20 UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO STUDIES 



its first meeting at the Court House in Boulder. 1 William Gilpin was 

 selected as the temporary president of the board and T. J. Graham 

 its temporary secretary. 2 Permanent officials were immediately 

 elected: Granville Berkley, president, Thomas J. Graham, secretary, 

 and Edwin Scudder, treasurer. The question of a site for the univer- 

 sity was discussed but a settlement was postponed until a meeting to 

 be held in April. On April 4 the second meeting was held, and the 

 university located on land donated by Messrs. Berkley and Widner, 

 both members of the board. 3 This land lay to the east of the city of 

 Boulder and consisted of 15 acres donated by Mr. Berkley and 5 acres 

 donated by Mr. Widner. 4 A committee was appointed to see to the 

 surveying of the land, to obtain the conveyance of the gifts of land 

 and to "contract for and procure a good permanent fence around said 

 Ground of good posts and poles suitable to keep out stock of all kinds 

 permitted to run at large and to make such other and further improve- 

 ments thereon as they may think advisable." During the months of 

 April and May, 1870, under the direction of the committee, work was 

 begun on the improvement of the site. s It was surveyed, ploughed 

 and harrowed so as to prepare it for grass and trees; contracts were 

 let for planting trees and for fencing the plot; and then the work came 

 to an end. In all $178.50 was spent upon the improvements. The 

 trees were not planted, however, and the fence was not put up. Once 

 again the movement to establish a university in Boulder died down. 

 For almost two years little is heard of the university. There was 

 an act to establish a university, there was a board of trustees, there 

 was a site agreed upon and slightly improved; but the board of trus- 

 tees did not meet during the period April 4, 1870 — January, 1872, 

 the deeds to the land were not transferred and there was no money 



1 The recordsoi the meetings of the trustees are found in its minute book, hereafter to be referred to under 

 that title. This book is, at present, in the possession of G. A. Andrews of Boulder, with whom it was left by 

 Amos Widner. 



'Minute Book, pp. 3-5. Cf. Boulder News, February 1, 1870, March 29, 1870. There were preseDt 

 Messrs. Gilpin, Scudder, Sanford, Graham, J. M. Smith, Berkley and Widner. 



» Minute Book, pp. 6-7. Cf. Boulder News, April 5 and April 13, r87o. 



* The technical description of the site is, "on the south half of the northeast quarter of section thirty in 

 township no. one north, range seventy west." 



s Minute Book, pp. 14-21. 



