Weekly journal-miner., 1915-07-14

subjects, take them conSecutively.
 A student whose chief aim is pros
 pecting should take courses 1 to 5 or
 6 inclusive. One interested in the
 mechanical end of mining should
 take l3 to Is inc One interested in
 the extraction of metals should take
 6 to 9 inc. or one preparing for pos ] ition as shift boss should take from
 10 to 13 inc. and so on through many combinations. The field will be us
 ed largely as a laboratory and the
 work will be as practical as possible.
 It is expected that men taking any
 of the subjects will have had the
 necessary practical training for that
 work as we would hardly expect to
 efficiently prepare a shoveler in
 Course Y where we could train
 foreman or shift boss.
 This system allows for a more
 efficient training for the men in class
 One, giving the(n a method for more
 rapid advancement at practically no
 cost to them. The University of
 Arizona being a state institution can go ahead on these lines where a privately endowed institution cannot.
 The method for the more efficient preparation for the men outlines as in
 Class 2 offered more difficulties. You could not get far away from the pres ent four year course of the majority of the mining schools. A too broad training only partially fitted them for the niche they were 10 fiji, too practical training was not sufficient to fit them for the work they should be able to do. Here the advantage ous geographical position of Tucson was utilized No city in the United States is better situated as regards, mining practice, smelling practice, milling geological problems, varieties of ores and with good roads and automobile transportation the coun- try is easily accessible.
 The needs for the Class 2 men was not as much an additional quantity of practical training as it was more practical training in successful mines and reduction works, as it is the pos itions of practical men with theoreti- cal knowledge that they will have to fill During the senior year the class es will attend regular college work during the. first half of the week and the last half of the week will be talk en up in the practical application of their theory and taught at successful properties. Cyaniding will be studied at Tombstone, Pearce and Wicken- burg, smelting practice at Douglas, Hayden, Globe and Miami, mining methods at Bisbee, Tombstone, Pearce, Ray and many other places. Orc dressing will be observed at Hay den, Globe and Miami, Notation and | copper teaching may be studied at Ray, Miami and Ajo. This work will not only give the student a more practical insight into the industry he is choosing as his profession, but it will allow him to live in the atmos- phere of the mining industry, to broaden himself by the observation of many types of practice and give him the opportunity to become ac- quainted with the men actively en- gagged in mining.
 The men represented by Class 3 needed research and administration in graduate school and to this end has been organized the Arizona State Bureau of Mines, a research bureau, and a graduate department'i in mining | and engineering administration. The men represented in this group will have passed through the stages of the first and second group, will have had their practical training and will be ready to specialize and train for the uppermost rungs of the ladder.
 It has been the one idea of the Arizona College Of Mines to be of the greatest possible service to the industry within the state and evidence of the appreciation of that service is amply shown by the greeting they have extended to us in our new de parture. A careful study of the needs of the industry has brought out plan which will serve all ends of the industry and the laboring men al though it is radical departure from the heretofore stereotyped form of mining education.