Bisbee daily review., 1907-09-24
IS TALKING OF
 CONGRESS-
.si ss n.. .ap, n att New Mexico City Will De Able
 To Entertain IrngatloniStS Next Year In A Fitting and Proper Way.
(Albuquerque Journal.)

Vegas, through whose efforts Albu querque landed the sixteenth Nation | al Irrigation congress, arrived in Al buquerque yesterday and spent ths l day here on business. Colonel Twitch l ell is just as enthusiastic about ths | Irrigation congress now as he was tho day ha made tho zne-ach which car ried the convention. and he doesni hesitate to say so. He says it will be the biggest thing for Albuquerque ana | for the territory of New Mexico that l could happen, barring statehood. and | he believes the whole territory is go i ing to get together on one big adver Using and development and benefit | out of the congress that is to be had q do not have to tell you of the congress at Sacramento or our fight l to get it," said Colonel Twitchell. ] That has been told by several of the New Mexico men who helped get il --and let me say that the New Mexi 1 co delegates did hard and effective and brilliant work for this congress every one of them There are some
 of the inside workings that have n, been told. some of the opposition we
 had to meet that has not been de
 scribew. but that is al over and can l, well be forgotten
 There is just one thing now that is worth considering or talking about That is the making of this coming congress the biggest ..2G most affec-
 five cf them all in order that New
 Sey'co may reap the iGli benefit of
 bringing the congress to Albuquerque
 As to handling the delegates. al
 though I believe there will he fully
 sixteen hundred of them, Albuquer-
 ble. All that will be necessary will
 be for the private houses of Albuquer-
 que with spare rooms to open them
 to the visitors. then with q well or
 ganized information bureau and a list
 ing of the rooms available there will
 be no trouble at all in caring for all
 who come. As to feeding the multi
 tude, with the Alvarado hotel and the
 several first class restaurants and eat
 ing houses, there will be not the
 slightest trouble. AibuCuerque has
 better hotel facilities right today than
 Sacramento has and in spite of the enormous attendance there. the en-
 tertainment was smooth and easy.
 As to facilities for caring for the
 business of the congress. this city will have no trouble. If your Ar1nory- Convention hall plan is put through and it should be put through at once. the convention hall will be well set tied. With your Elks' building and your Commercial club all immediately adjacent to the proposed convention hall. you will have better committee room facilities than Sacramento dreamed Of having.
 q believe that the Albuquerque congress can be and will be made the greatest from aswOrking standpoint in the history of this great organiza- ten The exhibits from ether states know. will be large and the housing of them will be problem. althcueG I believe it can be solved without great expense. There remains from thc Sacramento congress some S1hC0O in trophies. silver vases. logIag cuas, medais dI tablets, which lIe soon to b. sCnt I. om Sacramento on J tOl of the east. These trophies, which make magnificent display, will first be shown at the Chicago Press club. Thence they will go to Detroit, Oma- lha, Cleveland, Buffalo. New York |, Boston, Philadelphia and back through the south, arriving in Albu- querque in August of next year In this way the congress will receive the most valuable advertising and in the country where it will be of greatest benefit to us.
 New Mexico. I know, is ready to I. 1.z-L->1a > q >f ]. !. l4I hands:: nnt AIhnnmernne alone. hnt every section and particularly every irrigated section. The congress will cost money. but it will not be as heavy an expense as many people seem tc anticipate. and there will be absolutely no trouble in realizing all funds necessary, for it is not the in- tention to go into any future congress on the scale which Sacramento did. It is realized that while the Sacra- mento congress was a great success, yet to carry it on on such a magnifi- cent scale would presently leave the congress possible only for great Cit ies. which would mean the end of it's as practical working or