The Arizona copper camp., 1920-07-17

6Ap0Hu0Q uHu0F appropriations lfOu
the state or due to donations by the
board of regents which has been in
charge of the chief school of Arizona
since January, 1919, under the presi-
dency of Colonel Epes Randolph of
Tucson.
Time was, except for it's location in
the desert, when the so-called Uni
versity of Arizona really deserved the
designation Of "freshwater college. -
In no one particular has there been
such a remarkable development among
the institutions of the state in the
past decade as in the university and
it is significant that the major end of
the program has been that which has
been either finished or gotten under
way under the driving enthusiasm of
the present board of regents.
To a plant which UP to two years
ago was ample to meet the needs of
the registration at the school, there
have been added in various stages of
construction in this 18 months, more
than fifteen new Luildings ranging
from the costly, massive school of
mines and engineering at a cost of
$210,000 to smaller structures which
have been erected at outlying expert
ment stations.
The school of mines and engineer
ing, begun Of course long before the
induction of the present board into
office, was really finally finished in
the fall of 1919 though it had been
used the previous semester. In the
determination and dream of Colonel
Randolph and his associates that the
greatest mining state in the union
shall be the home of the greatest min
ing college in the world, this splendid
structure is the corner stone.
1t meets the requirements Of the
most enthusiastic and most exacting.
It's equipment is complete to the ex-
tent that it, in itself, is a complete
mine. In apparatus and in machin-
cry, the main building and the as
sociated structures, the mechanical
arts shop and the mines teaching shop
and laboratory, are equipped for prac-
tical demonstration of every possible
process from the breaking of ore
bearing rock to the output of the COM
mercial product of every metal which
is mined in this state.
In all the elaborate plant which is
maintained by the taxpayers of this
state for the widely diffused scope Of
education which now offers virtually
as many courses to the student as the
great eastern universities, the board
of regents through their painstaking
foresight have given to Arizona a
great mining university within the
the university proper and one which
will ultimately attract to this state
the attention of the master miners
the world over because of the opor-
tunities here for creating and giving
to the world trained, finished min
ing experts, experts in physical min
ing, chemistry as applied to mining
and in the commercial development
of low grade ores to the point that
they can be made an asset to the
nation at large.
In the mines building which as a
structure cost $13O,OO0, there is about
$4,000 in equipment, the mechanical
arts addition cost $4,000 and the mine
teaching laboratory which was com
pleted in the fall of 1919, cost $1,000
making total of $245,O00 invested in
the mining college alone.
The magnificent new Steward OBJ
servatory which is to be one If the
show buildings of the southwest with
the astronomical plant, the chief fea-
ture of course being the telescope. was