Arizona republican., 1908-07-28
A IRRITABLE
 WORLDS FAIR
Magnitude of Interstate
 Exposition
Secretary Twitchell Tells OfIrT'igatiOn Congress and ArizOna's Opportunities.

Probably not one man in a thousand in Arizona, has any adequate concep- ton of the magnitude of the plans for the Sixteenth session of the Irrigation congress and inter state industrial exposition. to be held in Albuquerque September 29th and the week or two following. It will eclipse any former meeting of the congress and in many respects will excel the worlds fairs, while for the southwest particularly the benefits both direct and indirect will be vastly greater than those that have followed any exposition, any where This may all seem strange to the reader who has not been brought in touch with the men who are con ducting this magnificent enterprise, the reader who naturally doubts that such a big undertaking could be sue cessfully handled in a city no larger than Albuquerque But all these doubts are removed when one meets and talks with those who are in charge.
 In the first place the show Is not being given merely by Albuquerque, but by all New Mexico, at AIbuquer- que. The entire territory is coOperat- ing with a will. Then too the man agement has the material as well as moral support of the United States government and the Santa Fe railroad company will contribute to the display to the extent of approximately $20,000. constructing one building at its own expense, merely to house the exhibits of tbo irri-ation diStrictS trih,,tarv to its lines, having a special commission CT in the field from now on until the exposition. and having the cooperation of all the Santa Fe organization. Then there is the congress itself with all its resources, and the cooperation of many foreign governments which will be represented.
 The inquiry is How can Albuquer- que care for so many people as will be necessary in so large an eXposi- tion2" The answer is that it has all been provided for. The city will be crowded. Its public houses will do their part the best they can. There will be in addition a large tent city. like thousands dwell in at the beach resorts. and better than all, thousands
 
 which will be there homes during their stay. Arrangements have been made to park at least 200 Pullman cars in a locality that has been set apart for that purpose, and will be fully equip ped with all sanitary conveniences of a temporary city. Probably no similar project of such magnitude has ever been undertaken, but the Albuquerque people propose to make it d success and that is all there is to it.
 VALLEY EXHIBITS.
 These facts and many more were brought out yesterday afternoon at meeting of the Phoenix board of trade ent a majority of the board of direc- tors and quite a number of citizens who had been hastily got together, to meet R. E. Twitchell, secretary of the board of control of the irrigation con gress and R. E. Wilson travelling agent of the Industrial department of the Santa Fe, both of whom are devoting their entire time and enthusiastic eff forts to this work. They arrived here yesterday morning and it is to be re gretted that representatives of the Tempe board of trade and Mesa Chamber of Commerce were not pres ent also. But the meeting was not for or even decided upon un- til 12:3O yesterday afternoon and there was no opportunity to notify the south siders.