The San Francisco call., 1897-02-14
DRILLING, MINES STATE UNIVERSITY

gent Reinstein's expectation that when it re-
1elves it's magnificent new buildings, its new
Vaboratories and its increased faculty it Will
come into closer everyday touch with the in
dustry and be more helpful to it. 1t viii go
forth to the mining regions as the Agricul-
. tural College is now going TO the farmers and
horticulturists hold miners institutes and in
Come degree and by some sort OF university ex-
tension methods take the college to the miners
who cannot come to II. 1t viii be able to carry
on scientific research along various lines OF
importance to the industry and will become
the great center of mining science and mining
instruction. There is no thought or wish to
enter the important practical domain of the
Mining Bureau, much OF whose work could
not be well done at the university. This fu-
ture is indefinite, and the name of the million
aire who proposes to do this princely thing is
not given.
This gift, like that of Mrs. Hearst and
some others not yet announced, awaits the
new plan for the buildings and grounds and
adequate provision by the State Tor the ex-
penses of the university.
&c. The State may be proud OF its College OF
Mines as it is, however-as handicapped as it
is for room and money AS q result OF the
revival OF Interest in mining the number
OF students enrolled for the mining course
this year is nearly double what it was last
year or any year in its history. Last year there
were sixty students and this year there is ITO.
AS the College of Mines is an integral part OF
the university and not a merely affiliated in
sttution. with entirely independent
faculty, like the colleges of medicine,
law and dentistry, it possesses at
once an advantage which could never
be gained by an independent institution.
Physics, chemistry, mathematics and
geology are the foundation OF the mining
course, and the students in mining pursue
these studies in common with all other STU
dents of the university. The buildings, labor
atories etc, which afford facilities for these
studies could not be supplied for 81, 900, 900.
The department of geology under Professor lie
COnte is famous for lis work and its men, and
it3 museum comprises many thousands OF
specimens. The new and magnificently
equipped chemistry building and the separate
n dings and equipments for the departments
of@schanical and electrical engineering are
also thus parts of the College OF Mines.
The college has separate buildings of its
own which are rather extensive, but still in
adequate large three-story brick building
and frame building, in whicn is a small but
complete mill for gold and silver ores, are de-
. voted exclusively to instruction in mining
and metalurgy This department is presided
over by Professor S. B. Christy, who has held
the chair OF mining and metaIlurgy for many
years.
metsllurgist, ana his recent researches in con-
nection with the cyanide process have at
tracted widespread attention among miners
and netallurgists. The equipment Of this
department is especially adapted to the study
Of the ores of gold and silver, and this
specially, wh hich is proper one on the Pacific
Coast. distinguishes this school from all other
similar ones in the world. Among the i'm port
ant features ofthe equipment for the special
study of mining is the assay laboratory oc-
cupying six rooms, and research laboratory
Oh four rooms, well supplied with furna ces for
al tests of ores, crushing and sampling
room, shops for the sharpening and tempering
OF tools. aud in separate building a complete
mn! supplied with an ore-crusher, three-stamp
battery, cpncentrator and a great variety
Oh other machinery. The laboratories
ana shops are we'll equipped with cleo
tlcal chemical, physical and mechani-
cal accessories, and several thousand
lantern slides and stereopticon in the lee
ture-roon illustrate every phase of mining all
over the world. Ores OF all kinds and grades
arel freely supplied by mine-owners from all
oVelk the coast. About one-half a students
ting is spent in the laboratory, mill or other
pracucaI work, and one of the first things a
student learns is how TO drill holes in the big
granite blocks set behind the main building.
using first hand drills and sledges and then
different sorts of machine drills. From this
the student advances to the higher prob
lens of mining engineering. Each vacation
the students, with few exceptions, spend the
whole time at actual work in some OF the big