Arizona weekly citizen., 1890-12-27
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.
One of the Principal Features of the Territorial University--To be Sup ported by the United States--The Curriculum and Expected Attend ance--A Faculty Being Secured.

By an act of Congress passed last August, each state and territory com plying with certain requirements for the establishment and maintenance of Agri- cultural colleges is entitled to an apprO- priation of Sl5,OO0 per annum, to be aug men; cd by an additional Sl000 per year for lr years, when the appropria- ton will oe s25,00O rer year. This sum will then oe psT DC: ual endowment. All states and territories are now ss- , .ablishlng these colleges, the principal object of which is that agricultural pur- suits may be put on plane with other professions, and be more intelligently I understood.
 The territory of Arizona, when con templating the erection of d school of 1 mines laia plans for the -rection Of the school on a more extensive scale than would otherwise Lave been done, that | the Agricultural College might oe run as an adjunct, ana tue United States ap- l propriation secured. This has been done, and the cost of '5ullding and laying out | of grounds, which lan been some S30, COG,
 IS largely depeuden: on the United States appropriation.
 This appropriation was made by the United States a few days since, and yes tsrday Territorial Auditor IhOs. Hughes was in receipt of notification from Terri | torial Treasurer JohE |. '. Smith, that the Sl5,U00 was in his possession, sub ject Co orders of the Auditor. The sum will now be expended as the Board of Regents of Arizona may deem advisable, to which end they have laid all plans, and for which their business has, to a considerable extent, been in wait. The Agricultural College will comprise the chief feature of the university, and will be totally independent of the Agricultu- ral Experiment Station, which is also supported by the United States, and the territorial School of Mines.
 The Board of Regents are at present in communication with a faculty, which will consist of five or six professors. Mir. J. NJ Omsby, of the Board, gives the in formation that the College proper will be opened some time in the Spring, probably about the 1st of April. Many communications of inquiry as to the schools have been received, and 1t is ex- p0CltU IIdb lIOul OO JO DIS W III DC enrolled, in the Agricultural College alone, from Arizona and adjacent states, and terri orIes.
 Ths currlculum will be somewhat limited, though not more than has been deemed needful. It will be altogether practical, and nothing merely ornamen- tai Ill be taught. The chief studies will consist of higher Mathematics, As sayil g, Metallurgy, Chemical Analysis and ali pertain ng to agricultural science.
 Tuition will be free, and for the pres sent students will board outside the college. Plans are now under considera- tion for ano; o;her building for Gormitories for students and residences for the facul- ty, which will be erected south of the main building.
 The contemplated outlay from the e15,O00 appropriated for the Agricultur al College for the present year will be, as at present estim ated, something like S5000 in salaries, and the balance in ap- paratus. More is needed for various purposes, particularly the residence and dormitory building, but the outlay must be governed by appropriations, the ex penditure of which for several years to come is already planned.