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Title: Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior for the year ended June 30, 1897
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: United States Department of the Interior
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by Sal-cido in 1779 on copper, and many other paintings and wood carvings. Monument to Kit Carson in front of the Federal building. The Eosario chapel, erected on the spot where De Vargas made hisvow before the surrender of the city in 1692. The most interesting of all the old buildings is, without doubt, thegovernors palace, an adobe structure, built in 1598, and continuouslyoccupied by the Spanish, Mexican, and American governors for threehundred years. The men who have lived and conducted the affairs ofstate in the old pile included some of the foremost names of the land,not only of the Territory but of the Eastern States. To quote from the words of ex-Governor Prince, author of the mostauthentic and complete history of New Mexico extant: Without disparaging the importance of any of the cherished historical localitiesof the East it may be truthfully said that this ancient palace surpasses in historicinterest and value any other place or object in the United States. It antedates the
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TERRITORY OF NEW MEXICO. 507 settlement of Jamestown by nine years, and that of Plymouth by twenty-two, andhas stood during the two hundred and ninety-nine years since its erection not as acold rock or monument, with no claim upon the interest of humanity except thehare fact of its continued existence, hut as the living center of everything of historicimportance in the Southwest. Through all that long period, whether under Spanish,Pueblo, Mexican, or American control, it has been the seat of power and authority.Whether the ruler was called viceroy, captain-general, political chief, departmentcommander, or governor, and whether he presided over a kingdom, a province, adepartment, or a Territory, this has been his official residence. From here Ofiate darted, in 1599, on his adventurous expedition to the easternplains; here, seven years later, 800 Indians came, from far off Quivirato, to ask aid intheir war with the Axtaos; from here, in 1618, Viucente de Salivar set forth to theMoqui co

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