Gunnison news-champion., 1903-02-13
NORMAL school, RHORT.
Trustees os the Vesaeru Ssa0x N.-
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Below are printed the nam festarvs
Il the report.
To rHE e0s EKNoR ANp strE.sS-
rFNpENT 90 rt rtH ISsTKucTIoS s
THE STATE 90 ColeRsBo.
I The board uf trates- of the state
I Normal school at Gunn,-on bas the
honor to transmit herewith its hr~,
biennial report. and solicit- a careful
consideration ei the same.
In lie wisdom the Thirteenth Gen
eral Assembly passed the foregoing
-enfiment from the western slope for
a normal training school forits teach
ers and -eieCted 1iunui-on a. the place
/ ior IL establishment because of its
central locstion. healthiBl climate.
I pure water aud Freedom from excess
i've summer heat and ieleut storms
/ p0n the bin becoming law GOV
ernor Ormau sclectcd the following
a. board of trustees e. T.. Adams. n
I D. Lake Jr aud q " Gray The
hrst meetiHg was held Ia Gunnison on
THURSDAY July T.. 1901 MIR Adams
was elected president and Mr. Lake,
secretary The bin provided for
forty acre site 90 be- donated by citi-
zens uf Gunnison The question oi
looking over Nariously offered sites
for the locatiOn OF the school was dis
cussed and the decision was reached
that they should be visited in con
junction with committee OF citizens
After viewing them. il was decided.
/ by vote of the board that the siteop
an eminence adjoining Gunnison on
the northeast was the most suitable
1 In the tract there are about forty
three acres OF hand lying in the shaI.
of an l.. Five acres We're donated by
/ Dexter I Sapp, five acres by DR. Louis
Grasmuck. a strip 100 feet wide by 6:J0
long by G. T. Silis. ten acres OF par
j tally psid-for school land by Frank
/ L. Tanner and Joseph Heiner. The /
purchase price OF the remainder was
donated by the citizens of Gunnison
and Gunnison county In getting he
deeds from individuals 10 the State If |
! Colorado considerable time was con
sumed and il was not until the early |
spring OF 1902 that matters were in
shape for the commencement OF actual /
work
Upon request OF the Governor. the
4 deputy state engineer. John T. F'ield |
was directed by state engineer Me-
Cune, To visit Gunnison and survey |
the grounds, which was completed |
March % and 26. 1902, and the site
| duly recorded.
/ In the early part OF April members |
of the board. at their own expense, |
4 visited Denver, Greeley, Boulder and |
/ Fort Collins for the purpose OF exam |
lining other state Institutions a. to |
/ the methods pursued at those |
places relative to the laying out Of
/ the grounds.
At the invitation OF the board. The I
normal grounds were visited 10y W !
] +. Paddock, professor horticulture |
of the State Agricultural College. u no |
/ planned and diagramed the prinripal |
walks and driveways ON the site |
The plans submitted by him were APP /
proved and Henry G. Orth, landscape
gardener OF the same institution Vi !
sited Gunnison and directed the work. |
OF laying them out in symmetriCsl |
shape. The main driveways we're |
laid out twenty feet wide. on each side |
is four feet of grass, eighteen inches
Tor irrigating bitches, and then The
rows of trees. set twelve feet apart. |
Over two miles OF roadway were aid
out and plowed. one mile was graded |
and leveled About ] 500 feet OF this
latter was covered with a beautiful |
disintegrated red granite, which lies
in uniimitend quantities in the hills.
three miles south Of the city and may |
be had simply for the small price of
hauling
In the early spring a contract vas
bet for setting out $50 shade trees and
these, together with about lj0 large |
trees that were already on the site, |
gives US a fine start with 100 trees. |
of the young ones set out. less than 1
twenty have died and these viii be
replaced free OF charge by the con- |
tractor.
The grounds are enclosed with a |
Z four-strand barbed wire fence and ce- |
dar posts
Several acres OF the campus i'm 1
mediately fronting the proposed 10 /
cation OF the building were plOwed. /
Z leVeled and sowed to bluegrass iu the 1
arlX Surnuper A nice stand 81 x-IFunu