Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-12-12
MESIlLA PARK.
Letter Regarding Agricultural and
Mechanic Arts College.
SOME ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Mesilla Park. N. NJ, Dec. S.-The
football game on Thanksgiving day at
the college, at Mesilla Park, resulted
in a victory for the team from the AL
huquerque Indian school by a score of
6 to 0. In accordance with the arrange
ment made at the beginning of the
year the football season of the present
season. at Mesilla Park. closed with
the Thanksgiving game.
The senatorial committee on terrific
ries paid a brief visit to the college, at
Mesilla Park, during its hurried trip
through the territory. The committee
expressed qualification at seeing so
well equipped an educational institu-
ton in the territory and vas surprised
TO notice the large attendance of both
native and other students. They pass
ed through all parts of the institution
and visited the pumping experimental
work conducted on the college farm.
At its last meeting the board of re.
gents of the college at Mesilla Park
authorized the holding of a series of
farmers Institutes in the territory.
The director of the station is now max
ing arrangements for such institutes.
which will be held in such localities as
may be deemed best for the purpose,
and where the local residents resire to
cooperate in the work with the col
lege. Persons interested in securing
such institutes are requested to COM
municate with President Foster.
The great demand for more rooms
and buildings for the college at Mesilla
Park is emphasized daily by the still
increasing attendance of students. The
enrolment at this time is POP. and all
departments of the institution are
crowded. Accommodations for young
women in the girls dormitory are
barely sufficient to meet the needs. In
one room in the college building three
different departments are crowded.
The urgent demand for more room at
the Mesilla Park college was never
greater than it is now.
Col. Alfred S. Frost, the regular ar
my officer detailed as professor of mil
itary science and tactics in the college
at Mesilla Park, arrived recently to
take charge of his department. He
has made requisition upon the war de-
partment for equipment of guns, rifles
and all necessary accoutrements with
which to equip a large number of male
students in the college, who will re-
ceive the military training given. The
college battalion number at present
about $50 men and were given their
first drill on the 3rd inst. Military drill
is required of all male students in the
college.
The experimental work in pumping
for irrigation which is being conducted
by the experiment station, at Mesilla
Park, is to be extended and carried
further. The board of regents of the
institution. at a recent meeting, made
an additional appropriation for carry
ing on the work, recognizing fully its
value to the different interests of New
Mexico as q whole. Arrangements
are being made to sink a twelve or
fourteen inch well. A bulletin giving
results of all experimental work so
far accomplished is in course of prep
aration and promises to be a fairly
complete lTedJlSe Oh the important
subject of pumping for irrigation.
The library of the college at Mesilla
Park, is rapidly growing to the inn
portance of being one of largest and
best managed in the southwest. Re-
cent additions to the library include a
complete file of bound volumes of Har-
per's Monthly, Century. Review of Re-
views and also over 100 other bound
volumes of periodicals. These volumes.
with magazine index, are of especial
value for extended reference work
and in connection with the English de-
partment of the college and debating
societies. Heavy purchases of books
for the library have been made in the
last few months and all received have
been catalogues. The library is ar
ranged by the open shelf system. Civ
ing the students access to the books
for their work and general reading,
and its classification is in every way
modern and up to date.
The value of commercial interests