Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1922-09-24
ALBUQUERQUE IS
HIGHLY PRAISED
BY Ne VI ARRIVAL
{. F. Hulick Claims the City
Has Greater Prosperity
Than Any Other Place in
the United States.

The following article written by
f. Il. Hulick, who came to Albu-
querque not long ago from Chart
ton, Iowa, appeared in a recent is
sue of the Charlton Leader:
Editor Charlton Leader:
Il always welcome The Leader,
and the Iowa Magazine section is
great. 1t would be a credit to a city
of a hundred thousand.
But | want to use your columns
to tell something of my new home
Albuquerque, New Mexico. A lot
more people know something OF
Albuquerque now than they knew
of it three months ago. The Cham
Der of Commerce is live organiza-
ton with about twelve hundred
members. 1t has been showing the
city to thousands of people who
stop here on their way to or from
the Pacific coast. The manager
goes on the theory that the best
way to advertise Albuquerque is to
show the city itself.
1.-THE work of showing the city
began when special train oil real
estate men came through enroute
to their national convention in san
Francisco in the last days of May.
The Chamber of Commerce ar
ranged with the railroads to have
the train stop two hours in this city
The delegates, numbering more
than two hundred, were driven
about the town and through the IT.
rigated lands of the adjacent valley
'They were shown the SIX great
sanitariums where tubercular pa
tients from all parts OF the Uhlteu
States come for treatment. Also
they saw the huge shops that are
being built here by the Santa Fe
road: the mines story bank building
that was then just starting Sky
ward. the Alvarado hotel that is
doubling it's guest capacity, the new
hotel that is being built at cost
of S350,000 by community subscrlp-
tions, a half dozen apartment pulld-
ings under construction, and nun
dreds of private residences gong
up.
Albuquerque is spending about
S4,OOO,0OO in buildings, exclusive OF
the s1,5O0,O00 being expended by
the Santa Fe road this year on its
shop improvements and of the en-
penditures on the new saWmlil
which is being erected just north Oh
the city where the payroll, Wheh
the mill is completed, will be $9o'-
900 a month. 1t will be a duplicate
of the mill now in operation IN the
city.
New Mexico is the first in white
pine lumber and third in yellow
pine. and Albuquerque is the center
of this timber industry, and is op-
Grating Il big box and furniture rae
tory. for the products of which
markets are found as far east as
Cleveland, Ohio, and as far west as
Los Angeles.
Then the real estate men were
shown the New Mexico state UNI
versity. which is sustained by IN
come from 100000 acres, OF endoW-
ment lands and from appropria-
lions by the legislature and from
tuition and fees paid by q large
number of students that come mere
from other states. The archltectuie
of the State University is unique IN
tho fact that it perpetuates ths
Pueblo Indian architecture Whlch
was found here when the Spanlards
came eighty years before the Phi
grims landed at Plymouth ROCK
Also the realtors were SHOWN tiie
Snonish town which is n suburb
with more than 1000 population
There they saw the architecture,
the Spanish speaking people, anu
Tho costumes and the customs OF
snoin of the sixteenth century.
.The visitors were delighted. IL
yas like n trip abroad. The climate
also entranced them, because IL ~
never hot or cold here. Comtortaple
sIeeping always requires at LEAST
one blanket. The days are some
times warm: but the nights are al
wavs cooh The altitude here is d
nile above sea level and the air is
DRYER than anywhere else IN lhe
United States.
"Following the realtors, came
special trains bearing, in two days
more than three thousand Rota-
rians enroute to Los Angeles. They
were shown over the city. :,
Before the Rotarians were all
out of the city, the special trains
hearing thousands OF Shriners came,
and they were shown over the city.
on the biggest of the days MOVING
pictures were made and about gov
automobiles were active all gay
hauling the knights about the city
Next came specials loaded with
osteopaths, dentists, bankers, etc
going to or from conventions. Up
To this time more than $4,000 visit
ors have been shown about the city
through the efforts of the CHAMBER
of Commerce in three months. -,
as it any wonder that in TINS NJ
tie city of $4,000 population, lnclud-
ing suburbs, there should be greater
prosperity than anywhere else III
the United states at this time?
"Of course, Iowa beats the world |
for agriculture, and 1t leads IN
sturdy people of northern European
stock. New Mexico is much Ike
ancient Judea or Egypt. The plains
mesas they are called here-are Tor
grazing of herds of cattle and flocNs
of sheep. The irrigated valleys are
extremely fertile, and another great
irrigation project is under way IN
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