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Newspaper
Albuquerque Morning Journal
Location
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1908
Page
7
Santa Fe, the oldest U S city, modernizes with new jail and growing assessed values. Key figures include First National Bank officers led by Rufus J. Palen, John H. Vaughn, Levi A. Hughes, and Alfred H. Brodhead with directors Schumann and Spitz. Cartwright brothers H. Bo and A G Cartwright drive broad merchandise and warehouse operations fueling the city’s upbuilding.
Special correspondent recalls Santa Fe as the oldest white settlement city with a 300 year legacy. The piece highlights the adobe governor’s residence, San Miguel church, the Santa Fe trail, and the blend of Apache and Pueblo history with Anglo-Saxon progress.
The text describes Santyube as a high valley town in the teieruany mountains with gentle slopes and natural drainage. It highlights mild, sunny winters, a year round climate, and a prime location 86 miles north of Albuquerque with connections via the Santa Fe and Denver Rio Grande railroads.
In a bid to streamline movement, the capital coordinates closely with major travel arteries linking airports rail hubs and highways. Officials report improved coordination with transit agencies and freight operators to ease congestion and bolster regional connectivity.
Conservatively estimated population near 9000 with 1900 census 5400 showing growth. City hosts territorial government and federal offices creating a large official and transient population. A health and tourist hub, Santa Fe attracts visitors from many countries. The business district features solid stores and grand blocks, while residential streets near the Plaza display attractive homes and civic pride.
The public and private schools in Santa Fe form a proud system with the high school the largest and best equipped in the territory costing 35000 dollars. Superintendent J A Wood leads a strong staff, while private institutions like Loretto academy and St Michaels college educate hundreds. The Presbyterian Mission schools the Indian Industrial schools and St Vincent’s home also contribute to a robust educational landscape.
The city hosts Catholic and Protestant parishes led by archbishops and ministers focused on moral welfare. St Francis Cathedral and St Miguel Church anchor worship, while Episcopal and Presbyterian groups maintain their own churches. Masons Odd Fellows and other orders are active in local society.
Santa Fe shows strong public utilities with abundant clean water and robust electric power. The Santa Fe Water and Light Company operates a reservoir system holding 550 million gallons sourced from the San Isidro river and provides free vegetable and mineral confirmation. Colorado Telephoto Company runs a local and long distance service with a modern southwest plant under Moink Owen's leadership.
The article details the city council leadership with Mayor Y T B Catron and a board of sidermen including M Giarcia Pedro Quintana Geo Armija Celvo Loves J H Walker Vt Le Raca T Costille H Kaune L F Mans tenie as treasurer and A P Hill city official. It notes the city is divided into four wards and governed for the taxpayers' interests.
Postmaster Walters reports annual receipts from October 1906 to October 1907 totaling 14670.58 dollars. Santa Fe operates free delivery with three carriers in a well run office housed in the Governor's Palace where General Lew Wallace wrote much of Ben Hur during his territorial governorship.
Santa Fe with three railroads including the Denver and Rio Grande and the Santa Fe Central connected the capital to distant markets. The Santa Fe Central from Santa Fe to Torrance opened August 13 1905, funded by Hon HM Andrews New Mexico’s delegate to congress. The line boosted local growth with shops at Estancia and plans for a Morarity to Albuquerque extension.
Santa Fe hosts two first class banks the Piret National Bank led by Major Mufus Pa fen president of the New Mexico Tankers Association is the oldest in the territory established in 1870. The United States Bank and Trust Company is a young institution rapidly rising and gaining local confidence.
The New Mex ic an Printing Company led by John K K Stauffer publishes The New Meg can edited by Col Mays Frost. A J Loomis edits The Magic and El Roletin Popular, both weekly papers in Spanish, all contributing to Santa Fe’s progress.
The Capital City features top lodgings led by the Claire and the Palace, with the Claire costing $45,000 to build and famed as a modern, popular stop for visitors to Santa Fe. It sits opposite the Phasaio and serves as HQ for commercial travelers under proprietor Colonel Thomas Vr Gable.
J. H. Lacome and J. B. Lacome are noted hotel men who personally ensure guests are made to feel at home, overseeing service and hospitality.
The Santa Fe capitol, built in 1900 for 130000, rises three stories with a dome of sandstone and glazed brick. It houses the council chamber and house of representatives along with key territorial offices headed by Governor George Curry. Surrounding grounds feature walks, trees, and towers as officials listed include Nathan Jaffa and J. M. Hervey among others.
Santa Fe attracts visitors with mild winters and cool summers, an altitude of 7000 feet, dry air, and a temperate climate. The city offers scenic beauty, mountains with perpetual snow, lakes, forests, waterfalls, trout streams, and the Scenic Highway. Nearby Indian pueblos can be visited within a few hours’ ride.
The Banza Fe Territorial Penitentiary sprawls across about ten acres south of the city. The three story main building houses offices, the warden and chapel, with two wings for cell houses and a twenty three foot enclosing wall. A brick plant within the grounds yields 600 000 bricks monthly and about 30000 yearly, while inmate labor covers carpenter, paint, hoe, tailor, tin and blacksmith shops along with a bakery wash house and hospital. The facility has 282 convicts and 22 employees including 16 guards and 2 captains. Governance rests with five commissioners J F Sulzer Charles F Easley John I De Mier Thomas W Harward Price Walters. Captain John Wafireen recently assumed superintendent duties and has implemented reforms under Captain Greggs progressing management.
Santa Fe county with Santa Fe as seat covers 19840 sivere miles and 20,000 population. Leading industries are agriculture stock raising and mining with alfalfa cereals vegetables and fruits from agricultural valleys. The Woman's board of trade aids city growth and the fire department with three hose trucks and forty members led by Chief Frank Owen and fire marshal A M Det Hlebach. Santa Fe aims to be a health and tourist resort as Banta Fu city remains nearly debt free on a cash basis with low taxes.
The oldest banking institution in New Mexico asserts its continued stability and prominence in the state’s financial system, highlighting its long history and substantial assets.
The United States Bank and Trust Company of Santa Fe opened in June 1906 and quickly earned a reputation as a solid conservatively managed bank. It reports capital of 740000, deposits of 8584306, loans of 88000, with H S Read as president and C H Ingraham as vice president and cashier. The board includes N B Laughlin, R Ho Hanna, and Jo B Lamy. The bank offers general banking and trust services from modern quarters in the business center, with burglar proof and safety deposit facilities, and invites prompt correspondence and businesslike attention.
The Santa Fe Water and Light Co. reports 5000 invested to upgrade its facilities. A reservoir three miles east holds 550 million gallons from the Santa Fe river, delivering water via 24 miles of mains. The electric plant is described as modern with many patrons satisfied. Officers include Cop Street, president and treasurer, Edgar L. Street, vice president, and Frank Owen, manager.
H B Cartwright & Bro a leading Santa Fe and New Mexico wholesale firm in grain feed and flour is described as a well known local business. The text highlights HB Cartwright as a principal member of the firm with yearly large-volume transactions.
C W Dudrow stands among Santa Fe’s enterprising citizens after 30 years in the city. He runs a well equipped lumber yard with extensive stock of lumber, sash doors, blinds, mouldings, bricks, lime, cement and builders hardware. His transfer and warehouse business serves local and regional patrons with reliable service. He is praised for fair treatment and public spirited efforts aiding Santa Fe’s growth.
The Old Curio Store in this city offers the largest stock of genuine Indian seeds and curiosities. Proprietor J S Candelario is a leading wholesale and retail dealer of Indian and Mexican goods with Navajo blankets, Chicayo rugs, Mexican drawings, and gold and silver filigree jewelry. He runs a large mail order business and guarantees customer satisfaction.
C C Watson & Co is a top Santa Fe firm offering fire, accident, plate glass and stability insurance. Established 1882, they represent fifteen major companies and are district managers for Mutual Life of New York. Watson oversees agents for New Mexico and southern Colorado. The partnership includes Carl A Bishop. They handle city residence and business property, rents, and non resident property interests. They solicit correspondence and promise careful management of all entrusted matters.
Brown and Carithers are proprietors of the Treland pharmacy a premier drug store in New Mexico located opposite the Plaza. Frank O Brown and James R R Carithers are thorough pharmacists and progressive businessmen with a large customer base built on pure drugs courteous service and physician prescription filling. They operate a substantial mail order service and offer imported and domestic cigars.
Charles Closson Charlee Closson is the popular sheriff of Santa Fe county with seventeen years in the city. He runs a leading livery and transfer business with well equipped stables and prompt train meeting service. He is a public spirited, respected businessman known for patronage and hometown contribution.
A B Renehan prominent among Santa Fe bar leaders is a well known attorney and counsellor at law with ten years in practice. He specializes in mining and land law and commands respect of Santa Fe citizens and allies across New Mexico.
Leo Hersch operates a major Santa Fe wholesale firm dealing in flour hay grain salt potatoes and seeds. As exclusive agents for International Stock Foods the company maintains large stocks and swift order filling. From a small start the business grew into a leading local firm. Mr Hersch is a respected businessman and active citizen.
Capitol Coal Yard, the leading coal and wood business run by T. KB Nad ing near the Santa Fe railroad, stocks Cereblos and Monero lump coal, anthracite varieties, and sawed wood. Nad ing, a five year Santa Fe resident, is described as enterprising and public-spirited with a large local trade.
H S Kaune and Company, long established since 1866, operate dressers in staple and fancy groceries. The firm, rooted in fair dealing, shows large stock and reasonable prices. Members include H Kaune, active city council member and finance chair, and Captain Frederick Muller, a U S land Office receiver.
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