Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-01-09

IbtFtily VI Iitl hichuS ioA Wis u9ciui
The students throughout the ses-
sion take part in all the farm opera
tinns.
The head OF this department, Pro
fessor G.. e.. Georgeson. submits the fol-
lowing estimate for Improvements:
! TO fence the college laud.................,s2S 20
For fine stock OF cattle and sheep.--...... 300
/ For stables and yards for the stock: l,Ns
] For proper too-house and implement
shed. quarters for hired men and farm
yo1 small green house and 30
I To salary for er-annualiy. 90
/ se,sO
MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT.
The matricuiates in this department
number 100, of whom us are pay and
forty-four state students. The outfit,
and in consequence, the results are
much more satisfactory than
in the agricultural department.
For practical work two-story
framed building Ska has been
turned into shops. On the
ground floor the shop equipment con-
sists of nine sets students woodwork
ing tools-fret-saw, jig-saw, iron table
circular-saw large wood lathe and two
small ones. On the metal side of the
shop, eight sets of wise tools, Pentice
serew-cutting speed lathe, engine lathe,
mounted grind-stone, fifty feet shaft
ing, twelve horsepower engine with
reversing link and indicator attach
ments; tool room, In which are kept n
complete set of woodworking tools
and supplies, and special tools for
metal working, as taps, drills, dies,
reamers and small shop supplies. A
smith shop for dressing tools has been
added entirely by the students. The
second floor of the building IL one
large room, fitted up with forty
eight elementary ssts of car
penters' tools and benches
for the instruction Of the entrance
class in carpentry and jointry, before
| they are admitted to the machinery
| department. All students in the
/ higher classes are rendered familiar
| with the construction and use Of the
steam engine, which is now run and
| managed continually by them alone.
Draughtng and designing are required
/ throughout the course. Besides d
great variety of practical exercise In
carpentry and ioinery, the making Of
models OF engineering and mechanical
! structures, the student do all the re-
/ the college, which are of simple
character, and not too extensive
/ make their own drawing boards, rules,
I bookcases, hat-racks, and other arti-
/ cles of room outfit.
This department is very popular,
/ and constantly excites the interest of
/ those engaged in it. The machinery
could be increased with great profit.
as we have never been supplied with
some OF the most important element
airy machinery.
/ LABORATORY or PHYSICS AND CHEM
/ IsTRY.
( so intimately connected with agri-
| culture, the mechanic arts, and their
/ related industries, are the branches of
/ chemistry and physics, that ali proper
( efforts are made To give them promi-
1 hence in the course of instruction of
all the leading industrial and scientific
] schools OF technology. The two sub
/ ject5 constitute one department here
\ though each in itself wide enough
Held OF labor and research for any
j scientist or professor), under the
charge OF Prof. II. III. Dinwiddie who
thus speaks Of its wants.
:" n chemist and even an intelligent
! citizen without chemical knowledge
can see around us immense possibil-
tiles for material development now
/ wholly neglected.
Were this the proper place I could
specify dormant resources now yield-
inS nothing to our state which might
easily he made by competent chemists
oproduce millions of dollars annually.
shall our Texas youth be fitted to
gather this wealth, or shall they be
mere laborers with the hands for
strangers who must erelong be at
tracted by that which cannot be an
| parent To our owA young men if they
be denied the training necessary to
enable them to profit by their oppor-
! tunitles
Our laboratories now own about
! 5000 worth OF useful apparatus. We
nave no room at all suitable for stu
I dents work, without which chemical
study amounts to little. The small
/ room III which as many as ten students
have worked at qualitative analysis at
! one Time has no ventilation, no water
taps, no gas, no sinks, no desks and no
closets for each student. fla building
oe furnished 1t can be properly fitted
/ for the thorough instruction Of thirty
I - A'4ty otN'iSlitS tpibHdolN us many rs
we need 10 provide for for between
/ $4,000 or Sc 900. For larger number
the additional cost would be from $50
| Ia SO per student Ii buildings now
! here could be altered and adapted. the
cost ON that account would probably
I not exceed 5! 900. If a special build.
ing be erected which Should by all
means be done the cost should not be
less than $4,000, Water might be san
( piled from large cisterns, and head
+ given for the use of aspirators etc, hv
raising II with small steam pump. /
estimate the total amount needed by
( our laboratories, including building
~ $4,000; exclusive OF building az
s. 900.
The laboratory buildings of the
/ University of Virginia. among The
cheapest and best in tho United states
I east, approximately, $l3,500. the an.
/ partus and collections about Sl7.nu0.
may add that the above figures are
reliable since they are based upon es-
I Inmates kindly given me hg tie emf
hent chemist, DIR. j. w Alallet.r
STATE STUDENTS.
7 Under the Law Of the last legislature
nlneiy-three students are entitled to
maintenance and instruction here IA
+ the expense OF the state. hut there are