The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-15
SCHOOL OF MINING
LATURE WILL SURELY
CREATE ONE
WILL BE LOCATED AT RANGE
Is u Much-Needed Institution. and
Would Do Much to Further
Mining Interests of
Minnesota.

J. Adam Bede just dropped into St.
Paul yesterday, having left his congress
sional boom alone long enough to re-
mark to Bob Dunn that the proposition
to annex Great Britain and free Ireland
is meeting with much favor everywhere.
to give Dairy Commissioner Mcconnell
a few tips on the gentle American cow,
and to talk school consolidation with
Supt. Olsen.
Mr.. Bede is very hopeful politically,
and feels sure that the primary election
law, which he calls the Marconi system
of wireless politics." is going to help
him in his fight for congress.
Mr.. Bede is greatly interested in the
proposition to establish a school of mines
in st. Louis county, having inspired the
bill for that institution which was in
troduced at the extra session of the leg
islature. Speaking of it, ne said:
The value of such an institution can
hardly be oVereStimated, and there will
be no opposition to it, unless, perhaps,
from the state university, which has a
department devoted to mining. 1t is very
essential that such a school should be
located in or near 4 mining region SO
that the students may nave practical
experience in the mines. 1t is probable
that it will be located at some point
other than Duluth; a town adjacent to
some underground mine would be most
eilgfble-Tower, Hfbbing or Virginia and
indeed any town on either of the ranges
may aspire to the honor of securing the
school. Houghton, Mich, has similar
institution, and the students there are
scarcely permitted to finish their course
of study before they are engaged by the
various mining companies of that state.
Duluth is a much more important mining
center than any other city in the W est,
and it is only fitting that it should have
established near at hand a school that
would do much to further the mining
interests of this state.
Bring 1t Before Public.
1t was not expected that the bill INTRO
duced this winter would be passed at the
special session, but it was thought de-
sirable to get the subject before the pub
lie, that the advantages of such a school
would be more fully understood. There
is little doubt that this bill or one SINH
lar to it will be passed at the next regu-
lar session of the legislature, and we
therefore give notice to the range towns
to decide among themselves which ole
shall secure this new acquisition or st.
Louis county. With a normal school in
Duluth and q mining school On the range
our people would surely feel that they
had been justly treated by the state, and
the enmity long existing between tHe
mining and farming districts OF Mime
sofa would be forever removed. Ihere
had been some thought of changing the
normal school into school Oh mines,
but the growing Importance OF the nead
of the lakes makes Duluth entitled to
an educational institution, and as provi-
sion has been made to open the normal
School, it was thought not too much
to ask our farmer friends to give us q
mining school as well. We thank them
in advance for the appropriation which
they will make next winter, and assure
them that when they have flood or
drought and need seed wheat for their
crops. all they will need to do will te to
cali upon their friends in the Zenith City.