The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1907-09-27
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NO.
THE STATE SCHOOL OF MINES.
Opens School Year Under Pleasing
Conditions,

The State School of Mines opened
Sept. Is, for the school year 1908
During the summer, work has been
progressing on the reconstruction Of
the metallurgical laboratory; the
building of the engine house at the
power plant and the Improvement Of
the campus. The reconstruction OF
the metallurgical laboratory will
probably take most of the year, as IT
is the desire to install a laboratory
second to none in this country. Part
of the old machinery will be reset,
as stamps, grinding pans, copper
blast furnace, Bruckner roasting fur
nace. blower, etc., and new machinery
will be added as rapidly as it can be-
Installed All apparatus in the lab
oratory will be operated by electric
power which is to be furnished by
SO XIV turbine generating set from
the General Electric company. This
machinery is already on its way and
Will be set up shortly. A new Inger-
sol-Sargent compressor and air drill
have also been purchased and will be
Installed directly. che purchase OF
a complete cyanide plant, including
Buffers filtration apparatus and tube
mill is under consideration Gates
& Blake crushers, crushing rolls.
screens. jigs, concentrating tables,
etc, will also be put In during the
year. All told, the laboratory win
be very efficient for theoretic and
practical work in metallurgy.
The registration at the school is
satisfactory, particularly in numbers
OF the Freshman class. The. new
class numbers at present IA repre-
senting chiefly the eastern part Of
the state the Black Hills and Colo
rado. The Sophomore, Junior and
Senior classes are we'll formed and
strong and ten men expect to gain;
the B. s. degree at the end OF the
year. The Preparatory department, !,
which, as Is we'll known has dropped;
It's business course, now offers !lsr
Il Scientific preparatory course pre-
pairing for entrance into the School
of Mines, and a college preparatory
course, preparing for entrance gem
orally into college. Most OF the stu
dents in the Preparatory department
are candidates for entrance into the
School of Mines, which Of course is
very gratifying. In considering the
attendance of the School of Mines, IL
must be borne in mind that In col
legiates work, the school oEers only
one course, that of Mining Engineer
Ing with the allurgical option ana
that dts preparatory department 3is
mainly for the purpose OF preparing
for the taking up of this work. When
4 this fact is considered, it is very
plain that the attendance Of a tech
nical school like that Of the Shooi
OF Mines can never be equal to- that
/, Of University or that OF an Agri-
cultural College where a multiplicity
OF courses is offered, including Civil,
Electrical, Mechanical Engineering,
Arts, Medicine, Law, Music, etc. &
Amongst the new members Of the
[ faculty is Mr.. Herbert A. Sturgis, M.
A., from Oberlin College, Ohio, who
instructs in Physics and Mr.. Chris
tlan Trystad, M. A., from the Uniyer-
sity Of Minnesota, who teaches Latin
and German; otherwise the faculty
/ is the same as last year. The School
!. Of Mines ds well known for It's high
j, standards. Its diploma from the Pre-
i paratory Department admits students
into most of the eastern colleges
without examination. The value of
I It's 3. s. degree in mining engineer
{ ing is we'll recognized In the mining
profession for all graduates to date
have found no trouble in obtaining
employment, upon graduation.