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hall with seating capacity for 4,000, built especially to accommodate the 

 Sixteenth National Irrigation Congress, September 29, 1908, but so 

 constructed as to stand as a permanent convention hall for years to come. 

 The city has a handsome three story public library building, a fine park 

 system, now being extended and improved, a $75,000 theater. Masonic 

 temple. Woman's club, while all of the larger fraternal societies are 

 housed in commodious lodge rooms or halls. There are fine hotels, in- 

 cluding the picturesque Alvarado, built by the Santa Fe railroad for 

 Harvey management, at a cost of $200,000. The city has a well equipped 

 fire department, with two stations and a force of fifteen firemen and the 

 public utilities, water, gas, electric light and power and trolley car sys- 

 tem are thoroughly adequate. The city has long distance telephone con- 

 nection with the entire Southwest and the local exchange is housed in a 

 $40,000 modern exchange building. There are ten passenger trains 

 daily, north, east, south and west, over the Santa Fe's several lines while 

 a second railroad is under construction. 



Albuquerque is well fitted for the care of the constantly increasing 

 army of invalids and sufferers from consumption who now find their way 



to new Mexico each year, 

 the coast lines and St. Joseph's 

 sanitarium, a fine institution 

 built at a cost of $100,000, are 

 the larger hospitals now in 

 operation, while the great 

 southwestern sanitarium for 

 tuberculosis, being built by the 

 Presbyterian church has been 

 located at Albuquerque and is 

 under construction. There are 

 several well equipped private 

 sanitaria and health resorts. 



The city has fifteen churches 

 and a Jewish congregation, oc- 

 their own buildin 

 of them bein 



The Santa Fe's 



general 



hospital for 



crc 



new 



cupymg 

 several 



buildings of attractive architec- 

 ture, while the Immaculate 

 Conception Catholic parish has 

 completed plans, with funds 

 available, for a handsome new 

 church. 



The city is justly proud of 

 its educational facilities. The 

 University of New Mexico, 

 supported by the territory, 

 occupies a magnificent site on 

 the edge of the mesa overlook- 



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