Semi-weekly herald., 1911-04-20
u. S. Government Turns
Over PrOpertyto State
OF Colorado
Meeting at Board Of Trade
Rooms Last Night Most
Enthusiastic One

| Governor Shafroth, meeting with
the state board of agriculture at its
biennial session, April 12, 1911, re-
quested it to take possession Of the
Fort Lewis school as soon as posi-
BILE; whereupon the board instructed
the executive committee, consisting OF
! President A. A. Edwards, Vice Presi-
dent j. L. Brush and Hon. E. NJ. Am
mons to take possession at once, and
to proceed with the necessary ar
mission of students this fall. Fol
lowing these instructions President
Edwards and Mr. Brush, accompanied
| by President Chas. A. Lory, Secre-
tary L. M. Taylor and Principal T. NJ.
Netherton came to Durango and pro-
ceeded to Fort Lewis, notifying Gus
todian w. II. Tritz that they had
come to take over the property in the
name of the state. Mr.. Tritz commu-
nicated with U. L. Clardy, superin-
tendent of the Indian school at Nav
ajo Springs, Colo, and learned that
he had received telegram from Sec
retary of the Interior Fisher instruct
ing him to formally turn over the
property to the representatives of the
state of Colorado.
Mr.. Tritz has been appointed Gus
tcdian for the state and will be in
charge of the Fort Lewis school prop
erty until relieved by his superior Off
GER. Arrangements have been made
for putting in some crops this sea-
sen. No agricultural demonstration
work will be attempted this summer,
as all the efforts of the board will
be directed towards preparing the
property for the reception of students.
Several men are under consideration
for the principal, but the appointment
has not been made.
In working out the course of study
OF the Fort Lewis school of agricul-
ture the board will have the services
of President Lory and the faculty of
the Colorado school of agriculture, a
secondary school of agriculture and
domestic science, maintained by the
board at the agricultural college at
Fort Collins. The executive commit
tee is not ready to announce how many
students it will be able to take care
Of at Fort Lewis next year. Full an
nouncements will be made through
the local press and by special circu-
lars as soon as definite plans are
worked out. Two days were spent in
inspecting the lands, buildings and
equipment of Fort Lewis. The COM
mittee is enthusiastic over the pos
sibilities of this new institution and
feels that it will be of inestimable
ssrvice to the people of this section
of the state and bespeaks for the
school the most cordial and loyal CO.
operation and support.
The above is the statement made by
the board and furnished US by the
same.
A full house met the gentlemen of
the board, at the meeting held at the
Board of Trade rooms last night. Mr..
Buchanan presided at the meeting and
it was very instructive and pleasant
one.
DR.. Lory, the president of the board,
outlined a plan for the making of the
new state agricultural school at Fort
Lewis, one of the best in all the west.
It is not the intention Of the board
to attempt to make this school Mor-
NAL, or a higher educational, school,
but to make it real training school
for those who will go back to the farm
and place in operation the more ad-
vanced methods of agriculture, a
training school which will fit boys and
girls for progressive and practical
farm life. This school will in no way
compete with the local high schools
but will afford a valuable and prac-
tical education in agriculture. a,
domestic arts. no immature doctors
and lawyers will leave it's portals bat
sturdy boys will go from the school
to the farm and good cooks will leave
the school prepared to bring joy to
the gastromical, as well as to the
sentimental, regions Of the lucky man
who gets her, she will probably not
know much about embroidering a
green rose on lavender background,
but she will know how to keep her
house clean and bake mess Of bis
cults which will give a hungry man
thrill of pleasure which will cause
his toes to tingle.
Governor Brush and President Ed
wards also addressed the meeting but
the new member, Charles Pearson,
! who was meeting with the board for