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

your excellency will recommend the
legislature 10 cover by an appropria-
tion. As the legislature ordered 9S
students to be received, and appro-
priated only 81 500 for each scholastic
year Of nine months, IL will be readily
seen by a simple calculation that
only 1886 per month was allowed for
board, fuel, washing, lights, quarters
and instruction of each student. and
heace the deficiency. If state stu
dents are to be continued at this coli
lege, the appropriation for their sup
port should be made for Sl3.33s per
month per student, as they cannot
possibly he maintained here for less
COLLEGE LAND SUIT.
a portion of the college land ia in
litigation between the state and college
on the one side and Peter Winter and
John ;. Fowlkes and G. Tilley on the
other. The said tract consists OF 102
acres off the northeast corner OF the
college tract Of 2,4l6 acres; and suit
WINS brought at my instance, and by
direction of the board of directors, az
ter survey Of the college lands had
convinced me that said tract was a
part of the college purchase. | en-
ployed the law firm of Henderson &
Henderson to bring suit, which they
brought for the state, and subsequently
at their Instance the firm of Ford d
Ford was employed, and they inter-
vened for the college. Attic trial ofthe
case during the fall term OF 1889, the
plaintiff prevailed. and recovery of
the land was had for the state with the
judgment conditioned for the payment
by the state to the defendant Peter
Winter of $500, for his improvements
before he could be dispossessed.
The defendants have appealed said
case to the supreme court, where it is
now pending. Your Excellency is re-
specially requested to recommend
legislative appropriation of $500 as re-
quired by the judgment, to pay Peter
Winter for his valuable improvements
on said land, and also one of 500, or
as much thereof as may be necessary
to pay attorneys fees, and costs of
court.
PRESSING WANTS OF TIE COLLEGE.
For the most pressing wants for
quarters and equipment, for the extern
sion of the college and its legitimate
work not less than fifty thousand dol
lars will be needed. Agricultural,
horticultural and stock-breeding cam
not he taught from books alone, or H.
Illustrated in the lecture room. A large
well fenced, well-stocked farm is
prime necessity, with that abundance
OF tools, teams, machinery etc, neces-
sary for practical instruction of large
classes. For the mechanical students
we need large shops and
a greater number of tools,
machines and appliances. For the
practical study of the sciences, chem
istry, physics, botany, geology, min
eralogy, we need spacious laboratory
to itself, with its various departments
thoroughly provided with most ap-
proved and latest instruments of
physical research models, specimens.
chemicals, etc. The department of
civil engineering is suffering badly
for increased number Of instruments
for field work. The library needs
the constant addition OF new scien-
life works as they appear, and the
regular standard scientific journals.
Quarters for two hundred more stu
dents, Tor professors and officers. and
for the sick; apparatus and materials
for giving instruction in printing. and
in the use OF telegraph and telephones;
livestock for the farm, and the means
of artificial irrigation. These are only
the most urgent needs, which must be
satisfied ifthe college is TO do well and
proiitably the great work which is eX-
pected OF IL by our people which
ought to be done by it rs alfactor in the
states progress. Fifty thousand dollars
Is II small sum to contribute for this
purpose, especially when it is done 10
place within the means of the great
mass of our population the advantage
OF a collegiate education ON a practi-
cal, scientific basis. | remain, with
great respect,
Your obedient servant.
JOHN q. JAMES,
President