The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-27
HE FAvORS BILL
Dyche Hopes Mining Schools
VIII Get Money.
Every State VIII Be Helped
Under New Plan.
HELPS SHOW UP RESOURCES
Investigations Can Be Made by
Federal Funds Use.
Kansas Would Get $4,000
From Uncle Sam.
HELPS SHOW UP RESOURCES

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providing that a portion of the pro-
| ceeds of the sale and lease of public
lands shall be appropriated for the en-
! dowment of schools of mining in each
state.
| Prof. L. L. Dyche. fish and game
warden of Kansas and also a profess
sor in the Kansas university, now in
Washington, is greatly interested in
the measure. If the bill becomes a
| law, Kansas will receive an appropria
| ton of $4,000 for this purpose. The
| initial appropriation is to be $4,000,
with an increase of $4,000 for five
year,.
The money appropriated under
| this BILL said Prof. Dyche to the
State Journal correspondent, lis to be
expended for instruction, research and
experiment in mining, mining machin-
cry, mining engineering, ore treatment,
metallurgy, asSaying, chemistry ana
geology and the best and safest meth
DDS of mining, also concentrating,
smelling and the refining of ores; and
for the study and prevention of ex-
plosions, fires, and to secure the most
intelligent conservation, use and de-
velopment of the mining and mineral
resources of the country to make the
lives of miners more safe, property
in mines more secure, and to promote
the general welfare of mines and OPP
orators of mines.
Helps state to investigate.
The most important part of this
bill will be the opportunity that is af-
forded each state to investigate its
own resources. 1t will provide for as
many centers of investigation as there
are states, and each state Will have
an opportunity to develop its own pc
culiar interests, whether coal, gas oil,
mineral resources, or any such product
as might be manufactured from clayS,
shales and such materials as might be
found in any particular locality, in
Guiding it's quarrieS.
1T will also afford an opportunity
for many of the brightest young men
in the state to take up the work of
study and investigation IN lines thae
are of special value to the state in
which they live. The great value OF
centers of study and investigation of
this kind to the states has already been
demonstrated in the work that is be-
ing done in the several states by their
departments of agriculture, which
have been aided by federal legislation.
with federal legislation that would
provide funds to aid the mining
schools already in existence in the
states, or that would create such
schools in connection with the State
Agriculture colleges, or other state in
situations, it would be possible to de-
velop the state mining interests much
in the same manner that the state
agricultural interests are being so sat
isfactorily developed. One of the wise
provisions of this bill is that it con-
meets these proposed schools for scien-
tific study and Investigations with the
institutions that are already in exis-
tence, thus avoiding any costly or UNI
necessary duplication that might be
necessary if the schools were founded
otherwise than in connection with the
institutions that already have labora-
tory facilities and men and students
already trained for undertaking the
work.
Work Should Be of Value.
1.-THE opportunity thus afforded to
young men for getting an education
in lines above suggested, and that en-
thusiasm engendered by the possibil- |
ity of making valuable discoveries can |
only be appreciated by men who have |
worked in laboratories with students |
who have been guided and directed |
in the fields of original investigation.
With a center for study, experiment
and investigation adapted to the con-
ditions of the state, the results &C
compIished would not only be direct
" applicable, but of the greatest
value to the locality in which the
work has been accomplished
Interest is being manifested in
his bill among the members of con-
yress, especially those from the great
mining states of the country, and even
n states where there is very little
,r no mining, congressman are favor
LbIe to the bill because in all of the
tatGS there are QopOSllS VI Cldys !
hale, stone and many other mineral
INSTANCES that research and expert ,
nent may develop into agencies of
value and profit to the !
but most of them take
arger view than immediate benefits /
o any particular state or industry, \
nd say they are in favor of any kind t
f an educational movement and are {
eady to give it assistance. {
"Of course, the states will bear the t
iv7fo S77s,, n Q
chools of mines just the states f
many times more than I
he government sets aside for the 9
Import of the great agricultural COL I
ages of the nation.
Railroads Depend on Mine.
1.-The preparation of a large num- 7
er of young men at these schools +
f mines in every state in the Union 6
, bound to stimulate the mining in S
ustry and increase the output of the /
hines, for these young men will en- :
ar the mining industry and their in
luence will soon be felt in every
mining field and mining camp in the
ountry with the result that the ton
age of the railroads will be vastly
and the country generally
enefited. Already over so per cent
f the tonnage of the railroads comes
rom the mines.
About all the direct benefit the
,eop1e of the great interior states re-
Give from the congressional appro-
,riations are from the erecting of a
ew public buildings and distribution
# few garden seed, also the annual!
of about $4,000 or
10000 to each state for state agri-
college purposes. These in
erior states get no direct benefit
rom the vast sums appropriated for
ivers and harbors, lighthouses. life
aving stations, coast defenses and
laval expenditures; therefore, all
members of congress from interior
tates should be especially interested