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THE CENTRAL RIO GRANDE VALLEY 



smaller manufacturing plants which swell the city's total annual payroll 

 from this source to surprising figures. There are four strong banks with 

 combined resources of six million dollars, thirty wholesale establishments, 

 many of them housed in handsome buildings and a strong retail com- 

 munity, with modern, attractive stores and markets. In a word, Albu- 

 querque is a vigorous , growing southwestern city, proud of its record, 

 certain of its future; a future that holds out so much of promise that 

 Albuquerque real estate climbs steadily higher, without inflation of 

 values, but with a steady advance based upon firmly established 

 conditions. 



The city has much of public spirit and civic pride. Its local govern- 

 ment is clean and economical, its police regulations good, its social 

 conditions excellent. There are forty miles of graded streets upon the 

 improvement of which thousands of dollars are now being expended, 

 while paving contracts are to be let at once for the retail business district. 

 Engineers are now drawing the plans for a complete new sewer system, 

 adequate for a city of 75,000 and capable of extension at will. There 

 are miles o! residence streets, lined with handsome homes, shaded by 



mighty trees that on many 

 streets form archways for block 

 after block, with twenty-five 

 miles of cement sidewalks. The 

 Albuquerque Commercial Club 

 occupies a $100,000 three story 

 brown stone club building, and 

 has a membership of 350. Plans 

 are now approved for a new 

 city hall. The government has 

 under construction a federal 

 building at a cost of $130,000. 

 iov the use of the post ofiice, 

 United States court for the sec- 

 ond district of New Mexico. 

 United States marshal for New- 

 Mexico and other federal offi- 

 cials who have headquarters in 

 the city. The Albuquerque 

 post office with receipts for the 

 fiscal year ending June 30, 

 1908, of $44,000 is now a first 

 class office, the receipts having 

 doubled since 1901 and show- 

 ing a 15 per cent increase over 

 the previous year. The citizens, 

 aided by an appropriation from 

 the territory have completed a 

 Albuquerque Homes $25,000 amiory and convention 



