The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1902-11-20
Becoming a Factor.

Pacific Rural PreSs, and does mu n
credit to Nevada's leading institution
and educators:
kbow a neighborly satisfaction over
the progress Of our Sister State on the
East and to show our readers it's dis
4inguished president and a general
view of the buildings in which his wei
Selected faculty and it's large numbers
@of pupils do their work together. The
1ast annual register shows total of
414 pupils, of which 231 are young
men and 1873 young women. This at
Mention to higher education is very
3ereditable, and the number of pupils
collected is gratifyingly large consid-
ering the population of Nevada. TIE
State University is the head of the
educational system of the State, and
is in fact the only institution of col
lege grade in Nevada. 1t is elig
situated at Reno, a thriving town CT
7 600 Inhabitants, and has campus
of nearly forty acres beautifully To-
Gated on an eminence overlooking the
city. There are nine buildings now in
use eight of which are shown in the
accompanying engraving, and they
show in a general way the housing CT
the institution. They include very
creditab,e equipment for instruction,
and vet the University shares with
other of the newer institutions of the
farther West the embarrassment CT
Inadequate space for the fullest dis
charge of its work, says the Pacific
Ruray Press.
The president of the University, D..
]. Il. Stubbs, is a widely known edu-
Gator and was thoroughly fitted for his
work by his training at the Ohio Wes-
leyan University And by experience in
the several positions to which he was
called in eastern institutions before
coming to this coast. We are partie-
ularly drawn to him by his earnest
work for the promotion of agricultural
education and agricultural science. He
occupies a prominent position in the
councils Of the Association of Ameri-
ean Agricultural Colleges and Expe4i-
ment Stations and held. the presidency
thereof during 1899 and 1900. AT the
long-to- to-be-remembered meeting which
this body held in San Francisco, and
which was attended by leading edu-
Gators from all over the country, DIR.
Stubbs contributed greatly to the sue
cess of the occasion and demonstrated
to the acceptance of all that the in
spring activity and energy OF the Pa
cific coast comport well with the quail
tiles of scholarly gentleman.
DR.. Stubbs is director of the Nevada
Agricultural Experiment Station,which
is at the University in that State as
In California, and 1t Is fact, chiefly
because of the work of this station,
that 1t occurred to US to give our
teaders a glance at the Nevada Uni
yersity.
The station staff at Reno is well
known in California. Prof. r. II. Nc
Dowell. who has the branches of agrl-
culture and animal industry, has pub
lished bulletins which are very sugges-
tive in some parts of California.
Prof. NJ E. Wilson has participated
very acceptaby at our dairy conven-
tions. We should speak particularly
Beveridge Kennedy. botanist and hor-
ticulturist, and Instructor S. B. Doten,
entomologist, who have Jointly COM
pleted a piece of exploration and econ
omic study which we regard as one
of the most important which has been
for The advancement of its State by
any Pacific coast station. This work
Is a careful exploration Of the Nevada
ranges, the report Of which will be o.
great and lasting value to the devei-
opment not only of Nevada, but of ad-
jacent parts of California On ano-
ther page of this issue we give an
opening chapter of this report, from
which the reader can judge for him
sc ( Of its pertinenee aond value. Later
parts which we shall present in future
issues will give our readers very def
mite idea of the present features of
Nevada ranging and of the plants, both
good and bad, which are chiefly en-