The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-09-02

mechanical engineering was gwen at the
IF It be Insisted that the engineering
courses are Older in the college than in
the university. then we have this interest
five years according 70 MIR. Porter has
165 college students; whereas the Agricul-
tural college In all its departments, after
dents, and third Of those would not
rank as college students In the School OF
Mines.
Land for Agriculture.
The college alumni assert that If combi-
nation were effected the university would
not have enough land for the work of ag-
riculture. The Agricultural college now
has Ill acres of partly billy and graVeily
soil in a climate that is not representa-
tive of the state; the university has "
acres. every part but one or two acres
level all fertile, available for any agri
cultural use whatsoever, and now sup
porting substantial lawns and thrifty
mings. director of nature study. states
that the soil is Of the highest fertility,
well adapted TO all purposes or experiment
and investigation
Their Plan Examined.
The College alumni say in conclusion:
1.-The assessed valuation Of the state
is now about SAG, 900 600. A one and one
half mill tax on this property would
yield S2100 900 annually. This would pro-
vide for both institutions. Can we afford
it? 1t means that every taxpayer would
pay $1.50 on every 900 of assessed val
uation of HIS property for the support of
the two schools; and If 1t were decided
that the university should have nine
tenths and the Agricultural college six
tenths of MILL ii means that 80 cents
OF the $50 would go to the support of
the university, and go cents to the col
lege."
No, one and one-half mill tax would
not be sufficient. neither should the d.
vision be nineteenth of a mill TO the
university and six-tenths of a mill to
the college. The college asked for $2S2 100
at the last legislature; the university for
1926. 431 exclusive of the branch normal.
which asked for $4,000. a total of $617 6H
for two years. or $3OS $40 per year needed
at that time, to say nothing Of the
which will far outstrip the growth of
wealth and population. The college es-
innate Of Mr.. Porter for the great future
is exactly $114.190 less than was asked
for by the college for the present two
years. The total annual income of the
college according to their plans, would
be about $4,000. The income of the uni
versity on the same basis would be S126-
600 from the state and about $4,000 from
the land fund. a total of $146,00 Yet
the Agricultural college has one school
and the university has three. In Colo
RADIO these schools are separate For
the two years preceding January, 1905,
the Colorado university received $3.50, 600;
the State School of Mines, $1S9, 554. IS; the
State Normal school. S13O. OOO-a total for
the three schools of $549, 554 Sc. The funds
Of the three schools Of the University
of Colorado have TO the funds OF the
Colorado Agricultural college (s130, $40
about the proportion of four 10 one. Yet
the Utah college alumni propose incomes
of $4,000 to the university and $4,000
TO the college The university is not one
school, but three-the college of arts and
science. the state school of mines, and
the state normal school. Either of these
should be as important in this state as
the Agricultural college, while the third
should be more so.
Mr.. Porter maintains that the univer-
sity, while II receives from the state
nearly twice the amount received from
the state by the college, has only had
an average of 80 per cent more students
than the college, Both statements are
misleading. The second ignores the dis
tinction between the grade of students,
times as many college grade students as
the college has. The first ignores the
amount received each year by the col
lege from the federal government-$25,OO 900
for Institutional purposes, $4,000 for eX
perimental purposes. and over $1,000 in
interest from the land fund-a total of
SOL. 900 annually, while the amount from
the last named source will rapidly in
crease. Add this total 70 the amounts
received from the legislature, and il is
clear that the college has had far more
versity, which has never yet asked the
state for as much as it has reasonably
needed for higher education, but has
done it's best with what the regents
have estimated the state could reason
ably afford.