The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-04-07
SPEAKS WELL OF FULTON,
The Pioneer-Times Gives a Clear
Account Of Changes Here,

!Ao 1u)uoeT- INES tlVoS a Cloar
Account Of Changes Here.
Prof. Fulton was in Deadwood the
first of the month on business, and
was interviewed by reporter OF
that city, and the following gives a
clear idea of the changes that will
take place:
although it was the intention OF
the state regents of education OF
South DAKOTA, in nominating new
men for the presidencies of the state
university, the state Agricultural
College, and the state School of
Mines, that the changes should oc
cur with the beginning of the next
calendar year, it is quite likely that
the new presidents will assume their
stations at the close Of the present
school year, in order that they may
properly organize their working
forces by the time the next school
year begins.
"Dr. r. L. Slagle, who has been
present at the School of Mines in
Rapid City sever al years, is to sue
ceed DR.. Chalmers as president OF
the agricultural college, when the
latter goes to the head of the state
university, and Prof. Charles H.
Fulton, instructor in mining and
metallurgy at the School of Mines,
will become the president of the
school. Prof. Fulton said he and
DR.. Slagle had accepted their new
appointments, and were preparing
for the transfers.
Prof. Fulton will not give up his
met:llurgical work at the school OF
mines, although there will probably
be new instructor in mining to
take his place when he assumes the
executive Office at the school. He
said yesterday that he would rather
not be president OF the school thar
be compelled to give up his classes
in metallurgy, and the fact that ht
will remain at the head of that de
partment will be gratifying to the
people of the Black Hills who are in
terested in metallurgy, for he hal
proven an important factor in tina
field, working out number of knot
ty problems and conveying mucl
valuable information in the bulletin
he has been publishing.
He said that there would be al
increase in the size of the school O
mines faculty next year, and he ex
poets the school to receive improves
equipment before the next year be
gins. Among other things it is pro
posed to install new assay labora
tory in the present quarters, and +
replace much of the present obso
lete and worn out material, an az
preparation having been made b.
the recent South Dakota legislator
for that purpose, This appropria
tion was not as large as the schoc
! management and the regents ha
desired, nor, in fact, as large as th
school actually requires, but it vii
enable the faculty to make som
steps in the direction of putting i
an entire new lot OF working appl
: ances.
: "The attendance at the school {
mines this year is about lis, tha
: being about what it was year ago
e There will be four members of tn
graduating class this year, who wi
leave the school fully qualified a
mining engineers.
a "Only two classes have reall
graduated from this school before
! and they were small classes. A larg
!, number OF young men have take
e courses at the school that have er
e ableo them to make themselves use
S full in the business of mining an
milling, but they did not complet
the full mining course, and, conse
= quently, did not receive diplomas.
q "After this year the size OF tb
. graduating classes will becom
n steadily larger from year to veal
o as there are unusually large junior
d