, 1906-01-23
FOR
SCHOOLS
PROVISIONS OF THE MoNDELL
BILL APPRoPRlATlNG MONEY
FOR MINING COLLEGES.
Ten Thousand a Year to Start With
and to Be Increased Thousand Dol
lars a Year for Ten Years, to Be
Used in Providing Instruction In
Mining and Experiments.

The Mondell bill, introduced into the
house or representatives by Hon. Frank
w. Mondell of Wyoming, appropriates
5000 per year with an annual mere
ment of $1,000 until $4,000 is reached
for the benefit of mining and agricul-
tural schools, says General Frank Hall
in the Denver Post. Section 2 of the
bill reads as follows.
THAT said appropriation shall be ex-
pended only for instruction, research
and experiment in mining. Mining ma
chinery with the applications of cleo
tricity thereto), mining engineering,
mine exploitation, metallurgy, chemis-
try, geology. forestry, agricultural en-
cheering and road making. irrigation
and irrigation engineering, and the
branches of learning pertaining to said
subjects, including the various
branches of mathematics, physical, nat
ural and economic science, and the ia
~cilities for such instruction, research
and experiment in order to promote a
liberal, practical education therein, and
to secure the most intelligent conserya-
ton, use and development of the min
eral resources and water supply of the
country"
In states where both the mining and
agricultural schools are under a single
governing board, as in a state uniyer-
lsity, the total amount goes to the uni
~versity for use in both the mining and
agricultural schools; in states where
the mining and agricultural schools are
distinct the amount is divided equally
between them.
The leaders of mining education, as
well as the leaders of the mining in
dustry, are anxious to see this bill be-
come a law, because the state mining
schools are called upon to provide an
education that, in both quality and
quantity, is beyond their present pow
er to provide. Since both mining and
agriculture lie at the foundation of ma
tional prosperity, it seems both wise
and proper for the government to con-
tinue its aid to the agricultural col
leges, and at the same time to initiate
a policy of financial assistance to the
mining schools. The history, both of
industry and of education from the
first land act, shows conclusively that
governmental aid to education is one
of the wisest and best methods of pub
lie expenditures.
The Mondell bill is so framed as to
be helpful to a considerable number
of educational subjects which now re-
ceive no national aid whatever, and is
therefore meeting with widespread APP
proval. 1t has the endorsement of the
American Association of State Mining
Schools, of the American Mining con-
gress, of the Agricultural College as
sociation and Of the Association of
State Universities. Twice it has been
reported favorably to the house of rep
resentatives by the committee on mines
and mining and doubtless will be so re-
ported at the present session, as it is
understood that practically all the
members of the committee are favor
able to it.
Should the Mondell bill become a
law the mining schools will be great
ly aided in accomplishing for the min.
ing industry results similar to those
accomplished by the agricultural col
Ileges for agriculture. DR.. Victor c..
Anderson, president of the Colorado
school of mines at Golden, is profound
ly interested il the passage OF the bill,
because it will Immediately open to
the great school in his charge almost
numberless opportunities for extending