The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1917-11-22
SCHOOL OF MINES
ATTRACT YOUNG MEN
Splendid Facilities
for Technical
Education
STUDENTS co TO WAR
Appeal to High School Grad
uates-.-Experimental
Station
STUDENTS co TO WAR

-RANCIS A. THOMSON, dean Of
- the Idaho school of mines, and
C. A. Wright, superintendent
of the bureau of mines expert
mental station in connection with the
state university at Moscow, were brief
visitors last week and attended the
session of the Columbia section of the
American Institute of Mining Engin-
GERS at Kellogg Saturday afternoon
and evening While here they visit
ed the Wallace high school in order
to get acquainted with the instructors
in that institution, and at later date
Prof. Thomson hopes to have an OPP
Iportunity to address the graduating
class on the advantages offered by
the state university for higher educa-
ton, and particularly the inducements
offered young men in the school of
mines The war has levied a heavy
toll upon the mining department as
we'll as all other departments of the
university, and special efforts will be
made to induce graduates of the high
schools Of the state to fill up the ranke
| by continuing their educational work
at the university as means OF MT
ting themselves for successful profess
sonal and business careers,
The Field of Mining.
| A course at the Idaho school of
mines should appeal with unusual
force to young men graduating in the
! high schools of the Occur d'Alene
district, for its advantages are every
where in evidence. Many Of the sue
cessful mining engineers and metal
lurgists throughout the district re-
ceived their training at Moscow, ana
the success that has come to them in
their work here is the best evidence
of the thorough and practical educa-
Ition they have received. Their work
compares favorably with that of
Igraduates of older and more famous
universities, and should bring the
people Of Idaho to full realization
that it is not necessary to send their
sons to the educational institutions
of other states in order to obtain a
finished technical education. The
field of mining. whether it be mining
engineering, metallurgy or geology, Is
practically unlimited, offering both
flame and fortune to the ambitious
and Industrious young man. Elabor-
ate modern equipment has been pro-
yided for the Idaho school of mines,
and the instructors are men admirably
adapted to their work both in educa-
ton and practical experience, and the
graduate leaves the school fully pre-
pared to take up his professional
career with assurance of substantial
income from the start
Experimental Station.
The establishment of the govern
ment experimental station in connec-
ton with the school of mines is an
additional advantage. Mr.. Wright,
the superintendent, gives most faV-
orable report of the work of that in
stitution although it has been on a
working basis only few months. He
} has two assistants, and work for sew
eral more if provision had been made
by the state to pay its share. The
work of the station is chiefly devoted
TO solving metallurgical problems with
the view to making a closer recovery
of mineral values, and to the discov-
, ery of processes for the treatment OF
: refractory ores The station Is situa-
/ ted in the center of vast mining
territory, and the value of it's expert
mental work and the volume of bus
| mess that will be attracted to it will
5 in a short time result in making IL
an Independent station and bring to
, it more liberal appropriations for its
support