Bisbee daily review., 1908-02-07
THE BsBEE DAILY REVIEW BsBE ARIZONA FRIDAY MORNING.
OF MINES
 FLOURISHlNG.

may be interpreted toI mean real gain over two years ago, of about thirty per cent in the total registration for this year
 The accommodations of the School of mines and of the university as a whole. vii. be much increased during the next two years by the construc- tion of a new building for the depart ment of physics. chemistry, botany, zoology and mineralogy The last leg islature appropriated the sum of s40,OOO for this purpose, and construc- ton will be begun early in the spring, with the expectation of occupying the building in 1909. These departments are already crowded in their present quarters, and their removal win bring relief to other departments. Additions to the engineering equipment for min ing engineering, metallurgy, civil en- gineering and mechanical engineering. are made each year from the Morril fund of S25.OO0 per year, and from the Nelson fund of S500O (whicn will in- crease by $500 a year. until it reaches $25,0O0 a year), both granted by the federal government, so that in few years the equipment of the School of Mines will excelI that of any of the lneighboring states and territories, save California. once more Arizona will be able to congratulate herself on the wisdom of the men who shaped the early educational policy of the terri tory, and who united in one institu- ton all the various schools and de arements,-letters, science, agricul- ture, mining, and engineering; in place of several weak, struggling, warning institutions, there is one, already strong and yearly growing stronger to serve the needs of the territory. l In the School of Mines, the admin istration of the university gives evi- dence of its determination to make the institution as thoroughly helpful to the predominant interest of the territory
 as some of the college organized un,
 der the same act in purely agricultur;
 al states, like the Dakotas, have made themselves all but indispensable to the farming interests. Nor is this aim lconfined merely to producing capable
 engineers and metallurgists, to meet the present demands, which far out ! run the supply of men available fol Appointment; :. the faculty of the scnoo is trying to keep in close touch with the men in the field, and to help then solve their problems, by investigations in the laboratory and in the mine. The department of geology and mining, fol
 example, is in frequent consultation with men who are prospecting, or who
 are developing properties, and so is
 able to take advanced students out
 on excursions to places which will of
 fer the best illustrations for the lect
 ures and laboratory work.
 On the side of metalurgy and mill
 work, the School of Minds is equipped
 with crushers, pulverizefs, samplers,
 tables, screens, filter presses, etc, of the latest design, as well as with five
 stamp and three-stamp mills, all driv,
 en by electricity; it has two cyanide plants for treating small lots of ore,
 and for assaying it has a very com
 piete outfit of furnaces, balances, and apparatus for ,electrolysis, which en-
 able ti to do the most exactingly ae.
 curate work.
 I The museum and library, housed in
 a handsome brick, stone, and tile
 building, are excellent working collec- tions, continually in use by faculty and , students. The collection of minerals of Arizona, largely the work of Pro