El Nuevo mexicano., 1917-09-13
UNIVERSITY TO HAVE
EQUIPMENT TO EQUAL
BEST N THE WEST
FURTHER IMPORTANT ADDITIONS
TO BIG PLANT AT ALBuQuER.
QUE TO BE MADE THIS YEAR

TO BIG PLANT AT ALBuouER
que TO BE MADE THIS YEAR
Albuquerque, N. NJ Sept. 10.--Fur
ther important additions to the PLAN
of the University Of New Mexico, to BIZ
carried out during the coming college
year, when added to buildings and i'm
provements completed during the past
summer, will place the institution on
an equal footing in physical equipment
with the best western universities. The
summer just past has witnessed com
pletion of the squaring out OF the uni
yersity's observation-disclosures campus.
This has been effected after several
years Of effort by exchanging Of lands
with various owners, the last transac.
ton having been with the Methodist
sanitarium, In which the university
acquired not only the northeast cor
ner for what is the largest university
campus in the country, but also a
comfortable building to be known as
Rose Cottage, named after the late
Scion Rose, a pioneer of New Mexico
and a ~benefactor of the university.
This building will provide comfortable
rooms for thirty or more students and
will be used as a dormitory.
The new chemistry building, the
last word in modern laboratory 0 n
struction, also has been completed
during the summer and is ready for
use when the university opens OF Oc-
tober LIST. This will be supplemented
during the coming year by the new
physics laboratory building, with
which will be combined for the pres
ent the equipment for the school of
engineering. Provision for these two
buildings vas made by the legislature
Of 1915, supplemented by a%ppropria-
lions in 1917 for their completion and
equipment. While still far from ade-
quateN for the growing enrolment,
these new buildings will materially
reduce congestion OF the past few
years and permit Of much more eff
fective work both for faculty and stu
dents.
Probably the most important i'm
provement effected during the past
year, however, is the completion in
July of a we'll which insures the uni
versity an adequate water supply not
only for its buildings. but for the irri-
cation of the entire campus. This
we'll, lifting from a depth of 200 feet,
with specially devised pumping equip
ment, is now delivering 500 gallons Of
water per minute at an average daily
operating cost Of SO for electric
power. This means a very large saw
ing in water cost during the year, and
what is far more important, gives the
university what it has never had be-
fore, an adequate water supply for all
purposes, including irrigation. The
new we'll will make possible the beau
tifying Of the entire campus with
trees, shubbery and lawns and work
to this end will be commenced as soon
a retaining wall has been built
along the south side of the campus.
where the grading of East Central ave.
nue. has made ~terracing necessary.
Hundreds Of visitors from All narts
of the state have visited the uniyer.
sity during the past few weeks, Incl
dental to visits to Camp Funston. adj
the campus. All have express
ed interest and surprise at The growth
Of the institution. the good condition
Of its buildings, and particularly at
the building up of the district sur-
rounding it. Men who had NOT visited
the university for five years and who
then found it necessary to walk a mile
sand up a barren. half-graded
hillside road. have been riding ont
in automobiles or on trolley cars
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