Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-05-17
State BUILDING
! MADE AUXILIARY
TO SCHOOLS
Children Of San Diego Visit
New Mexico Exhibit Under
Direction Of Teachers and
Learn Much.

San Diego. Calf, May lG.--ln a
very modest, and at the same time,
o very effective way the New Mexico
building at the Panama California
exposition Is being made an auxiliary
to the educational institutions OF this
city.
School children of all ages visit the
building and the large variety OF cx-
hibits are explained to them, either
hy their teachers or the attaches of
the btIllding7~sometil both.
The higher grades especially are
making valuable use Of the opportu-
nifty TO study ethnology, mineralogy,
and other "oloeies' in more capti-
waiting way than by reading dry-as-
dust text books.
Pupils of the Union high school In
this city, one OF the largest high
schools in the country. with an en-
rollment OF nearly thirteen hundred
students, are applying themselves
very systematically TO their investiga-
tions, and every ten days a large De-.
tachment accompanied by their pro-
fessors, spend q good part OF a day
In and around the building.
Indians Are studied.
For the first two or three visits. the
students devoted themselves To the
Indians of New Mexico, their modes
OF life, industries. Games, etc, study
OF which Is made interesting and in
structive by the colored slides and
motion picture reels illustrating the
lectures delivered in the auditorium
Of the building.
At present. the pupils are deep IN
mineralogy and taking a keen inter-
est in the exhibits of the mineral
wealth Of the state The state book,
New Mexico. the Land OF Opportu-
nifty" has been made text book for
use in the class rooms Of the nigh
school, and for supplementary read
ing.
Close attention Is paid by the boys
and girls to the lecture by Waldo
G. Twitchell, on the Mogollon mining
district, In which large number OF
colored slides are used. ana four
reels Of motion picture films.
This lecture IL devoted to an ex-
position OF the coal. copper, lead, and
zinc mining in the state, and the
smelling industries connected with
the same. After the lecture, the pro-
fessors In charge of the classes ex-
plain all the minerals on exhibition,
! their geological formation, where
lfound. etc, and combine their study
I of minerals In New Mexico with those
found in California and other states,
for which purpose visits are made to
the state building.
The samples Of gold from the Mo-
gollon district, and the methods OF
mining, are compared with gold min
ing on the Mother Lode In California,
as shown In the sacramento building;
the gold mining OF Nevada, as shown
| in that states building. also is COM
! pared
Samples of copper in the ore and
in the matter, after smeltin9 are
shown, those from Chino, N. M, be-
ling placed alongside similar exhibits
from Anaconda and Butte, In the
Montana building. just across the
/ Via de los Estados and other sam
pies from Bingham canyon. at the
| Utah building.
The high school instructors are
making use of very up-to-date meth
DDS, combining their own with ideas
evolved by Col Ralph Emerson
fTwitchell, in presenting New Mex
jico's interests in concrete form.
The next step in the little journeys
will be a study of agricultural meth
dds practiced in New Mexico; then
education and forestry
Stairs No Hlndranee.
II is usually difficult in this age
OF onervaiing appliances such as ele-
vators. to induce persons 90 climb
stairs, and they do so reluctantly
either for business or pleasure, but
visitors to the New Mexico building
lat the Panama California exposition
are not in that class At least that is
/ the case when they are informed by
one of the guides that an interesting
exhibit Of the work done by the for
est service in New Mexico, may be
seen on the second floor, adjoining
| the hall Of governors.
|, Having mounted the few steps, they
find themselves amply repaid by
what they see, as well as by what
| they hear from the lips of the at
Itache of the national forest service,
who Interestingly describes every de-
tail from the various items in the
paraphernalia of forest fire lighters
TO the broad conception Of the con-
servation Of resources, which leads
the federal government to spend
money with o lavish hand in order to
save valuable timber. and TO rescue
rich agricultural tracts from the
waste of erosion. following deforesta-
ton.
Forest Service Information.
Even the average intelligent tour
list from New Mexico learns here for.
the first time, that there are nine
national forests in his state, COM
! prislng a gross area of approximate.
/ ~ 100000 acres. and hearing q
/ timber stand of 1900, 100000 board
feet of lumber and other forest pro-
| duots-hgures which stagger ordi-
lRary mortals. M
New Mexico forms practically all
of District No. 3, in the forest SER
tyiee of the department of agriculture,
/ and the areas administered by this
service are estimated TO have a pres
/ ent productive capacity OF about S0-
| 600, 900 board feet of lumber, which
will increase with the practice of bet
ter methods OF MANAGEMENT.
1t is shown how the greatest en-
envy of the timber and water supply
of New Mexico Is FIRE. which annual-
Is destroyed millions of feet OF lum-
Der, before the. creation, Of the ma
4 tional forests. Models are shown OF
4 the lookout towers. trails and other
aparatus-~telephon lines, helio-
graphs. etc.-by means OF which the
forest rangers are able to detect and
reach fires promptly, over 30 per
cent being eXtingHished before they
| have covered as much as ten acres,
| An interesting 0lffxe. ~ exhfhstad