The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1923-09-28

| long by rs feet wide, with two floors
a half basement equivalent to an
other floor, and a disable attic. The
architecture is plain, those who plan
ned it preferring to put money into
utility rather than adornment. The
exterior is noticeable for the unusu-
ally large number and size of the
windows, these insuring the maxi
mum amount of light in every la
boratory and classroom. The main
entrance faces the south, overlooking
a long stretch of the valley of Silver
on each of the other sides and, in adj
dition, tunnel leading to Main Hall
so that no student need be out in bad
weather while changing classes. The
roof is covered with Montana copper
shingles, this hall being the first pub
lie edifice in the state to be so pro-
tected.
The Railways throughout the build
| ing are wide and commodious. Pol
ished marble-terrazo floors make
work easy for the janitors and add
to the fireproof qualities of the
structure. The woodwork is of dark
oak. The stairways wind around the
we'll of freight elevator that runs
from the basement to the attic
There are Mushrooms on each floor.
Most of the first floor is given
over to the courses in metallurgy. On
it are the big general metallurgy la
boratory, the metallurgy laboratory
lecture room, the physical and cleo
tro chemistry laboratory, two suites
of offices for the metallurgy profess
sors, and the metallurgy draughting
room. The general laboratory will
care for hundred students at one
time while the physical and electro
chemistry laboratory accommodates |
sixty. The students will work at |
desks of the very latest style, having |
at their command gas, compressed |
air, electricity, hot and cold water, |
gas and electric high temperature
plates, high class balances and scales
and other equipment too numerous
to mention. The desks are exactly
the same as those placed last year
in the new two million dollar Sterling
laboratory at Yale univer-
sity and they were made for this
building by E. H. Sheldon & Co., of
Mich, who also furnish
ed most of the other furniture used.
They are specially treated to resist
the action of acids, the same being
true of all the drains. Finely con-
5tructed porcelain hoods, connected
with big ventilating fans in the attic
will carry away all noxious fumes.
The offices are well supplied with
arge desks, sectional bookcases, fill
ng cabinets, filing cases, document
Eases, and instrument cases, all de-
signed to expedite office work of any
Kind.
The second floor is devoted entire
Y to chemistry. Here are located
he general chemistry laboratory for
he freshmen accommodating a hun
lred students at one time, the guam
itative chemistry laboratory for the
ophomores accommodating sixty stu
ents, a convenient stock room for
hese laboratories, the weighing
Dom for 20 at a time, the main
dentistry lecture room which seats
25, a smaller chemistry lecture room
nd two suites of offices for the pro-
each containing a main Of
ice, private laboratory, and prep
ration room. The feature of the
lain lecture room is the lecturers
esk, a costly piece of furniture so
esigned that any type of experiment
lay be carried out before a class
'ithout loss of time. In addition to
ne usual gas, electricity, compressed b
ir, and water, there are arrange
tents for handling all of the more
ommon gases. There are also two
trge water tanks, one so set and COW
red with glass that students may see
lie exact workings of tests made un- r
er water. Il
In the basement there are the ply
cal metallurgy laboratory, the gen "
al and special supply rooms, the In vi vi
lstrial chemistry laboratory, re- 10
,arch laboratory with its office and N
llance room, an emergency labora- ~
Try, the main wash room, the stu ca
ents' locker room and shower baths, loi
Guilty shower baths, and the en- xr
ne room and machine shop. The u
lysical metallurgy laboratory is T.
of novelty as only a few no
the larger institutions give courses IL
this subject. The school of mines
Columbia University in New York
generally conceded to have the A
.st equipment along this line and
e Montana Mines laboratory is a in,
lplication of the one at Columbia. Me
will make possible wide range of =
SITS on smelted metals hitherto i'm n
'ssible anywhere in Montana be- u
use of lack of the necessary instru- -,
ents. A feature of the stock rooms ti I'
the large concrete vault, 35 feet
ng by 20 feet wide, where especially =
luable chemicals and instruments
ay be kept under a combination
ok. The industrial chemistry labor ~
DRY is not yet set up but in time
III be fitted out with teaching watts, -
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