Bisbee daily review., 1908-06-12
 GIFT FROM
 PROE. DOUGLAS
Donation of $l0, 900 From the Head of Phelps Dodge h.. tereStS To Help School of Mines.

In his commencement address of the Arizona university on Wednesday evening last, Prof Babcock in sub stance said:
 Tt is the hope of the university that the admirable work which the agricultural experiment station Is car rying on in this particular field may be duplicated in engineering lines. and the prospect for such develop ment Is measurably near. Could open my hand tonight would show you a handsome gift recently made i to the university for this very pur- ' pose, but announcement of this must ! be made later"
 The explanation of this comes in the following:
 To the Board of Regents of the Uni 1 versity of Arizona, to whom these presents shall come, greeting.-
 Know ye, that I, James Douglas, of the city, county ana state Of New | York, in consideration of these pres ents and the due acceptance of the trust therein and thereby created have given and granted and by these presents GJ give and grant to the | board of regents of the University or l Arizona, trustees, and it's successors, ! III lOISNCIs llE Sul1A O4 NSh ! thousand dollars in United States currency, the annual interest or in- ! come rom which is to be annually ' applied, devoted, expended and used by said board of regents, or it's sue ! cessors in trust, for the purchase of instruments of precision and research or special apparatus, for scientiHc in- struction and education in the depart ment of mineralogy and school of mines of the University of Arizona, which said department is created and | established by. the laws of the terri tory of Arizona and in which said ! board of regents is empowered by said laws to prescribe the course of instruction, but no part of said fund Or income Is to be used or applied to the purchase of mining or metallur- gical machinery or supplies for said ! iepartment, or for the use of the students in the chemical and metal lurgical laboratories.
 The said board of regents Is au- thorized and instructed to invest the 2. game. MT. O'Donovan has just re legal control, of said trustees in any national, state, territorial or munich pal bonds; and said board, and it's successors in trust, may from time to lime vary or transpose such securi' ties for others of any nature hereby authorized.
 In witness wherof I have hereunto or income from said fund shall not have been expended in any one year,
 for the purpose herein authorized, the
 said board or it's successors in trust,
 may either continue the same in the !, interest fund, derived from said in I . T rNh unexpended interest or income to the principal sum of said fund, to be con-
 stituted a part of said fund and to be
 devoted to the purpose of providing additional income to be expended for the purpose herein authorized. !, In witness whereof hvae hereunto
 set my hand and seal, this 29th, day
 of May, A. D. 1908.
 JAMES DOUGLAS, L. s. Attestation O. the gift was made
 before a notary in Fl Paso, Texas. Under date of June the board of I regents met and formally accepted the deed Of gift and acknowledged the receipt of the money as follows: T Now, therefore, be 1t resolved, that the trust created in and by the said deed of gift and deVolved upon the
 board of regents of the University of Arizona upon its acceptance of the
 same, be, and the same is, hereby ac'
 cepted by the said board of regents,
 and the receipt of the said sum of ten thousand dollars mentioned in
 said deed of gift is hereby acknowl' edged by said board, and the secre- tary of said board Is hereby directed
 to communicate to Dr. James Douglas
 the action of the board of regents of
 the University of arizona in the
 premises on this third day of June, A. D. 1908.