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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.
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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.