Arizona weekly citizen., 1891-08-08
UNIVERSITY. Arizona's Great Agricultur-
 al School. FACULTY OF THE COLLEGE. A Brief Outline of the Courses
 of Instruction. History of the School, ,Iits Finances. and the Advantages for an
 Education therein.

The demand Tor ana interest III higher education in the west illustrates one of the most noticeable features of the American citizen. The very great majority of our citizens, foreign born as well as native, believe in fostering education. No matter how new the country or sparse the population, the school house IS considered essential, and high schools and colleges follow the building of towns.
 The establishment of the university of Arizona shows that the people of the territory are not less interested in education than residents of other portions of the country.
 The university owes Its origin partly to the national demand for educational facilities, and partly to the prevalent home sentiment in favor of school of liberal culture,
 In 1881 the congress of the United States made an appropriation of 1000 acres of the public lands to Arizona, and the same to several other territories, for the support of university or institution of learning.
 In 1882 the superintendent of public instruction made a selection of the lands, but as no immediate revenue could be derived from the land, nothing further was done till the spring of 1885, when the legislature of the territory made an appropriation of S25,ooo to found an Institution of Learning, which should be known as the University of Arizona, and located 1t Eat, or near, rlFe> city of Tucson"
 Iheestablishing act provided for the aPpolh-nent of board of regents "by the govef'oy of the territory, by ana With the auVi,@ and consent of the council, two-thirds ol he members of the council concurring th,-e in"
 In compliance with this acr : hoard of regents was appointed, the r>ard formally organized and beginning made in the organization of the instit ution.
 A tract of land lying just outside o the limits of the city of Tucson wa: donated to the university and selected by the board as the university grounds A building was planned and contract entered into for Its erection, October 1887, the building to cost $37,969.
 Owing to lack of funds to complete the building and open the university tc students, not much more was done eN cept to continue the work on the building until other funds became avail able.
 1 In 1887 an act was passed by congress appropriating to each state and territory, $I5,ooo per annum, ''tc promote scientific investigation and experiment respecting the principle: and applications ofagricultural science there shall be established, under direction of the college or colleges, ol agricultural departments of colleges ir each state or territory established, ir accordance with the provisions of ar act approved July 2nd, 1862, entitled tAn act donating public lands to the several states and territories which may provide colleges for the benefit oi az -iculture, and the mechanic art, or any of the supplements to said acts, a department to be known and designated as an Agricultural Experiment Station.
 In the fall of 1889 tie board of re, gents acting in conjunction with the governor of the territory, took the initiatory steps "to establish an ex- pertinent station" in Arizona,
 An agricultural college was es- tablished as a part of the university, and a director appointed, who was also elected professor of agriculture
 After considerable labor on the part of the board of regents ably assisted by the governor of the territory, ten thousand dollars for Arizona, was, by recommendation of the secretary of agriculture, placed in deficiency bill, which included New Mexico and Utah. This amount was made available in June of 1890, and the board entered into contracts covering the full amount allowed for the fiscal year ending June goth, 1890. For the year ending June goth, 1891, Arizona received her full quota, which, with the appropriation for 1890, has been expended in equipping four agricultural experiment stations, one at the university, one at Phoenix, one three miles south of Tempe on the NJ. & P. railway, and one near Yuma.
 In 1862 an act, known as the "Mor- Till Bill' was passed by congress, ap- propriating 3o,ooo acres of the public lands to each state for each congress sional representative, for the support of an agricultural and mechanical college. No funds from this source are yet available, but on August goth, 1890, a supplementary bill which was passed by by congress was approved, which appropriates to each state and ter ritory commencing with the year ending June goth; 1890, $I5,ooo for first year, and an annual increase of the amount of such appropriation thereafter for ten years, by an ad- ditional sum of one thousand dollars over the preceding year, and the an- nual amount to be paid thereafter to each state and territory shall be $25,- ooo, to be applied only to instruction