Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-11-17
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.
Total Enrolment Army Officer De-
tailed al Institution.
OTHER INTERESTING NOTES.


portant events than in any previous
year. On Saturday, November Is, a
foot ball game will be played between
the teams of the Santa Fe Indian
school and the College. Three other
games will be played during the sea-
son, but dates have not yet been defin-
itely arranged. In addition to these a
basket ball game has been arranged
to be played on Thanksgiving day be-
tween the teams of the Albuquerque
high school and the College, al Las
Cruces, and other basket ball games
are being arranged.
y The total enrolment of students at
the College, at Mesilla Park, is now
1876. To accommodate this greatly in
creased enrolment new equipment has
had to be purchased in some depart
ments. In the shops of the engineer
ing department new FORCES are now
being installed to accommodate the
large attendance of students taking
the short course in practical mechan-
ics. The great need for additional
buildings at the College was never felt
so keenly as at present and the crowd
ed condition of things in the various
departments is growing more serious
with the increasing attendance Of stud
ents. The need for additional buildings
for the College is a most urgent one.
Special order No. 255, of the head
quarters of the United States army at
Washington, ID. c., has just been is
sued detailing Maj. Alfred s. Frost, at
present of Evanston, ILL.,, as professor
of military science and tactics at the
New Mexico Agricultural college, at
Mesilla Park. This important order is
the consummation of attempts that
have been made by the College for
many years past to secure the detail
of a regular army officer to which the
College is entitled under the congress
sional act organizing agricultural col
leges. This detail means that here
after all men students in the college
will receive regular military drill and
instruction in addition to the work
they regularly pursue and that the de-
partment of military tactics In the col
lege will receive a large amount of
valuable equipment from the United
States government tc aid in such in
struction. Major Frost, who is person
ally known to President Foster, of the
college, is an unusually competent Off
Ger for the work of his position.
One of the striking features of the
work Of the college at Mesilla Park in
recent years is the increasing attend
ance of native Mexican students. 1t
becomes more and more evident each
year that the Mexican population of
the territory is growing to appreciate
the advantages offered by the practical
training in agriculture and mechanic
arts. which the college offers. The en-.
rollment of Mexican students consists
for the most part of a class of fairly
mature young men who are earnestly
seeking to fit themselves better for the
work of farmers. mechanics, and en-.
gineers. The two years work provid-
ed in practical mechanics is proving
especially attractive to these young
men and out of a total enrolment In
that course so far of thirty-four, almost
sc per cent consist of students of Mex.
lean parentage. These students are
many of them young men who would
go through life without any special
training whatever were it not for the
practical work offered by the college.
The most important development in
connection with the investigation OF
the best methods of pumping for irri'
cation at the experiment station, al
Mesilla Park, is the fact that Fair
banks. Morse & Co., manufacturers OF
pumping machinery, have sent theil
consulting engineer to the Mesilla
Valley to look into conditions. Upon
his report, the company has under
taken to install on the grounds of the
oil engine, burning Beaumont crude
oil. The engine is guaranteed to de
yelop one-horse power per hour on 6
consumption of one-quarter of a galloI
of Beaumont crude oil and is expected
to raise a flow of 1900 gallons pei
minute from the station well at a thir
ty-foot lift, The cost of Beaumon
crude oil, laid down at Mesilla Park
will be between 3 and 5 cents per gal
Ion. The claims of Fairbanks, Mors'
& Co, for their crude oil engine, if the!
can be su~bstantiated, mean the prac
teal solution of the water question IL
the farming regions of New Mexico
Inc evidence of the company's faitl
in its claims is shown by its agreemen
to install the engine above referred L
on the station farm. Farmers and al
others interested in the water suppl,
in this territory will look forward wit
intense interest to the installation an
running of this plant.
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