Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-06-07
HOW CITIES BECOME GREAT.

80 city worth white lust Grows
!; s. because of =; spirit m its citaenry that
viii not permit it to stanl still
Somebody boosts, then does more boosting and
continues to boost
Chicago's motto is II win" Nothing has
to Chicago that not wed by its citizens. 1t has
a Chamber of Commerce that is the job all the
time getting things for Chicago.
Any of dozen other towns-now mere dots
on the map-might have been Chicago
Chicago had the will and the vision the others
lacked both and are now little more than whistlins
posts.
You say Chicago Is strateglcally located? Not
as much so as Valparaiso.
Denver is the Queen of the Rockies, because far
seeing, energetic made it Denver and
is misplaced city. 1t is stub town. 1t is off of
the main highways between the Atlantic and the IA
cific 1t is remote from mines and mills Nothing
in Denver is scenically attractive.
Denver advertised its climate, which is not to be
mentioned in the same breath with the climate of
Albuquerque, and it now is big, prosperous city.
FL Paso is reaching close to the 100000 marn
because when it no larger than Albuquerque is
now, it was spending $4,000 year in advertising
its resources 1t boosted its climate. 1t became tie
great beneficiary of the Elephant Butte dam.
Had albuquerque then been alive to it's oppor-
tunties the dam would have been built where the
dams be built the storage of the waters
for irrigation of the middle Rio Grande valley.
Asheville n c., has population of $4,000 in
Guiding suburbs Not long ago it muddy
mountain town OF 200 Inhabitants
Robert NJ. Furman, then editor of the Asheve
Citizen, became imbued with the idea that Ashevile
could capitalize its altitude of $500 feet its climate
and its mountain scenery.
He organized the Ashville club, raised adYer-
Using fund, induced Bill Nye to come there and write
a series of articles for the New York World, induced
Christian Reed to write a novel THE Land of the
Sky" and induced the Southern Railroad company
to feature Asheve in its folders and other litera
ture.
He had the mountains and the waterfalls and the
pine forests and the wild flowers photographed and
he played up the sulphur and the hot springs for all
they were worth and some more.
George Vanderbilt who eventually died Of tu-
berculosis came there and bought $4,000 acres OF
land and built Biltmore, suburb of Ashevlle.
Furman then flooded the east and the south with
the knowledge that of the Vanderbs had
chosen Ashevle as the best climate in the world.
Despite the fact that Asheville has Al inches OF
precipitation, has fogs. is humid, and has temper
allure that reaches 100 every summer and falls be-
low every winter 1t is splendid city. with no
resources other than its climate and mountain
cry.
Asheville ha. no railroad shops not factories. no
ranscontinental railroad lines and not agriculture
worth mentioning.
1t has than score of millonaires amongst
its citizens
Thirty-three years ago Los Angeles was little
city of apparent resources. number of the bus
mess men met and gave Frank NJ. Wiggin
mission to make 1t the biggest residence city in the
west.
Los Angeles then in a desert. Albuquerque
has gallons where it had pints OF water 1t had no
port nearer than San Francisco. 1t had fogs and
heat and a lot of other disagreeable things.
Los Angeles now has roo 900 thousand people,
and is great commercial city well residence
city without equal the coast.
Los Angeles was built by boosting 1t had
population that pulled together Team work made
it grow. 1t annexed everything in sight. 1t brought
water 80 miles. Now it has great harbor and is
the center Of irrigated district that produces many
millions of dollars worth of foodstuffs where there
nothing but sand and cactus before
Phoenix few years ago, smaller than Al
buquerque. The Roosevelt dam and the irrigated
lands of the Salt river valley have given it popu-
lation more than twice that of Albuquerque and in
a climate where eggs be fried street car
track any day in the summer.
1t is up TO the people OF Albuquerque to deter
mine whether they will have big city. and wealth
whether they will continue to have little city
in setting of climate and scenery and history and
irrigation possibilities that should insure city of
900 people in less than ten years.