Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1912-01-19
Mining for Practical Men

State College, Pullman, Wash,
Jan. 11--Designed for metal and coal
miners, and prospectors, mine fore
men, mine managers, and business
men interested in mining, the II
weeks course in mining, with an av-
erage living and tuition cost of SIS
for each student, opened at the State
College in Pullman on January s,
and lasts until April 5. The object
of the College in offering these
courses is to assist mature men in
terested in mining, who have not the
time, or, perhaps, the preliminary
training necessary to enter the four
year course in mining and metal
lurgy, and still desire to balance
their practical education in mining
with some of the more important
theories and technicalities that the
well equipped laboratories and the
efficient corps of instructors offer
at the State College Winter School.
In addition to the work in the
Winter School the regular lectures of
any of the departments of the Col
lege are open to these students.
Opportunities are many for spe-
cialization along any desired line,
not only in the lecture and laboratory
work, but by the excellent library ia
cilities of the institution, which in
clude practically all the standard
works on mining and metallurgy in
the English language, together with
current numbers and bound files of
all important mining and technical
journals. The lectures and labora-
tory work are so divided that the
best possible results come to the
student.
Following is an outline of the lee
ture courses offered
General Mining and Metallurgy
One lecture per day (a) Pros
pecting and Developing; (b) Mining
Meth DDS; &C. Mining Machinery; cd
Ore Treatm ent
Geology
Two lectures per week on the
causes leading to the present form
and structure of the earth, with
study of the different classes of rock
mineral veins, fossils, and other
features of interest to the miner.
Coal Mining
Two lectures per day: ca Pros
pecting for Coal; o. Methods of
Tunneling and Shaft Making; (c)
Methods of Working; I'D Haulage
and Hosting; (e) Ventilation; (G
Explosives; Co Gases and Explo-
siOns; CHI Screening and Washing
of Coal, Making of Coke. Etc.
An exceptionally strong field of
work is provided for in the labor
atory courses.
AsSaying
Three afternoons per week, in
which the methods of assaying gold,
silver and lead ores and furnace pro-
ducts by the fire assay are taught.
After the student has mastered as
saying, he is instructed in methods
of testing ores for their adaptibility
to amalgamation, cyanidation, con-
centration, smelling, etc.
Chemistry
Three morning per week: Quanti-
tive determinations of copper, lead,
Iron, zinc, silica, etc, are made.
MineralOgy
Two morning each week are de-
voted to the study of the more COM
monty occurring metals, minerals,
with methods of Identification by
blowpipe, crystal form, etc.
Surveying
Four afternoons each week for
coal miners, and one afternoon each
week for metal miners. Thorough
courses given in surveying and map
ping workings, surface traverses,
care and adjustment of instruments,
etc.
Mechanical Drawing
Two mornings each week, with
special attention given to lettering
and drawing of mine machinery.