Show An Engineering The bill introduced into the present legislature providing for the establishment of an engineering experiment station in connection with the State School of providing for its organization and and defining its duties and we think should This station as a department of the State School of is to be under the management control of the Regents of the University of who shall appoint a station staff consisting of the director and heads of the engineering departments of the School of Mines and such other persons as the regents shall The station is' to be authorized to carry on experiments and investigations pertaining to any and all questions and problems that admit of laboratory methods of the solution of which would benefit the industrial interests of the also to publish bulletins and employ other feasible means of giving information to the public concerning the results of experiments and other work of the It is that the thus conferred shall not authorize this station to concern itself with problems that properly belong to the experiment station of the Agricultural College of such as those pertaining to stock Until otherwise provided by law there is to be appropriated to the board of regents out of any moneys in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated the sum of per annum or to pay the expenses of the engineering experiment In our judgment this amount of money is too yet even this would be a capital As the Independent remarked in a previous the financial losses in this due to the poor roads are so great and so various that it is difficult to estimate their The work that this station would do in showing the best materials and the best methods to be used in road-making would pay the total appropriation for the station many times over in every |