Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-12-27
NEW MEXICO
SCHOOL OF MINES.
The Usefulness Of This Institution
to the Territory is no Longer
Problematical.
COVERS FIELD OF ITS OWN.
Congress Will Probably Pass the Act Ex-
tending Liberal Support to the School
of Mines-An Income From :0tber
Sources.

Prof. F. A. Jones, of Socorro, prcsi-
dent of the School of Mines at Socorro,
who is in the city attending the edu-
catinal association meetin", is con-
vinced that the school of mines occupies
a place of Importance in the future de-
velopment of the territory. He said to-
day:
Yes, the New Mexico School of Mines
is now beginning to fulfill the purpose
for which the institution was designed.
The work now carried on in mining en-
gineering and chemistry is fully up to
the standard of any similar schools in
America. The school has recently made
many additions in the line of equip
ment to successfully place it ON high
plane Of scientific and technical work.
The work in general is far different in
character from that of any of the sis
ter institutions, which the territory has
established; and the field covered by it's
instruction is not, as some few have
claimed, to- duplicate work dome in the
other territorial institutions. The school
does not give instructions in pedagogy,
military tactics, bookkeeping or the
dead languages. Although prepara-
tory department is now run in con-
junction with the technical work, this
Is only done to fit the candidates for the
more advanced work in the scientific
and tho WORK in tbiS linn ic
gradually being eliminated as the
school grows in numbers and reputa-
ton, and it is only a question of a
short time until no preparatory work
whatever will be done in the institution.
When this time is reached the promo
ters creating it's establishment will then
fully realize their ideal in a technical
school, to which the people of the ter
ritory may justly point with pride.
The true greatness of the territory
cannot lie wholly in it's agricultural
achievements, but must be looked for
in the development of its mineral
wealth. The school is constantly ex-
amining the various mineral resources
Of the territory for it's many enterpris-
ing citizens, and on the strength of its
unbiased reports, capitalists with CON-
fidence place their investments. The
good emanating from the school of
mines is not merely local affair, but
is creating more taxable wealth for the
territory at. large than comes from any
other source. The few thousands of
dollars which the school receives annu-
ally for it's support is mere pittance
to the good created and derived
through it's beneficent influence. The
many young men who have and who
now seek instruction at it's doors occu-
py prominent metallurgical and engin-
eering positions in the territory, and
are fitting themselves for the higher
technical work which the rapidly ad-
vancing methods Of the mineral indus
try demands. The measure now pend
ing in congress giving to the school fed
eral support is confidently expected to
become law. This measure passed the
senate without a dissenting voice, and
was reported on favorably by the COM
mittee to which it was referred in the
house. This measure provides for the
school $4,000 the first year, and an in
crease of $1,000 per annum for five years,
reaching a permanent fund of $4,000
annually. The success of this measure
is practically assured, and with the rev.
enue eventually derived from the $4,000
acres of land donated to the school by
the Ferguson act, the New Mexico
School of Mines will overshadow the
older Institutions in the promotion and
methods pertaining to the metallurgical
sciences.
Thus, you see, the New Mexico
School of Mines has before it bright
future, and its welfare will be zealously
guarded by people of the territory"