Daily camera., 1900-01-15
,THE>PueL'c LIBRARY.

Reason Advanced Why Boulder Should
Have One and Yet Has 1t Not.
v The public library committee have is
sued the following address to be used in
securing funds for such an institution iu
Boulder:
Your committee to whom was assigned
the duty of presenting paper devoted
to the expressing of reasons why Boul-
der should have public library adequate
to ti'e needs of a growing city, present
the following statement of facts:
There has been no census OF Boulder
for several years, but there is data at
hand to convince your committee that
Boulder has by conservative estimate a
population of 5000 souls.
Boulder is growing city. Her popu.
lation has doubled within the past FIVE
years. She is city of homes, large
percentage of her population owning
their own homes. She has a purely
American population. There are no
quarters within her limits where the Eng.
lish language is not spoken. But three
policemen patrol the city and these are
amply adequate for the preservation of
the peace. No capital crime has teen
committed in Boulder for many years
No lawless element makes the city its
rendezvous or headquarters. Boulder's
moral and physical health rate higher and
her death rate lower than any cit, OF the
first or second class in Colorado. The
ascertainment OF this fact led to the
choice of Boulder as the location of the
Colorado sanitarlum, branch of the
great Battle Creek sanitarium, which an
nually brings here hundreds ofthe afflict
ed of all nations. So widespread has be-
come knowledge of Boulder's merits in
this regard that hundreds Of people are
here at all times filling her boarding
houses and private residences. The
reasons for her fast growing fame in this
regard are found in the facts that she
stands 5, $50 feet above the sea level. lies
snugly against the'foot hills. the advance
sentinels of the great snowy range, twenty
FIVE miles away. is protected from the
winds by these hills, derives her water
supply fresh from the nearby banks of
perpetual snow, has no factories or
smelters teeming with filth or noxious
smoke or gases, and has perfect sys.
TEN of sewage equal to the best of any
modern metropolis. Well to,do tourists
seeking pleasure flock to Boulder as do
the health seekers. Her scenery is grand
and varied, her Boulder canyon, whose
mouth lies within the limits of the city
and whose wondrous heights and depths,
cataracts and roadways shaded by pro.
jecting boulders and perfect spruce trees,
affords delightful retreat and sport for
the fisherman.
Many families reside in Boulder by
reason OF its superior educational facili-
ties, for here is the seat Of the University
Of Colorado, the head OF the school sys-
tenn of the state. With its preparatory
school. the university has an attendance
OF 300 students and the institution ranks
as one of the foremost in America. Her
public school system has achieved for
the city high reputation, the city en-.
ploying forty teachers in school build
ings, six in number, which have cost the
tax payers $4,000,
Boulder lies within twenty-nine miles
of Denver by rail and it seems that her
eligibility of location, superior climate
and natural beauty. coupled with her
superb educational facilities, have
marked her destiny in the near future to
be the suburban home Of large element