Show I 1 IOU ewa V agn R U N 4 J i f al 41 rl 4 Q 0 fir r 1 x I 1 4 J 4 lilt i MIM ig j ski 4 eastern high school an example of danvers Den vers fine educational buildings prepared by the national geographic society washington Washl D C service V T HEN you enter denver W A colorado you coat to the V V urban hub of nearly one fifth of the united states A state capital a great western city a gateway to the 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 states as well making it the financial commercial ano ana industrial center of a vast area no other city in the united states with a quarter million population is to far removed miles or more from all other big cities naturally the people of this great region urn to denver whether they are out for business or pleasure for a commercial fight or a recreational frolic its a habit of long standing the miners started it when they came every so often to the rough little town that hat was denver in the sixties to spend some of their gold for supplies and the rest in more or less riotous living later when great riches were made in gold and silver and cattle the he fortunate ort ones moved to denver and built the mansions and hotels and business blocks that started the solid structure of the city globe trotters adventurers and capitalists flocked to denver in m the seventies and eighties many dc younger sons of the british nobility and several britons with well known titles made the city their headquarters for extensive cattle operations and gave glittering parties at the old windsor hotel and the american house that have not faded from danvers Den vers memory before its irrigation emp empire ire i was even dreamed of and while its mineral kingdom was still undeveloped ve loped danvers Den vers location was of little value but denver despite surveys clung stubbornly to the belief that in some way the transcontinental railway when it came could be pushed through the west of the city when instead the lines of steel were extended through cheyenne a hundred miles to the north Denver ites put aside their disappointment and quickly raised the capital tc build a connecting line to the new highway with this rail contact with the eastern settlements established and with the steady growth of mining in the mountains denver drew to herself 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 on denver has been to make the city one of the count rys leading livestock markets never lost dream while the transcontinental railways went their busy ways north and south of denver the city never lost its dream of a line straight west trough the mountains greatest and most tireless ot of the dreamers was david H moffat who a six mile tunnel through the continental divide under james peak he not only dreamed but worked and spent I 1 his fortune on the project he did not live to see his plan realized but on july 7 1927 the M moffat off at tunnel was holed through now a standard gauge railway operates double tracks h it into middle park opening up a new mountain realm to denver you sense danvers Den vers most astonishing physical achievement achie ement only when you let your imagination i wander back seventy years it is hard to believe that barely threescore and ten years ago this great city with its hundreds of miles of streets lined now with fine towering shade trees was raw prairie not a tree was in sight a level plain covered with sparse grass dry and brown through most of the year As the outlander drives about denver he is struck by the beautiful lawns there are no exceptions whether he views the grass plot of a humble cottage or the park of a near palace the lawns are perfect the price of the beautieu lawns is much moisture at certain hours each day in the summer a virtual barrage ot of water i is laid down over the 1600 acres of lawns in the cites parks so frequent are these drench ings that in summer the watering hose is not removed night or day from the hydrants usa Us water lavishly knowing that this is a dry country and that water is precious you ask one of the official of the water board about the heavy use of water in the city and run into a surprising paradox it is very important that we use water lavishly today he tells you in order that our grandchildren shall have enough for their vital needs visiting water works experts think we are crazy when we make that statement but it is literally true this is an irrigation country municipalities as well as individuals must follow the laws worked out under irrigation conditions in getting then cheit water supplies once you got hold of a flow of water if you dont use it you forfeit it to some one who will we are looking forward to a city of half a million or more by 1950 why we want to keep every drop of danvers Den vers annual water supply busy and to increase the supply in all possible ways 0 one ne way in which denier dener plans to increase increase its water supply constitutes utes an engineering romance when the moffat tunnel was dug an eight foot square pilot tunnel was carried through the continental t tin divide beside the large railway bore denver leas d this small tunnel and plans to bring through the towering mountain range hundreds of millions of gallons of water that now flow into the pacific ocean in education danvers Den vers fame is great educators irom the two hemispheres have beaten a path to this faraway far away city at the base of the to study its scheme of teachers salaries its i ble efforts to keep the subject mat ter which it teaches abreast of all worthwhile developments and ev even en its school architecture A practical school another famous part of the denver educational system that draws educators from afar is its opportunity school from 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 barbering to bricklaying and from cooking to etching mo most st of colorados institutions of higher highe r education are natural naturally lycon concentrated cent rated in and near denver in the cl city ty is the university of denver founded when the community was little more than a village by colorados territorial governor john evans the same john evons evans who previously ouSs Y had founded northwestern unive illinois |