El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-23
MAY Yet Get Mines School
Representative Burgess says Other
Property Than Military Institute
Will Answer; Little Interviews.

T FL PasO does not prOFlue the
Military Institute or other build
4 ings and grounds as the nucleus
for the newly created Texas School Of
Mines, some other city or town in the
state will get this important branch
of the University of Texas.
This is representative Richard F.
Burgess warning to the people OF II
Paso, who have not yet complied with
the provisions of the school OF mines
bill. recurring the donation OF suitable
buildings and grounds. Mr.. Burgess
adds that if there is any controversy
over the selection of the Military In
stitute buildings and grounds, others OF
equal value will be acceptable to the
IN the first place" Representative
Burgess says, the people OF FL PaSo
should not underestimate the value OF
the school of mines to the city, for II
means the establishment of a branch
of the University of Texas The his
tory of every one of the states higher
institutions of learning, including the
A & NJ college, the medical scnOoI at
Galveston and the five state normal
schools, is a history of constant growth,
almost every succeeding legislature mas
provided some new building and ex-
tended the activity of the institution
in some way, until the institution
which always makes a beginning IN
small way, at the end of a lew years
has grown into a great one with many
buildings and hundreds OF pupils and
becomes a prime factor in the business
ana educational life of the town or
city where it is located.
1T should be borne in mind that the
city OF ii PasO, being required to pro-
vide a site and certain buildings for
the school of mines is asked to do
only the same thing that all other
communities in the state have willing
~ done at the time they secured the
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many cases the donation on the part OF
the city and town has been greater
than that required Of FL PasOs although
the institutions were located in towns
very much smaller than FL PasO- The
stockholders of the military institute
are not asking to be paid anything for
their stock, but there is a mortgage
against the property of something like
$4,000 and the stockholders do not
Ieel that they can afford TO- or ought
TO, donate without the aid Of the rest
of the community, such large sum-
in addition to the money already put
up L am not and never have been
SrOcknOlder IN IN the military INSTITUTE
The bill as passed by the legisla-
ture DEGREES the establishment Of a
school Of mines for the state Of Texas.
The law provides that such a school
shall be established IN or near the city OF
FL PasO. provided the citizens of the
city of FL PaSO' shall meet the states
requirements If the people OF FL PasO
do not do this, then they viii have no
just complaint If the state establishes
the Institution where IL can get a suit
able donation The state viii be pur-
suing the policy followed in locating all
of the other state Institutions, and we
will have no one but ourselves TO
blame In my opinion few greater Op-
pOrtunities have ever come TO this city,
and yet il looks as If FL PasO was go
ing to throw away the opportunity"
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legislature at the eleventh hour is what
representative Eugene Harris objects
to in the conduct Of the states deliber-
alive body Representative Harris re-
turned Friday morning from Austin at
ter attending the special, so day ses-
sion of the legislature
Il voted no on the peniteniary bill
and the blue sky bill" he says An
that I could learn Of either was what
I could gather when it was read al the
last minute. The clause in the blue
sky bill making it necessary for min
ing man to bond his mine TO guaran-
tee production, was enough to make
me vote against the bill as represent
west Texas, with its mining interests
and could not afford to vote for a bin
which curtailed the development of our
mineral resources The Whitley amend
meGt 20 the penitentiary bill was what
I objected TO most This provided that
80 percent of the profits of the peni-
tentiaries should be distributed among
the CO4h4GLS DuL there was no pLU-
vision made for a sinking fund, and,
should the prisons OF the state go IN
the hole one year and then clear $4,000
the next year, 80 percent Of this
amount would have to be divided
among the cOnvicts, regardless of the
former years deficit
Mar Wing kee, mayor Of Chinatown
in FL PasO, has a new plan for collect
ing fares on street cars On a Mex
leo car he said Thursday morning: I
would put a scale on the cars and
everyone would have to drop in a coin
before he could enter the car Per-
sons weighing so pounds would have
to drop in ? 1-2 cents, those Weighing
100 would have to drop in a nickel and
those weighing 200 would have to drop
10 cents in the scale box before they
could enter the car. Then they would
not need any conductors"
Complaining that many valuable dogs
are being killed by the city dog killers
E L Allen says he has been asked by
a number Of dog owners TO take means
of stopping it My dog Don a prize
winner. has been poisoned" he said.
and 1 have had a number of people
come to me and say that their dogs
have been killed for no good cause