Show UTAH SCHOOL OF MIN MINES E S I 1 I 1 editor salt lake mining review the industrial growth of utah is truly mar marvelous vel and along aang all legitimate lines but no other industry has advanced with such gigantic strides as has that of mining so great has been the growth of mining that it has practically abs absorbed all the minor industries and made them tributary to it up to the year 1894 mining was conducted in a haphazard sort of way fluctuating in its fis aggregate results all the way from a few thousand dollars up to twelve million dollars per per annum but since that date the business has been systematized and something like business methods adopted with the result that a total production of a little more than in 1894 has been steadily and regularly ular y increased n c ceased until the total output of the mines in the 1 four leading metals gold silver lead and copper reached the magnificent sum of in 1902 the idea which a few years ago pos essed the public mind that success in the mining industry was governed gov arned by chance lias given way to the knowledge that of ail all the industries of the west none are isaore more to the winning influence of thorough technical training and careful busi less methods than is that of mining mini ng this ingole agi nas been mainly instrumental al in egit egi timi m mizing ane industry and placing g its fis securities ties on a footing wil other investments with the afe growth of this industry in utah itts come a demand demana for trained operatives n all departments pertaining to the busi less in the field surveyors and civil engineers gi in the mines miners and geologists in the milis mills mechanics metallurgists n the laboratory chemists and assayers assay ers ind in d over all thoroughly competent mining rs reinforced with mechanical architectural tec tural and topographical draughtsmen draughtsman draughts men to ro neet beet this demand and with the product ot of aur ur own state the legislature two years igo ago laid the foundation for a state school of mines making it a branch of the university of tj altah tah conformable with the enabling act of congress under this initiatory legislation foundry machine shops work shops laboratories and library have been established and as thorough training in all the branches ot of mining and electrical engineering instituted as the limited equipment of the school would permit fully one hundred students have availed themselves of the opportunity thus offered of securing a practical training in the popular calling and ane heads of that department are pressed to their wits ends to meet the demands of growth and advancement of their classes urther liberal appropriations are necessary to properly carry on the work begun president kingsbury has estimated the cash requirements of the school for the coming two years at about of which is for a metallurgical plant or re duclon works for the smelting smelling sm elting and milling of the the various ores of the state the idea being to embody all of the various approved methods of treatment and to make it an experimental plant for the benefit of the state at large in addition to the metallurgical plant there is und under er contemplation a power plant additions to and further equipments menis for the foundry machine shop and other buildings all of which are necessary to the consummation of the scheme to make the utah school of mines one of the best and most complete institutions of the kind in america there chere is a movement on toot foot at the agricultural college to secure a a share of state patronage in this line in other words to have established there a branch or second school 1 l of mines this would be radically ra cally wrong and should not be considered for a mor moment by the legislature in the first place sait lake city is the most admirably located of any point on earth for the practical ticO study of the mining industry and hence for of a school of mines thero is is no other city on earth from whence a class can start in the morning and be shown a gold mine a silver mine a lead mine a 1 I copper mine and an iron mine and a mill or smelter for ane treatment of each of these ores and be returned to their class room in the evening again the maintenance of a school of min x es is expensive and ir if possible appropriations are to be divided lor the support ot oi two schools they will both be failures aan ahi u uenh ch may never look tor for a competitive place other states in this line of education i a line in which utah sh should buld and c can ap lead as A t does an n the calling cabling for which the stu students Aenis are bein prepared N 1 finally 1 ahe I he enabling fi act under which the school of mines was practically p ra atle a lly est established blushed bli shed I 1 names it as a protect of the university sity and sets aside acres of land and towards its support the agricultural co college liege although under federal patronage was not considered the proper place for it our worthy governor fully appreciating the important part which a thorough school of mines anines plays I 1 in n the system of the state urges that tue requirements of the school school as set forth in president kings buys burys biennial report be fully met and I 1 understand is personae pers onay interesting himself in trying to bring about a harmonious settlement between the contending factions As to the benefits to be derived by the state from this appropriation and the carrying out of president Kings burys designs of equipment there can be no ng two opinions except 11 as to magnitude hundreds of low grade mining properties are laying idle n various parts of the state for the reason that the owners are short on the knowledge and cap capital ital necessary to conduct experiments on mades of economical treatment many oi of tese these might be brought to the front and made to respond liberally and the state at large be bene fitted accordingly by the simple and necessary processes of a properly equipped school of mines W M WHITE C E |