The Coolidge examiner., 1936-08-21

hours each day in the summer a
virtual barrage of water j. 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 a coiled serpent on sentry
duty, guarding its allotted plot. The
public hose is of 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 3urpris-
ing paradox.
1T is very important that we use
water lavishly today" he tells you,
''in order that our grandchildren
shall have enough for their vital
needs. Visiting water works ex-
perts think we are crazy when we
make that statement, but it is
literally true.
This is an irrigation country.
Municipalities, as well as indivi-
duals, must follow the laws worked
out under irrigation conditions in
getting their water supplies. Once
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
million or more by 1850. 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
Ions 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-
BILE 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
yer educational system tina: draws
educators from afar is its Oppor-
tunity school. From $50 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 barbering to bricklay-
ing, and from cooking to etching.
Most of Colorado's institutions of
higher education are naturally con-
centrated in and near Denver. In
the city is the University of Den
yer, founded, when the community
was little more than 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 noun
tains that cast their shadows on
the campus and beckon for week
end rambles that the University of
Colorado is as busy in summer as
in winter.
Fifteen miles west of Denver, at
Golden, is the Colorado school of
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 1926 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 or modern magic
to map rock strata lying hundreds
and thousands of feet beneath the
surface of the ground