to year, should make Santa Fe County an industrial beehive with a population ten and twenty fold its present number. Woolen mills, beet sugar factories, canneries, brickyards, tanneries, smelters, furnaces, steel mills, pot- teries, glove, shoe and furniture factories are a few of the manu- facturing possibilities of this section, which is richly endowed by nature and evidently designed by Providence to be a center of in- dustrial activity.
New Mexico, and Santa Fe County especially, have within them the great natural resources which are bound to make them prom- inent in the industrial world, and the wise man, who invests his capital in such enterprises at present, before the grind of compe- tition is felt, ought to reap a rich reward.
For information concerning New Mexico in general and Santa Fe County in particular, address Max. Frost, Secretary, and the members of the Bureau of Immigration, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
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Officers and Members of the New Mexico Bureau of Immigration.
GRANVILLE PENDLETON, President
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W. B. BUNKER, Vice President.
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J. W. BIBLE, Treasurer
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ALFRED GRUNSFELD
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W. E. LINDSEY.
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MAX. FROST, Secretary Santa Fe
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