The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-01
LOOKING AT PLANS
Meeting Of the Trustees and ruilding
Commission of the School of Mines.
THE SUMMERS PROGRAMME
Messrs. Coodale and Pauls On, Who
Visit the Golden. Col. Instltu-
ton, Submit a Report = TO
Build on the West side.
THE SUMMERS PROGRAMME

a meeting was held yesterday morn
ing of the board of trustees and build
ing commissioners of the Montana
state school of mines, at which plans
were submitted by c. E. Paulsen of
Helena, the supervising architect of
the state. and were adopted. The
plans are only for the first of a group
of buildings which. it is expected. will
eventually grace the school of mines
across the gulch.
The lot for the school of mines is
376 by 500 feet 1t is a little south of
the western extension of Park street.
lying on ridge running down from
the big butte. 1t is in the Montrose
addition. 1t has been decided to erect
the buildings on a quadrant, facing the
city. The one now to be erected will
occupy the northeastern corner of the
lot and will face the east, or the city
directly, and will be conspicuous from
almost every part of Butte The Sec
ond building, or main one, will occupy
the east center of the lot and will face
the southeast. The third building will
occupy the southeast corner and will
face the south. These will be the three
main buildings, or the administration
building with dts two wings of which
the left wing, 1T is hoped, will be erect
ed this summer. Eventually, perhaps
in 10 or is years, II Is hoped that a
manual training and electrical build
ing will be erected in the western part
of the lot and residences for the pro-
fessors in the northwestern corner. Az
present, however, the trustees are con-
corning themselves solely with the one
building, and this will be the only
building until the number of pupils
warrant additional accommodations.
The building to be erected this sum-
mer will face Butte directly and will
be 120 feet front by 100 feet deep. 1t
will cost about $4,000 and will consist
of basement, two stories and an at
tic. The design is renaissance, and the
front presents an impressive and sol
idly beautiful appearance. The base
ment will be of stone, the upper stor-
les Of pressed brick with stone trim
mings, and the roof of tile The VIM
dows will be trimmed with terra GOTTA.
The building will be constructed of
Montana material exclusively. The
main entrance will be of granite, and
the main staircase will be supported
by columns of polished marble. The
interior of the building, particularly
the staircases and arches, will be SIM
liar on q small scale to the appear
ance of the famous capitol at Albany,
N. Y.
The basement, by the plan, is de-
voted to the chemical and assay de-
partments. There is a chemical lab
oratory, lecture room, professors Of
fee, experimental room, two profess
sorS' laboratories, assay furnaces,
scale room, large store room for chem
ical supplies. The balance of the base
ment is given over to heating and
ventilation. Great pains is taken with
the sanitation of the building and the
ventilation is by immense brick fiues.
Entering the first floor from the log
gia by a massive door to a large ves-
tibule, on the right are the presidents
office, the library, geological lecture
room and the geological exhibit and
work room. On the left are the physics
lecture room, physical apparatus room,
physical laboratory, and a large class
room for metallurgy and mining.
The second floor Is given over to
draughting, engineering and Inathe-
matics. Every room in the building by
the plan is well lighted and well VEN
tilated. The proper provision Is made
for extension to the administration
building which, 1t Is hoped, may be
erected in two or three years. The at
tic can be turned into a serviceable
work room If needed.
The specifications for this building
will be ready in about two weeks, and
contractors will at that time be asked
to send in their bids. Mr.. Paulsen. the
architect, drew the plans for the agri-
cultural college at Bozeman, the deaf
state normal school at Dillon.
1t Is of course understood that the
bidder who receives the contract must
take his pay in warrants to be paid
when the lands appropriated for the
school of mines are sold. There is no
cash whatever at the disposal Of the
trustees. 1t was hoped that some
money might be soon available through
the passage by congress of the bill CIV
ing the school of mines rs per cent. of
the proceeds of the sale of mineral
lands. While visiting the Colorado
School of Mines at Golden, however,
Mr.. Goodale learned that no depend
ence could be placed on this source of
income. Since 1888 the Golden people
had been expecting this bill to be
passed, but in every session II was
placed at the foot of the list and was
never reached. So after the building
is completed there will be no money
with which to pay the professors and
run the school. The trustees, however,
will build this summer and aim to have
the school completed before the legis-
1ature meets. An appropriation to run
the school will then be asked for. The
Paschal bill of the last legislature pro-
vided 100000 for erecting the building
and SIS. 900 for its equipment, but made
no provision for running the school and
paying salaries. So no attempt viii be
made to open the school until next
spring after the legislature has made
the necessary appropriation.
The trustees have decided to start in
with a two years course. The Golden
School of Mines gives a four years
course of instruction. The first two
years is the same for all courses, but
for the last two years students are
given choice OF a civil engineering, a
mining and metallurgical and electrical
engineering course. Students at ad-
mission must pass a satisfactory ex-
animation in the common English
branches and in the first elements of
algebra and geometry. The Butte
school will only have a two years
course at first.
The pay roll of the Golden school is
about $4,000 per year. There are 135
students who pay nothing except for
actual consumption Of fuel and chemi-