Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-12-27
Tucson Citizen.

By an act of Congress passed last August, such state and territory comply ing with certain requirements for the es- tablishment and maintenance of Agri- cultural colleges is entitled to all appro- priation of S15.000 per annun. to be aug mented by an additional 5000 per year for 10 years, when the appropriation will be $25.000 per year. This sum will then be g perpetual endowment
 All states and territories are now es- tablishing these colleges, the principal object Of which is that agricultural pur- suits may be put on plane with other professions, and be more inteliigently uu- derstood.
 The territory of Arizona, when con- templating the erecting of a school of mines laid plans for the erection of the school on more extensive scale than would otherwise have been done, that the Agricultural College might be run as an adjunct, and the United States ap- propriation secured. This has been done. and the cost of building and laying out of grounds. which has been some S30,000, is largely dependent on the United States appropriation.
 This appropriation was made by the United States q few days siuce, and yes terday Territorial Auditor Thos. Hughes was in receipt of notification from Terri torial Treasurer John I. Smith, that the S15,000 was in his possession, subject to orders of the Auditor. The sum will now be expended as the Board of Regents of Arizona may deem advisable, to which end they laid all plans, and for which their business has, to considerable ex- tent, been in wait The Agricultural College will comprise the chief feature of the university, and will be totally inde- pendent of the Agricultural Experiment Station, which is also supported by the | United States, and the territorial School of Mines.
 1 The Board of Regents are at present in l communication with the faculty, which will consist of five or six professors MT. | J. M. Ormsby, of the Board. gives the in 1 formation that the College proper will be opened some time in the Spring, prob ] ably about the 1st of April. Many com munications of inquiry as to the schools have been received, and it is expected that from 50 to 50 pupils will be enrolled ip the Agricultural College alone, from Arizona and adjacent states and terri tories.
 The curriculum will be somewhat limited, though not more than has beer deemed needful. It will be altogether practical, and nothing merely ornamen. tai will be taught. The chief studies will consist of higher Mathematics, Assaying Metallurgy. Chemical Analysis and al pertaining to agricultural science.
 Tuition will be free. and for the pres cut students will board outside the col lege. Plans are now under consideration for another building for dormitories fo students and residences for the faculty which will be erected south of the mail building,
 The contemplated outlay from th, $15,000 appropriated for the Agricultura College for the present year will be, as a present estimated, something like $500 in salaries, and the balance ill apparatus
 More is needed for various purposes, par ticularly the residence. and dormitor,
 building, but the outlay must be governed
 by appropriations. the expenditure o which for several years to come IS alread,
 planned.