Excerpt from Berger's Tourists Guide to New Mexico, Including Descriptions of Towns, Pueblos, Churches, Pictures, Statues, Ruins and Antiquities: Together With Mountains, Ca ons, Springs, and Other Places of Interest

The climate is considered the finest in the United States. The high altitude insures dryness and purity, and by travelling from place to place almost any desired temperature can be enjoyed. The elevations of some of the principal points are as follows: Santa F , 7 Old Fort Marcy, 7, 340; Costilla, 7 Tierra Amarilla, Glorieta, Taos, Las Vegas, Cimarron, Bernalillo, Albuquerque, Socorro, Las Silver City, Ft. Stanton, The mean temperature at the Government Station. At Santa F e, for several years, was as follows: 1874, degrees; 1875, 1876, 1877, 1878, 1879, 1880, which shows an extraordinary uniformity. For tubercular diseases the death rate in New Mexico isthe lowest in the country, the ratio being as follows: New England, 25; Minnesota, 14; Southern States, 6; and New Mexico, 3.

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