Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-07-13
SCHOOL OR MINES
An Institution Where Young Men Ma
Qualify for Mining Positions.

Qualify for Mining Positions.
Professor F. A. Jones, of the New
Mexico school of mines, is visiting the
writes as follows of the work of the in
| stitution:
1.-The New Mexico school of mines, a
territorial institution located at Socorro,
is designed to afford instruction in as
saying, chemistry, metallurgy, mining
and civil engineering The laboratory
building, erected at a cost of $4,000 is
one of the finest and best equipped in
, prosperous condition than ever before.
Owing to the liberality of the last ter
ritorial legislature, the number of in
structors will be increased next year,
and the facilities for instruction will be
greatly improved.
Besides the regular degree courses,
there are offered at the school special
courses in a%ssaying, plane surveying
and prospecting, each occupying from
six to nine months. A preparatory
course is offered for the accommodation
of students who have not had the oppor-
tunities necessary to prepare for tech
nical work of the institution.
"The mining industry is undergoing
a general and rapid development. More
scientific methods of mining and ore
treatment are now being employed by
successful operators. There is, there
fore, a steady demand for young men
with such technical knowledge as the
school of mines is designed to afford.
The wide-awake, ambitious young mar
can find no more useful or remunerative
field of labor.
I'VE have secured the services of
Professor William G. Phalen, of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
for giving instruction in chemistry and
geology. Professor Phalen is a special
ly recommended.
Every effort is being made to make
the institution among the best and most
practical in the west.
AtS w ASooy LII oNt
pass I'd by the territorial Legislature, to
appropriate $685. 900 annually for miner
illogical, geological and metallurgical
research in the territory, if obtained,
will place the school of mines on a foot
ing with the great schools of technol-
ogy of the east. The attendance last
year was increased 23O per cent over
any previous year.
1T has been remarked that the school
Of mines takes any pupil who may ap-
ply for admission; this is not the case.
Several were refused admission last
year for lack Of qualification and age.
AS to age, no institution in the terri
tory can show such an average. 1 be-
lieve we can boast of having the oldest
pupil Of any college or university In
America. This enthusiastic student is
70 years of age, and intends to be with
us the coming year.
"The numerous inquiries from all over
North America coming to the school,
regarding our mineral resources makes
the school of mines one of the most i'm
portant advertising mediums this terri
tory has.
1--WE are in. dead earnest in making
this school what it should be, and be-
lieve the intelligent people of the terri
tory will stand by us.
"The constant and steady demand for
chemists, metallurgists and mining en-
gineers technically qualified is a mat
ter Of comment by all the eastern
schools of technology. The time has
now fully arrived when the young men
Of this territory must turn from the
beaten paths Of bookkeeping, teaching,
stenography, medicine, law, the dead
languages, etc., not that anything dis
honorable is attached to these subjects,
but because these professions are over
crowded, and competition has forced
down the scale of wages until there is
now scarcely a livelihood in many,
though once remunerative positions.
"The acquisition of Cuba, the Philip
pines and our proximity to Mexico calls
for young men who possess practical
ideas and technical training. Those
thus prepared will find their yoke easy
and their burden light"