The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-07-26
OUTLOOK FOR MINING AT THE
STATE UNIVERSITY.

In view of the hostility of Governor
alexander to the mining department
of the state university, 1t Is encourage
ing at least to find that the new COM
missioner of education, DR.. Bryan, Is
a man Of vision sufficiently broad to
appreciate the Importance of mining
in Idaho and to look forward to maxi
Ing Moscow the center of mining
educational institution that will at
tract students from all parts of the
country and that will cover every
branch of mining ACTIVITY and kindred
industries. 1t is no impractical vision
that DIR. Bryan outlines in the follow
ing paragraph:
1.-THE pages of ldaho's mining history
are the pages of one of the worlds
great romances. Instead of pitiful
handful of students of mining we
ought, In view of the worlds need to-
day and it's demand today for mining
products, to have vast number of
students flocking here from all parts
of the United States for instruction in
mining. Not Lehgh and the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology but
Moscow should be the place for great
school of mines; and | think the boa rd
will not be remiss in seeking the
means to fulfill Idaho's duty to the
world of mining. And we will try to
give this term that broad significance
which makes 1t include other mineral
products-clays, for which we already
have name, lime and cement, potash
deposits, building stone and other
purely mineralized products which
man needs"
There is no state in the Union that
compares with Idaho in the possession
of all the natural elements necessary
to bring about the full realization of
DIR. Bryan's forecast. a fact upon
which he Is quite as well informed as
II he had long been a resident of the
state. He was for many years at the
: head of the Washington state college
at Pullman, almost on the state line
and less than ten miles from Moscow
AS the head of a rival institution, he
had occasion to inform himself on the
resources back of the Idaho state uni
yersity, and when he speaks of min
ing in Idaho and the possibilities of
building up great mining school at
Moscow, he speaks as one fully quail
fled and having an intimate knowl-
edge of the subject. In this desire to |
build up the school of mines, Dr. |
Bryan and Dr. Lindley, the new pres
ident of the university, win work in
perfect harmony and it is hoped that
they will be successful in charging
the field and increasing the usefulness
of the school of mines.
But lest our hopes soar too high. it
is well to recall that the predecessors
of DIR. Bryan and DR.. Lindley were
equally ambitious to build up the
mining department of the university
and they lacked nothing in the way of
qualifications to accomplish
Il. But they We're handicapped by
governor who subordinates the educa-
Iional interests of the state to his po- u
itical aspirations. who refused to rec
)gnize the magnitude of the mining "
industry and the importance of its de-
ielopment to all the people, and who
seems to have placed on the state
BOARD of education men who have no 81
higher conception of their obligation !.
o the educational Institutions than 9
he governor The new heads of the u
EDUCATIONAL system are men of high u
landing and have records of splendid IL
in educational lines In IN
Their states. We trust they will be
ermitted and encouraged in working a.
ut their plans for educational ad-
ancement of Idaho, and that their ex- m
erience will not be the same as that Al
their predecessors, who were con- re
'onted with a choice Of being sub
ervient to the democratic machine or -,
asign. FL