The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-01-14
THE sCHooL OF MINES.
1t Should be Established in Owyhee
County.

Tho verv liberal donation OF land
made by Congress to the State of Idah o
for the support of educational institu-
tiens, will enable this state, ifthe funds
derived from the sale or rental of these
lands are wisely used, to equip E rst class
institutions. The State University now
located at Moscow and placed under the
control of a board of regents, has already
made 4 fair start to become a prosps r
oua, popular and very useful institution
of learning. It's location was wisely
! chosen, it being situated In one Of the
| most fertile and attractive sections of
this great state. The Agricultural Col
lege, for the support of which liberal
appropriations have been made, has not
yet had its site selected, but will donbt-
less be located in some one of the many
garden spotsp of the state, and asonly
one of these garden spots, the beautiful
Bruneau valley, is in this county, it is
not likely that Owyhee county will be
more than mentioned when the location
of that institution is to be fixed. Nell
ther will Owyhee be s'in ip' for the To-
cation Of either of the normal schools.
| There is a wide division of opinion re-
specting the policy to be pursued in se-
ecting locations for these various insti-
tutions. The Governor of the state, who
is a.citizen-of, and an exte nsive prop
erty owner in Moscow, where the State
Universitysis located, processes TO be-
| lieve and advocates in his message that
all the educational institutions should
be constructed in and around the uni
versity. Such policy, however, will
various sections will have to receive
their due consideration.
In the history of the territory and
state there has never been single in
stance where Owyhee county has put in
adclai N for any public institution The
Insane Asylum, the Penitentiary, the
Agricultural Experimental Stations and
the State University have all been To-
Gated without Owyhee having been con-
sdsred. This has all been well enough,
simply because this county is not CEN
tral and is not, up to date, as readily ac-
cessib BILE as several of the other coun-
ties But in the distribution of the pub
lie institutions Owyhee can present ex-
traordinary good claims for one of
them. That one is the School of Mines.
Owyhee is large and wealthy county.
1t now out ranks any county in the state
in the amount and variety Of its mineral
productions. From a geological and
mineralogical standpoint it is one of the
most interesting sections on the conti-
nent. 1t possesses among it's varied for
nations, granite mountains, the varied
igneous formations, from lava flows
which can be measured and studied in
Bruneau canyon to depth of more than
three thousand feet, to all the varied
characters of porphyritic rock. 1t has
alse many interesting deposits of varied
characters of rock from pure marble
to dolomite and other lime formations
micaceus sandstone and schists, fields of
wonderful petrifactions, chalk and mag
nesia deposits aud, in short, such an
endls variety of geological studies as
bot few similar areas in the world can
present. Its meteorological resources are
80 extensive and wonderful that the
county takes the highest rank of any
section of the great mountain regions OF
the continent. Added to all these fea-
lures which make it attractive to the
student, it presents opportunities for the
study of practical mining in its many
branches to the best advantage. We
have here free milling and amalgamat-
ing gold and silver oree, copper and lead
car Donates, sulphurets, arsenical iron
ores carrying precious metals, and all
the varieties of ores requisite for the
study of all known processes of reduc-
ton and refining of the precious metals,
In addition to these again, we have the
greatest opal mines ever found in Amer
lea have fields which produce dia-
monds, sspphires, emeralds and rubies,
and other locations in which asbestos,
mica and cinnabar are found. One dare
scarcely say what other mineral treas
ures may not yet be discovered and de-
veloped in this wonderful county.
0wyhee county presents command
ing claim for the location of school in
which to educate young men for the
pursuit of the most important industry
of the state. Thus briefly mentioned the
NUGGET calls the attention of the legis-