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Newly Wed "Grocery butter is so unsatis factory. dear.” said Mrs. Newly wed, “I’ve decided today that we will make our own.” “Oh. did you,” said hex husband. "Yes; I bought a churn end or dered buttermilk to be brought luM '• THE SOU SPOT Br CLUYAS WILLIAMS tua mm*** or wt-ftc HTP RMtCRM-ttMt <M W»NM> \ MOW** WltRa-ltO IM * watcitoH or nnu6hi' MHCUU OM-ftCNfcU. MS HEAD CLOSE 1b pNlME If, OSfttto A SHADOW AND , CADSWS SR* 1b DISAPPEARS UK SOWN nSRFWiNlfcP, Sja.W' HERRU.V ' ' OKIPSS fO OPIUM rf CUM hanp Down L_ „ CMEM «C UCHf SfOflS WIW hbsot, SSu&» WRSUR rfWWftu: Wttl mno^HMC j»i«.. | ''a.'-"-. MMCF MOMOtf 15 90U. cites HM<P SOWN, AND ft ttMfttP WHIN IMtC #01 TOWS OH BMXOriWHP is-/ MlZ0E« M,PWYlM M WO ■foutnt cotWiMuB*ttas M HMD, WIllCT 0H1U WtrtHWBS WttCDHWHtl Denver Hub of Vast Area Eastern High, an Example of Denver’s Fine School Buildings. Prepared by National Oeorraphle Soelety. Washington, D. C.—WNO Service. WHEN you enter Denver, Qolorado, you come to the urban hub of nearly1 one flfth 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 rtttes ad well, making it the financial, commer cial, and industrial center of a vast area. No other city in the United States with a quarter-million popu lation is so far removed—500 miles or more —from all other big cities. Naturally, the people of this great region turn to Denver, whether they are out for business or pleasure, for a commercial fight or a recreational frolic. It’s a habit of long standing. The miners started it when they came every so often to the rough little town that was Denver in the sixties to spend some of their gold for sup plies and the rest in more or less riotous living. Later, when great riches were made in gold and silver and cattle, the fortunate ones moved to Den ver and built the mansio,is and hotels and business blocks that started the solid structure of the city. Globe-trotters, adventurers, and capitalists flocked to Denver in the seventies and eighties. Many “younger sons” of the British no bility and several Britons with well-known titles made the city their headquarters for extensive cattle operations, and gave 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 unde veloped, Denver's location was of little value; but young Denver, 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, instead, the lines of steel were ex tended through Cheyenne, a hun dred miles to the north, Denverites put aside their disappointment and quickly raised the capital to build a connecting line to the new 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 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 conver gence of Denver has been to make the city one of the country’s lead ing livestock markets. Never Lost Dream While the transcontinental rail ways went their busy ways north and south of Denver, the city never lost its dream it a line straight west through the mountains. Greatest and most tireless ri the dreamers was David H. Moffat, who visioned a six-mile tunnel through the Continental Divide un der James 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, the Moffat tun nel was holed through. Now a standard-gauge railway operates double tracks through it into Mid dle Park, opening up a new moun tain realm to Denver. You sense Denver's most aston ishing physical achievement only when you let your imagination wander back seventy years. It Is hard to believe that barely three score and ten years ago this gseat city, with its hundreds of miles o< streets, lined now with fine, tower ing shade trees, was raw prairie. Not a tree was In sight; only m level plain covered wtth sparse grass, dry and brown through most of the year. _ As the- outlander drives about Denver he is struck by the beauti ful lawns. There are no excep tions. Whether he views the grass plot of a humble cottage or the >ark of a near-palace, the lawns ire perfect « ' **» ■ The price of the moil turt. TT -ML-. hour* each day In the summer a virtual barrage of water i; laid down over the 1,600 acres of lawns in the city’s parks. So frequent are these drenchings that in sum mer the watering hose is not re moved night or day from the hy drants. Driving through the parks in late afternoon, you see orderly piles of hose, as regularly spaced as the trees of an orchard, each like Is coiled serpent on sentry duty, guarding its allotted plot The public hose is of a distinctive color Combination that prevents its being stolen. Use Water Lavishly Knowing that this is a dry coun 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 surpris ing paradox. “It is very important that we use water lavishly today,” he tells you, “in order that our grandchildren shall have enough tor their vital needs. Visiting water-works ex perts think we are crazy when we make that statement, but it is literally true. "This ia an irrigation country. Municipalities, as well as indivi duals, must follow the laws worked out under irrigation conditions in getting their water supplies. One* you get hold of a flow of wa ter. if you don’t use it you forfeit it to some one who will. We are looking forward to a city of half a million or more by 1050. 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 con stitutes and engineering romance. When the Moffat tunnel was dug, an eight-foot-square pilot tunnel was carried through the Con tinental Divide beside the large railway bore. Denver leased this small tunnel, and plans to bring through the towering mountain range hundreds of millions of gal lons of water that now flow into the Pacific ocean. In education Denver's fame is great Educators from the two hemispheres have beaten a path to this far-away city at the base of the Rockies to study its scheme of teachers' salaries, its indefatiga ble efforts to keep the subject-mat ’ ter which it teaches abreast of all worthwhile developments, and even its school architecture. The “Denver Plan” for teachers’ salaries has been adopted by many municipalities. A Practical School Another famous part of the Den ver educational system that draws educators from afar is its Oppor tunity school. From *1:30 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 harboring to bricklay ing, and from cooking to etching. Most at Colorado’s institution* of higher education arc naturally con centrated in and near Denver. In the city is the University of Den ver, founded, when the community was little more than a village, by Colorado’s territorial governor, John Evans, the same John Evans who previously had founded North western university, Illinois. . Thirty miles to the northwest, at Boulder, is the University of Colo rado. So attractive are the moun tains that cast their shadows ctj the campus and beckon for week end rambles that the University at Colorado is as busy in summer as in winter. Fifteen miles west of Denver, at Golden, is the Colorado school at mines. Growing up in the edge of an important mining region, the institution is one of the outstand ing mining schools of the country. In it in 1930 was established- the first course in geophysics in Ameri can colleges. Graduates of this latest course in mining lore fare forth with dynamite and radio sets, electro-magnets, torsion balances, and other devices at modem magic to map rock strata lying hundreds and thousand^ of feet beneath the surface of th. ground.
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