Arizona republican., 1920-07-12
HAS
 BUILDING PLANS
 WELL UNDER WAY
Greatest Program In All Southwest Is Designed To Give State Best of Collegiate Facilities

The greatest building program of any college or university in the entire southwest is now in course at the University of Arizona. A little more than s650, 900 has been expended or is to be expended under appropriations from the state or is due to donations by the board of regents which has been | charge of the chief school of Arizona ! since January, 1919. under the presi- | dency of Colonel Epes Randolph of Tucson.
 Time was. exception it's location in the desert, when the so-called Uni l versity of Arizona really deserved the designation of a ''freshwater college. In no one particular has there been such remarkable development among the institutions of the state in the past decade as in the university, and it is significant that the ma jor end of the program has been that which has been either finished or gotten under way by 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 cons struction during IS months more than Is new buildings ranging from the costly. massive school of mines and engineering at cost of $210000 to smaller structures which have been erected at outlying experiment stations.
 The school of mines and engineer ing, begun long before the induction of the present board into office, was really finished in the fall of 1919 though it had been used during the previous semester. In the determina- tion and dream of Colonel Randolph and his associates that the greatest mining state in the union shall be the home of the greatest mining college in the world, this splendid structure is the cornerstone
 It meets the requirements of the most enthusiastic and most eXacting. Its equipment is complete to the ex- tent that it, in itself, is a complete mine Tn apparatus and in machin- cry, the main building and the asso- ciated structures, the mechanical arts shop and the mines teaching shop and laboratory, are equipped for practical demonstration of every possible process from the breaking of ore bearing rock to the output of the commercial pro- duct 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 its painstaking fore sight has given to Arizona great mining university within the university proper and one winch will ultimately attract to this state the attention of the master miners the world over be- cause of the opportunities here for creating and giving to world trained, finished mining experts, experts in physical mining. chemistry as applied to mining and in the commercial de- velopment Of low grade ores to the point that they can be made an asset to the nation at large.
 l In the mines building which as a 1 structure cost $13o,o00. there is about sS0.0O0 in equipment: the mechanical arts addition cost $3O.00o, and the mine teaching laboratory, which was com | pleted in the fall of 1919, cost s50o0 making total of $245,000 invested in the mining college alone.
 The magnificent new Steward obser- l vatory which is to be one of the show i buildings of the southwest with the astronomical plant. the chief feature oi course being the telescope, was gotter under way by the regents the pas January and is now more than 75 pel ] cent on the way to completion. The donation for this building was tribut. of the confidence of the donor in tht i progress of the institution under the l present management and will represen with equipment about $400g0
 In the fall of 1919, for the extensive
 floral work at the university. it wa, 1 decided that new greenhouses wer,
 needed and they were completed thi.
 spring with an expenditure of abou
 $6500.
 The university last year was for
 mallN designated by the government al
 the main depot for the education in vo
 cational lines of disabled veterans o
 the great war and more than 200 O
 them were billeted here. The barrack
 which had been used by the cadet
 were inadequate for the demand sud denly made upon them but the regent
 and the president. pr. von einSmid
 rose to the occasion and within les
 than 30 days they had been entireI,
 remodeled at an expense Of about $400C
 partially contributed. and the resul
 was that federal inspectors asserte that Arizona's university had provides
 Tor these deserving soldiers the mos
 comfortable and thoroughly equippe barracks in the country.
 ? After having dallied for nearly tw } years up to January of 1919, the girls dormitory, long so sadly needed to ac 5 commodate the growing number 0 students, was taken in hand firmly b [ the board and pushed through to com ? pletion. Before the work was finished ? however, it was found that the origina
 plans for a two story building woul
 not fill the bill, and the regents, wit
 the wise economy which does nc
 scrimp at necessity, dediced 10 add
 third story to the birding
 This additional work was not allowe
 to hinder the rush speed at whick I was sent up and it has been finally fin ished in the last 50 days and is read for the opening of the fall semester a
 a cost of $45,0O0 including furnishing.
 IL constitutes real addition to tn group of ornamental buildings whic crowd the campus.
 r Plans have been accepted for tn new boys dormitory to cost SI45,0O { with complete furnishings and tn ? board of regents proposes to follo' on it's construction their policy of get
 ting things done and 10 have it read . within another year.
 Z Within the coming two years the re . gents will superintend the erection ( ' the state deaf school which is to h r affiliated with the university and O - which $145,000 will be spent, divided d ! follows:
 T Administration building and priu l cipars residence, $25,0O0; girls dorima . tory with separate class rooms. gym n nasium. etc. $45,000: heating an e pumping plant. $2O.OOO; boys dorm ' tory also with class rooms shove