Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-12-04
THE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.
$50, 900 Per Year Guaranteed For Its
Support-A Rich Plum That is
Worth Grasping For.

Worth Grasping For.
Among the other prominent acts of
the legislature, that will interest the peo-
pie this session, is the location of the
Agricultural College. Several cities of
Idaho, both north and south, are
working for this college. Lewiston has
advantages superior to any of these and
by prompt concertive action her citi-
zens can secure the location of the
college here. Other cities are working,
and working hard, to secure this.
They will present memorials, send a
lobby and offer subsities to enduce the
Legislature to act in their favor. Lew
iston, with advantages superior to any,
is the most listless in working to secure
the prize. The citizens should awake
to the Importance Of the occasion.
Under the Congressional enactments
already in force, the government alone
will expend $50, 900 in carrying out the
plans for the development of sucA an
institution. The state will lend addi-
tional aid. With such fund availa-
BILE the growth of the institution would
be rapid. Lewiston is already the CEN
ter of fruit culture in the state. The
soil, the climate, the location are each
and all peculiarly adapted for the
development of such an institution.
With the college located here such an
impetus would be given to agriculture,
horticulture, arbor culture as would
make Lewiston the central point of
interest in these lines for the whole
northwest. That our citizens may the
more fully comprehend the matter we
append the following information
furnished lately to Hon. Fred T.
Dubois by the assistant secretary of the
: Department of Agriculture.
= "In compliance with your request for
information in regard to the aid to be
: obtained from the national government
!" for the maintenance of an agricultural
e and mechanical college in Idaho, l call
e your attention to three acts of congress.
The first act, approved July 2, 1862,
grants each State for the endowment of
g all agricultural and mechanical college
It an amount of public land equal to
a 80, 900 acres for each senator and repre-
!, sentative in congress to which the
Il State is entitled. This act requires that
u the capital of the endowment shall re-
|. main forever undiminished except as
!, noted below, and that the interest shall
" be inviolably appropriated to the EN-
> dowment, support and maintenance of
a at least.one college where the leading
v object shall be, without excluding other
~ scientific and classical studies. and in
Guiding military tactics, to teach such
II branches of learning as are related to
ts agriculture and the mechanic arts.
rt The exception referred to above permits
:. the expenditure of a sum not to eX.
ceed ten per centum upon the amount
received by any state for the purchase
20 of land for sites or experimental farms,
,s but no portion of the fund nor the in.
" terest thereon may be applied, directly
T. or indirectly, to the purchase, erection,
al preservation or repair of any building
a or buildings.
:, The second is the "Hatch act of 1887, u
which grants each state and territory
$l5, 600 per annum for the maintenance
10 under the direction of the college OF
" colleges, or agricultural department O
y colleges established in accordance with
" y. the provisions of the act above quoted
III of an agricultural experiment station
lp for the prosecution of research in the
h various lines of agricultural inquiry.
The third Is the "MOrrill act of 1890,
u which appropriates to each state alit
te territory for the more complete endOw
to ment and maintenance of colleges fOl
r the benefit of agriculture and the ME
chanic arts, now established or which
or may be established hereafter in accord
v. ance with the act of 1862, the sum o
$4,000 for the year ending July 80
1e 1890, and provides for annual increas.
ne of the amount for ten years by an addi
te. tional 81 900 until the annul grant shal
,,s he $25, 600. This money Is to be ap
piled only to instruction in agricultur
p and the mechanic arts, the Englisl
re language and the various branches Q
to mathematical, physical, natural, ant
". economic science with especial refer
w ence to their proper application in tn
're industries of life, etc.
ng The Agricultural Department assist
". from $500 to $1,000 annually for ez
roc periments in the cultivation and i'm
provement of native grasses.
ro These arts are subject to certain cor
IN, ditions to be complied with by tn
tly State governments. Each State Is n
his quired to accept the grants made and
49, assume the responsibility for thel
ny management and preservation; to pa
er- from the State Treasury all expeDse
wn incurred in management, superintel
oo- dence and taxes from date of selectiO
of lands granted by the first act pr
N vious to their sale, and all expenses II
ro- Cured in the management and di
be bursement Of the money received ther
nd from, and to guarantee an annual II
~ come Of at least 5 per cent. on tn
rel money. The institutions establishe
hu- are to be for the especial benefit Of agl
'0k culture and the mechanical arts.
an Briefly stated, If Idaho will found q
MS agricultural and mechanical cOlleg
M furnish it with buildings and provit
re- for their future maintenance, the #
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