Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-12-24
Completion Of Six New Buildings at Montana University
i'm Missoula, Makes 1t Equal to Best of Size i'm Country

drawing room, lecture rooms and blue
print and dark rooms.
The forestry building Is massive in
appearance, and a large number of am
pie windows insure plenty of light.
Terra Gotta panels between the win
doWs of the second and third stories
serve as outer decorations. The de-
sign on these panels is the forestry
insignia. a green fir tree surmounted
by a golden IN" thanked on either
side by a double bladed axe.
The architecture for the forestry
and the contractor Gust D. Forssen of
Missoula.
The Library Building i
The library building is $50 feet long
and 80 feet wide, and cost 1925, 600,
Like the rest of the structures, it is
heavy and massive in design, the walls
being of hollow tile with tapestry brick
exterior and the interior plastered.
Granite steps and a granite slab plat
form form the approach to the main
entrance, and on either side of the
platform are granite pillars support
ing pedestal lights. Entrance to the
building IS also gained from either the
east or west end, the west entrance
being dedicated to the memory of Pro-
fessor Aber, after whom Aber day.
the annual spring cleanup day is also
named. The most notable feature Of
the building is the high, graceful win
dows on the southern side which n
sure ample light for the reading room.
The basement of the library con-
tain a room in which books are I'M
packed, store room. shower baths,
and a turbine ventilating system sim
liar to the n installed in the For
estry building. The air is forced from
the basement into large metal ducts
and after having passed over warming
coils and air washer, is carried to all
parts of the building.
The basement of the new structure
is in reality the first floor. a large
stairway leading from the entrance to
the second floor upon which the main
reading room is situated. The main
extends the full length of the
building and one-half the width or is
100 feet long and 40 feet wide. In
height it. extends through the second
and third stories and when all COM
1t will be easily able to accom-
modate the students. The remaining
half of the second and third floors TO
the rear of the reading room contain
the book stacks. Lifts that convey
books to the librarians desk are in
in all sections of the stacks.
ana an electric elevator connects the
third floor with the basement. The
that are being installed at the
present time afford room for 250.0O1
volumes and more can be added as re-
Added Library Features
One Of the features of the second
floor is the lunch and rest rooms.
Though no food is dispensed by the IL
orarians, they are optimistic enough to
imagine that some one will start car
rylng d lunch. but observation and ex-
proves to us, that any time a
must study during the dinner
hours, he is far too busy to eat.
Architects for the Library building
are McIyer & Gohagen of Billings. and
Nelson d Peterson of Butte. contrac-
The heating plant, one of the finest
n the west, in proportion to size. is
feet long and Al feet wide and cosr
approximately S145,Goo. The plant
to be far distant from the
but with the present rapid
growth of the university it will be but
few years until buildings will be
close to it. The location was
1eclded upon for several reasons. It
S the lowest level of the campus, and
t is the nearest point to the railroad
the point where the least grade
viii be encountered in hauling coal
n a direct line with He'll Gate CANYON
| good draught is assured for the
Three Sterling water tube boilers
30 feet in height and of 375 horse
power each, are being installed. and
he steam will be carried at 125 pounds
,ressure-reduced to 80 pounds
where it enters the steam main and
again to five pounds at the
buildings. The edifice that will house
he boilers is of solid construction.
5uilt of reinforced concrete and with
steel roof construction supporting a
'oncrete slab, the plant has the an.
OF being anchored to stay.
Automatic Stokers
A chimney $50 feet high surmounts
he structure and is visible from all
of the city. The coal hunkers
re on the east side of the building,
from the time the coal is unload
d from the truck until it is hauled
way as ashes it is handled entirely
" machinery. Elevators hoist the
oal as it is dumped from the truck,
the bunkers, which have a capacity
+ 70 tons. A gravity feed deposits
he coal on an elevated travelling lor-
Y. While on this lorry the coal is
automatically weighed, and then de-
to the stokers. which are in
eality travelling CRATES. The CRATES
re continually moving and the coal is
onveyed under the boilers, and as it
consumed is carried onward until
he ash is finally dumped into a steel
ar in the basement. The filled car
) run onto an elevator, hoisted to the
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