University of Colorado - Coloradan Yearbook (Boulder, CO)

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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

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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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X ,.... ,W f4.,.,,,,,, THE FIRST STAGE . H. O. Dodge has preserved, as a souvenir, his 'Cpromise to pay, which was at two per cent. a month. The subscription list Was vigorously pushed by Clinton M. Tyler, captain in the Indian War of 1864. In 1860 he had come into the 'CPike' s Peak Coun- try with one team of horses and nine teams of oxen. He was one of the most stirring business men of the early day. iHis grandfather was a Vermonter. Captain Tyler saw the advantages of a university to the town and to his fam- ily. His daughter, Ella Tyler-Whiteley, received the iirst degree here given to a Woman. In 18811 he Was elected Regent. When there was a meeting of the Board, it was a satisfaction to see his big mule hitched under the University A p couwrv ROAD G.A.ANDR'EW5. I . or I Z 'Q' Q V: 0 oc of . -E I 4 Q' ls! cn li A-L 4 .5 -f be if 3 OO 5 E I! 05 u 4 E 5 4 D 9 ' avail. ,pri cottonvvoods. The professors who have survived from the l1l2lC1'llliY ol? the thirst President have cause for remembering the kindness, sympathy and i'1-iomqship of Captain Tyler, Who was an omcer of the Universitv in nnoasx' limos, Marinus G' Smith, BuCkl1lgh31T1Brotllcrs and .iXnthonx' .Xrncll hoznlvd the list. ' ' Mr. Anthony Arnett, a sturdy Alsatian. was born num' Strnslmrg. mining to the Lnitcd States in 1828. ln the 2ll0lllVOS of lho llmvm's1ix' are the lol.- lowing memoranda: 22