Show Til i c j c iEtI Eastern High an Example of Denver's Fine School Buildings Prepared by National Society Washington D. D C. C C. Service T THEN you enter Denver WHEN I I Colorado you come to the V V urban hub of nearly one- one filth fifth of the United States A state capital a great western city a gateway to the mountains mountains- all these Denver is and more Spokes of influence extend from it into the entire Rocky Mountain area and into large regions of the adjoining plains r. as well making it the financial commercial commercial commer commer- cial and industrial center of a vast area No other city in the United States with a quarter million population population pop lation is so far removed removed SOO miles miles' or more rom from from romall all other big cities Naturally the people of this great region turn to Denver whether they are out for tor business or or pleasure for a commercial fight or a recreational frolic Its It's a habit of long standing The miners started it when they came every so often to the ro rough gh little town that was Denver in the he sixties to spend some of their gold for tor supplies supplies sup sup- plies and the rest in more or less riotous living Later when great riches were made in gold and silver slIver and cattle the fortunate ones moved to Denver Denver Denver Den Den- ver and built the mansions and hotels and business blocks that started the solid soUd structure of the city trotters Globe adventurers and capitalists flocked to Denver in the seventies and eighties Many ManyI I younger sons of the British nobility nobility nobility no no- and several Britons with well well- well known known titles made the city their headquarters for extensive cattle operations and gave glittering glittering glitter glitter- ing parties at the old Windsor hotel and the American house that have not faded from Denver's memory Before its irrigation empire was even dreamed of and while its mineral kingdom was still undeveloped undeveloped undeveloped unde unde- Denver's location was of little value but young Denver despite despite despite de de- de- de spite surveys clung stubbornly to the belief that in some way the transcontinental railway when it came could be pushed through the mountains west of the city When Then instead the lines of steel were extended extended ex cx- tended through Cheyenne a hundred hundred hundred hun hun- dred miles t to the north put aside their disappointment and quickly raised the capital to build a connecting Hn line to the new high high- way With this rail contact with the eastern settlements established and with the steady growth of mining in the mountains Denver drew to herself hersel in a few years direct lines of railroad from the east Now these highways of steel radiate north and south and east from Denver like the ribs of a fan A result of this railway convergence convergence convergence conver conver- gence of Denver has been to make the city one of the country's leading leading leading lead lead- ing livestock markets Never Lost Dream While Thile the transcontinental railways railways rail rail- ways went vent their busy ways way north and south of Denver the city never lost its dream of if a line straight west through the mountains Greatest and most tireless c c Cl the dreamers was David H. H Moffat who a sixmile six tunnel through the Continental Divide Under under under un un- der J James mes Peak He not only dreamed but worked and spent his fortune on the project He did not live to see his plan realized but on July 7 1927 1027 the Moffat tunnel tunnel tun tun- tun- tun nd nel was holed through Now a standard gauge railway operates double tracks through it Into frito Middie Middle Middle Mid Mid- dle die Park opening up a new mountain mountain moun moun- tam tain realm to Denver You sense Denver's most astonishing astonishing astonishing aston aston- physical achievement only when you let your imagination wander back seventy years It is hard to believe that barely threescore threescore threescore three three- score and ten years ago this great city cHi with its hundreds of miles of streets lined now with fine towering tower ing shade trees was raw prairie Not a tree was in sight only a level plain covered with sparse grass dry and brown through most of of the year As the outlander drives about Denver he Is struck by the beautiful beautiful ful lawns There are no tiona Whether he views the grass grassplot grassplot grassplot plot of a humble cottage or the park puk of a palace near the lawns are nrc perfect The price of the beautiful lawns is much At certain hours each cach day in the summer a virtual barrage of water i- i laid I down over the 1600 acres of lawns in the city's parks So frequent are these that in summer summer summer sum sum- mer the watering hose is not removed removed removed re re- re- re moved night or day from the hy hy- Driving through the parks in la late tc afternoon you see orderly piles of hose as r regularly spaced as the trees of an orchard each like a c coiled serpent on sentry duty guarding its allotted plot The public hose Is of a distinctive color combination that prevents its being stolen I Use Water Lavishly I Knowing that this is a dry country country country coun coun- I try and that water is precious you ask one of the officials of the water board about the heavy use of water in the city and run into a surprising ing lag paradox It uIt is very important that we use water lavishly today he tells you in order that tha t our grandchildren shall have enough for tor their vital needs Visiting water works water works experts experts ex ex- think we are crazy when we make that hat statement but it is literally true This is an Irrigation country Municipalities as well as individuals individuals individuals duals must follow the laws worked out under irrigation conditions in getting their water supplies Once you get hold of a flow of water wa wa- vater va- va ter if you dont don't use it you forfeit it to some one who who will We are looking forward to a city cHy of half halt halfa a million or more by 1950 That's why we want to keep every drop of Denver's annual water supply busy and to increase the supply in all possible ways One way in which Denver plans to increase its water supply constitutes constitutes constitutes con con- and engineering romance When the Moffat tunnel was dug tunnel an square foot pilot was carried through the Continental Continental Con Con- mental Divide beside the large railway bore Denver leased this small mall tunnel and pla plans s to bring through the towering mountain range hundreds of millions of gallons gallons gal gal- lons of water that now flow into the Pacific ocean In education on Denver's fame is great Educators from the thc two hemispheres have beaten a path to this far-away far city at the base of the to study its scheme of teachers teachers' salaries its indefatigable ble efforts to keep the subject mat ter which it teaches abreast of all worthwhile developments and even its school architecture The Denver Plan PIan for teachers' teachers salaries has been adopted by many municipalities A Practical School Another famo famous s part of the Denver Den Denver ver educational system that draws educators from afar is 13 its Opportunity Opportunity Opportunity school From o'clock in the morning until 10 at night this practical school is open alike to young people and old In it elderly men and women denied the education they wished in youth receive high school instruction men displaced in one occupation may learn another and young men and women may be trained in practical arts from rom barbering to bricklaying ing and from rom cooking to etching Most of Colorados Colorado's institutions of ot higher education arc naturally concentrated concentrated concentrated con con- in and near near Denver In Inthe Inthe the thc city i it k the University of Denver Denver Den Den- ver vcr founded when the community was little more than a village by Colorados Colorado's territorial governor John Evans the same John Evans who previously had founded Northwestern Northwestern North North- western university Illinois rI Thirty miles to the northwest at B Boulder ulder is the University of ot Coio- Coio Cob Colo rado So attractive are arc the thc mountains moun moun- that cast their shadows on the campus and beckon for weekend weekend weekend week week- end rambles that th the University of ot Colorado is as busy in summer as asin asin asin in winter F Fifteen teen miles west of Denver at t Golden is the Colorado school of mines Growing up in the edge of an important mining region the institution is one of the thc outstanding ding d- d ing mining schools of the country In It in 1926 was established the first course in geophysics in American Ameri Amen can colleges Graduates of this latest course In mining lore fare forth with dynamite and radio sets magnets electro torsion balances and other devices l vices of modern magic to map rock strata lying hundreds and thousands of feet beneath the surface of the ground |