Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1893-11-28

strength of a hundred men without
artificial appliances could not displace
it. Three teams could not haul it if
placed on wagon heavy enough to
hold it. Its body is composed of loose
and soft limestone. imbedded in which
are numerous round, Hinty pebbles of
diamond-li,xe hardness.
Throughout the entire valley where
it is situated it is the sole specimen of
it's kind, for the stones of the county
are entirely disslmilar. The table on
which it rests is hard stone, nearly
as firm and close grained as the blue
stone cut from the quarries of Sullivan
county. This dissimilarity gives rise
to the inference that it was lodged in
its present position by some volcanic
eruption during the drift period,
though whence it migrated lies not in
the old traditions of the county.
Not few of the adamantine pebbles
which indent it's sides have been worn
smooth, and in some cases split in
half. Its sides and corners have also
been worn to almost emery fneness,
probably by the attrition suffered in
its passage.
The valley in which it rests is be-
tween two mountains and about 1900
feet above the level of the sea. form
ing most appropriate pedestal. The
country round about is wild and for
the most part uncultivated.
PAY Or OO---eE PROFESSORS.
President Harper Says the Educators of
America Are Sadly Underpaid.
President w. R. Harper, of the Chi
cago university, analyses in the Forum
statistics of salaries paid to professors
in one hundred and twenty-four Amer
lean colleges College professors, com
pared with Pennsylvania mill hands, it
seems are sadly underpaid. At some
iron mills the entire laboring force is
paid quite as high as many college pro-
fessors. Only the highest class of pro-
fessors are to be compared with the
lower grades of responsible officers of
a railroad, industrial corporation or
insurance company. President Harper
makes strong plea for college pen
sions and thinks the average pay
should be raised from 81, 400 to 81, 900.
The salaries of the lower class of
professors, says DR.. Harper, compare
with the wages of the skilled work
men employed in the mechanical in
dustries The salaries that range up
ward from the general average of one
thousand four hundred and seventy
dollars compare with the pay of skilled
and responsible operatives and of the
lower grades of responsible chemical
and subordinate administrative en-
ployes. 1t is only the highest class of
professors, the incumbents of respon-
sible and exacting posts in the larger
colleges and universities, who are to
be compared with the lower grades of
the responsible officers of railroad or
an industrial corporation or insurance
company.
There is practically no class of col
lege professors whose pay is on level
with the pay of men in positions of
first or second rank and responsibility
in the industrial community; and yet
nobody questions that the higher
grades of university work require quite
as exceptional gifts and quite as elab-
crate preparation, together with all
the most desirable traits of character
that go to make up the highest eff
cheney in the front rank of Industrial
life. For the employment of equally
rare and indispensable talents, in
equally exacting and responsible posi-
tions, the teachers in our universities
are paid at a rate that will in 10 wise
compare with frst-class salaries or per-
sonal incomes in mechanical industry
or in the professions.