University of Colorado - Coloradan Yearbook (Boulder, CO)

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A A!-A Yi -4.7-4 H-,-YA 1-. ,...., V WE WANT THE UNIVERSITY sisting of one low, flat, mud-roofed log-cabin hotel kept by Captain Richard Sopris. In 1871 the people of Boulder graded and furnished ties for a line to Erie. This effort cost the little town 845,000 in subscriptions and 810,000 in bonds 3 but the Denver and Boulder Valley did not accomplish its part of the agreement till September 2, 187 3, three and a half months after the Colorado Central had reached Boulder. The Colorado Central received 8250,000 in county bonds. Three sites were proposed for the University. The one in the west part of the town, where Mapleton Avenue now is, was F. A. Squire's cow pasture, it was thought to be out of the way. The second site was offered by Amos Widner and Granville Berkley just south of Loi ers Hill Ninrteenth Street was the dividing line between the tvso estttcs ten acres cunt off fiom each This location was advocated because it is somewhmt shelteird in tht r ulx dat it was not thought possible for tall buildings to n ithst rnd tht lull xx up of the wind It was an objection that the second site lay putlx in tln bottomlind The third site is on the main road to Denver h rs ft ph ism ntx ol url and the donors gave so much that the trustees n eie xx ist in nrrptm t The present beautiful tract was piesentrd to the Ummm ltx in 18. January 8 George A Andrews fl natne of llflnnr ind lllnx X Xmluxx his wife dceded 2198 acres valued at 815180 60 O lln um du lllunms C Smith and his wife Annie M Smith dr clul 9' ll 1 1 mln l lt tFw0'l 0 January 10 Anthony Al110ttWllClAfll1y C Mmll ln will rllullll va ued at WG 60 The Main Bulldm xml ll l S rm Q on Z0

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l ' . A. Q . f ,, ' 6 c ' west was a clothing store taken down in 1902 3 beyond were the Boulder House and . the general store of Donnelly and Tarbor. Mr. A. J. Mackey, now president of the First National Bank, is our pioneer builder, he put up the first frame building in the county, the first brick residence, the first brick business block, the irst iron front, the Hrst plate glass. During the ten years-1861 to 1871- Boulder City hardly held its own. But the pioneers thought, as Mr. Mackey says, that the University would bring them a good class of people 3 so they kept Working and paying year after year. DAVID H. NICHOLS But the ten years brought -some social improvements. The Congregational Church, organized in a grove near Valmont July 11, 1864, began the erection of the first meeting-house in the fall of 1866, the iirst brick made in the County Were for this building, and were burned on the west side of Twelfth Street Where Ben Hagman's ice-house now is. Columbia Lodge No. 14, A. F. cb A. M., removed from the town of Columbia in the Ward mining district to Boul- JAMES P. MAXWELL derin October, 1868. Lodge No. 9, 1. C. O. F., was instituted July 10, 1869. Cthel' church buildings and fraternal organiza- tions belong to the next decade or to a later period. The first newspaper in Boulder, the Val-- Zey News, was issued April 3, 1867. It had been published previously at Valmont, but an offer of E835 induced C. C. Chamber- lain, the proprietor, to move up here in the night, leaving Boulder's little rival to the darkness of oblivion. This mite of a town was making desperate struggles for advancement. Denver had its first railway communi- cation June 22, 1870, by Way of Cheyenne, in 1871 the Denver and Bio Grande reached Colorado Springs, a city con- 19 . - I I

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X , I n ' i . CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH Smith tract, Woodbury and the Athletic Field are on the Andrews tract. The donors provided a street one hundred feet wide entirely around the Campus, and an avenue one hundred and fifty feet wide to approach the center from the north. In later years the local authorities unwisely narrowed Twelfth Street to eighty feet, and the railway cut oif the northeast corner. But in 187 2 an appropriation for the erection of the first building failed to pass the Territorial Legislature. In 1871 a bill granting 815,000 on condition that the citizens of Boul- der raise a like suni. May 18, 1875, at a ineeting of the Board, it was reported tha.t the requisite aniount had been raised to enable the Trustees to draw on the Treasurer for 2B15,000. There was placed to the credit of the University 5B30,000. The raising of the 815,000 was what actually fixed the University at Boulder. It was no easy task. The professional inen were young, the trades- men were just starting in business. Many gave their notes, cash being fur- nished by George G. Corning, who had started the first bank in May, 1871. Dr. A21