The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-03-29
NOTION DEPARTMENT

pay IL is doubtful IL eastern furniture
dealers will accept warrants In pay
ment for the equipment, furniture and
supplies for the school. 1t is also
doubtful IL professors and instructors
can be found who will consent to give
their services to the School of Mines
in return for warrants payable at an
indefinite time. The board expects
however that the $1,000 from the Uni
ted States government, mentioned
above. will be available before long and
consequently has concluded to go ahead
If the architects and contractors will
put up the building.
II was decided, before calling for
plans for the building to send one
member of the board of commissioners
to the Golden school of mines in Colo
RADIO, with instructions to ascertain
what facilities in the way of buildings
and equipments should be provided for
the Montana school. The act passed
by the last legislature allows the COM
missloners to expend 100000 In build
ings, and $4,000 in equipments, but II
is probable that the commissioners VIII
decide not to reach the above limit for
the present in the construction OF
buildings AS soon as the commission
err returns from Colorado with his re-
port concerning the building and equip
ment of the Golden school Of mines,
architects will be asked to submit
plans for suitable buildings.
Section 1879 of the act approved
Feb. IL 1898. Is as follows:
THE said school of mines shall be
opened and free for instruction to all
bona fide residents of this state. with
out regard to sex or color. and with
the consent of said board, students
from other states or territories may re-
ceive an education thereat, upon such
terms and at such rates of tuition as
the board may prescribe"
1t will be evident from the above Sec
tion that the school must rely for Its
financial support to sources entirely
different from revenue from the attend
ance. From the inquiries which have
been received it is probable that the
Butte school will start off next fall
with 80 pupils, all from the state OF
Montana. 1t can hardly be expected
that there will be much attendance
from other states until the Butte
school has been running n few years
and acquired some reputation.
The Golden school of mines has 100
pupils, who take af our years course
of instruction. The Golden school was
established by act of legislature Feb.
9, 1874, and an appropriation was
granted by the general assembly. The
first building was erected in 1880 and
an additional appropriation was made
in 1881. In 1887 more buildings were
erected out OF the income, the source
of which was one-fiftn of one mill of
the state tax. Before the debt on the
building was cleared the income was
reduced from one-fifth to one-siNth OF
a mill, but the assembly Of 1898 grant
ed an appropriation of $4,000. The
tuition at this institution is also free,
but there IS a charge in the assay ana
chemical departments of SIS per term
for fuel. chemicals. ETC., which is paid
by each student,
At the Michigan mining school. To-
Gated at Houghton, which was opened
in September, 1886, there is no charge
for tuition, but the institution Is sup
ported by the state. The main build
ing, called Science hail, was completed
in 1889, at a cost of $4,000. Its dimen-
sions are 100 by SO feet, with a wing 81
by 25 feet. Another building. designat-
ed as Engineering hall. has been re-
Gently constructed and was first occu-
pied in August. 1894.