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THE CENTRAL RIO GRANDE VALLEY 



Convention Hall a I Albuqiiertiiie 



ing the city, occupying mod- 

 ern buildings and equipped 

 for thoroughly effective work. 

 It is a strong, well managed 

 institution rapidly taking its 

 place as one of the able higher 

 educational institutions of the 

 West. The city's public school 

 system is splendid. It occu- 

 pies five large two story, mod- 

 ern buildings, while a sixth 

 will be constructed within a 

 short time to meet the demands of the enrollment, now about 1,800. Fifty 

 teachers are employed at salaries ranging from $60 to $125 per month. 

 There are special instructors in art and music and a manual training 

 department is the next extension determined upon. Many farmers in the 

 Rio Grande valley place their children in the Albuquerque public schools 

 and it is possible for the pupil to go from the grammar school through 

 the full university course without leaving home and at practically 

 no expense. 



In addition to the public school system there are a number of fine 

 private schools including St. Vincent's academy for young women, the 

 Immaculate Conception school for boys and girls, a business college, the 

 Menaul Mission school, under direction of the Presbyterian church, the 

 Harwood home for girls and the Harwood school for boys, under direc- 

 tion of the Methodist Episcopal church, and a United States Indian 

 school representing an expenditure by the government of $250,000, and 

 one of the principal schools in the government 

 system. Brief as this sketch has been, it is 

 easy to recognize the value of Albuquerque as 

 a market, its substantial trade position and its 

 usefulness to the man who purposes to place 

 on the market the products of land in the 

 Central Rio Grande valley. The farmer has 

 immediately accessible a satisfactory consuming 

 and distributing market; a progressive, fully 

 equipped growing community 

 with whose future his own will 

 be quite safe. 



There are no important set- 

 tlements in Bernalillo county 

 outside of Albuquerque and its 

 suburbs. A few small villages 

 up and down the river and a 

 few settlements in the moun- 

 tains making up the list of 



post offices. Water Works Plant 



Telephone Exchange 



