Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-03-04

institution are taking this practical
work I'm domestic science.
The recent organization of the mill
t tary department of the college is an
excellent feature. The department has
been organized under the instruction
of a regular United States army officer
detailed by the government, without
expense to the college, and the benefits
of the work to the institution are no.
ticed in the erect bearing and excellent
physical. condition of the young men
attending the college. This department
is receiving $4,000 worth of equip
ment. ordnance, and ordnance stores,
which are furnished by the govern
ment at Washington upon the condi-
ton only that our territory provided
proper facilities for caring for and
properly storing such equipment.
Attendance.
Your committee was greatly sur
prised to find so large an attendance of
students in the college. 1t was fur
nished with a detailed list showing the
name, age, grade, and home address
of every student enrolled during the
past year in the college and we are,
therefore, able to speak from definite
knowledge of the present attendance
at the institution. The total enroll
ment of students during the past year
has been 307. OF these, 21S are boys
and SO girls, and 243 of these students,
or more than four-ffths of the entire
enrolment, live in New Mexico. That
the college is drawing its students
from the territory at large is shown
by the fact that of these. more than
th~ree-fourths, namely, 135 boys and 81
girls, come from outside the vicinity
of the college. Moreover, the age of
the students shows that the college is
not doing public school work, but that
the students are uniformly young men
and young women being prepared for
| the active duties of life, the average
age of the students being about is
e years. The present enrolment of stud
e ents in the college is very much great
er than ever before in past years.
Work of the Departments.
From a careful examination into thu
daily work being done in the various
l. departments of the college, your con
d mittee was very much impressed wit
st it's practical features. We found a
IL examples of this the splendid
re equipped mechanical engineering dc
IN partment, in which upwards of fort
n young men were doing actual practices
he work in drawing, machine work, ca
mt pentry, blacksmithing, and forging
We found that the work of the stenos
ra- raphy department of the institution
Ia training stenographers in both Englis
and Spanish was increasing rapidly
scope, and the institution has recent
M received communications from mo
de- than 1850 persons in this and 9th,
he countries who are inquiring about II
In work of this department. The COLES
on has far more applications on file fl
m English-Spanish stenographers to {
APP out to positions than it has qualifie
persons ready to go out.
ew Pumping for Irrigation.
.ng Your committee was greatly il
the pressed by the work being done for Il
ust college at large by that departme
md known as the experiment station. II
&C various departments of the station a
idi- pear to be doing their utmost to bene
the farmers and the agricultural int,
cry ests of our territory in the most prf
the teal manner. A number of importa
Tor lines of work to the territory are und
rae investigation but one of these will
eiul l~ustrate the importance of all. 70
stlc committee spent some time eXamini
ON the work so much commented up
to- which the institution is doing in de
the onstrating the possibility of irrigati
ent. by pumping. In this connection
can truly say that seeing is believin
and without actually seeing the VIC
- the college is doing in this line it
difficult to realize its success and
%portance. From a six-inch well, su
AS feet deep in the ground, the cost
which did not exceed $50, your co
mittee watched a continuous flow
ily. over 1000 gallons a minute bel
thrown from a six-inch pipe. TT
quantity of water is sufficient to fill
good sized irrigating ditch and viii
ans. rigate, every two weeks three inrh
TOD- pNNpt w VI
/ Is found that the college has beer ca
the fully recording extensive data IN G.
up reCtlcn with the testing of variC
? y. pumps on this well, and it has b
!, ,s demonstrated that the farmer
ade. probably irrigate his land at an
The pense of from so to 60 cents an a
very for each irrigation; the results of
Easy experiments conducted are publis
in bulletins which are distributed
the territory nee of cost.
Support Of the Institution.
Most departments of the college
well equipped with apparatus, and
chinery, due TO the support the il
tuition receives from the United Sta
ana government. The funds received f
n so the government, however, are gran