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would realize by completing the
building at once in the first place,
$2,3 wouit. be ;.av,d Dv abandoning
the plan CT putting or that temporary
roof and la er taking 1t OH. Further
more, we shall nave all the, tools, men.
and equipment on ;ho ground. ana
there wcu!d be great economy in
keepirg them there until tho job is
c npleteS, instead cf removing every
thirg orlv to return it again. proba-
bly, at a greater expense. and only to
cen truct a building. at still higher
costs for both material and labo.
Ru. rore important than all els,,
IN the ratter of present saving. is
tre excep iora'lv rrofitab'e sale that
the Committee has beer able TO nego-
tiate for the bonds. Tho bonds have
BEEN placed ter4ciivelv with the
State Board OF Land commissioners.
at what every business man will at
o-cs recognize as p, extremely good
figure Tho following quotation from
th>ir letter # acceptance shows
clea-lv the advantage ti-at it would
be to the county to negotiate these
rords row:
eta IF Colorado State Beard OF
Land Commissioners. Capitol Build
irr. d me-. Ar-il 9. 1890
Mr. T-uman w. Cra..
High S hc1l Committee,
Gunnison, Co'orrdo,
Dear Sir:
Referring to the contemplated issue
of not to exceed 100000 in nepoti.
able So bonds OF thu Gunniscn Coun,
tv High School District, am author
lied by the State Beard of Land Com
miss'orers to offer you rar and ac-
crued interest for the entire issue. the
morev to be advanced as needed by
the School District. The proceedings
authorizing the issue are to be ap-
proved by the Attorney General Of
the State of Colorado.
Yours truly.
]. F. VIVIAN, Register.
TIE pr posed bends are serial
bonds due and PAYABLE in twenty
-'earS: but redeemabie after ton years.
Should the people prefer, however.
the bends may be refunded at the end
# ten or twenty wears. without the
calling of p special election, and per-
mi ted to run longe- WITH the valu-
alton of the countv constantly in
crossing. the rate cf taxation for
r7eetirg in.erest. will constantly di-
m'nish. and it will become increasing
lv more easy to provide for the re-
der,ption OF the bonds.
SIlcu'u ine DCnu ISSUE curry. Lne IN
terest upon the entire bonded indebt-
ednass of the county would be about
fi'tv cents on cne thousand dollars
mswhat less than five dollars on ten
thousand dollars Men having chill.
dren of their own could not possibly
make a better investment for those
same children; and men having no
children, but enjoying the benefits
of citizens of this state and nation,
could not perform mora thoroughly
patriotic duty than to take upon
them selves tho responsibility of maxi
ing educational facilities of the best
tvpe available to the young people OF
this county.
We know more than we used to
know. We know that one-fourth OF
th' Young men drafted for service IN
the late war were illiterate. We also
cave disabled are obliged to be re-
eSu- ated before they are able to make
respectable living bv the use of
their brains. This simply means that
the average young man OF this coun-
try IS an unskilied laborer without
trade or profession or any sort Of
special skill. The whole country is
awakening to these facts and fs try
ing to save this generation OF boys
and girls from a similar fate to that
of the older brothers.
If Gunnison County will only give
its young people an adequate physical
plant, It will have the right kind Of
high school in q very short vine.
With adequate shops, adequate som-
mercial quarters, sufficient labora-
tories for commercial chemistry and
physics. a department of agriculture
and animal husbandrv, etc, tho school
can begin to train boys and girls In
an effective and practical way. Other
countys with less than half the wealth
of Gunnison are giving their Young
D >op'e the best modern type Of high
schools
. G-nni on County Is nearly as large
as the State of Connecticut, and yet
it does not own anv kind of high
school building. 1t has a big job on
its hands-hundreds of young men
and young women of high school age,
and no special educational induce
ments to offer them. 1t is impossible
for these Young people to get into
colleges. technical schools. or profes-
sional schools without first going
through high school. and vet, as a
count, Gunnison has failed to pro-
vide anv fit school. The chief inter-
ests of Gunnison County Young men
are agricultural, mining and CONNER
cia!; and to make much OF these
things a thoroughly modern and COM
pletelv equipped high school is alb
solutely necessary. .
Have we any right rs a civilized
and patriotic people to put this thing
off and keep putting 1t off when every
dar the chance Of education OF the
right kind fails and keeps failing to
come to some boy or girl Of ours or
our neighbors?
Respectfully.
The Gunnison County High School
COMMITTEES.