Show STATE SCHOOL 0 OF MINES F NOTES I 1 e contributed the long wait for structural steel for the milling and metallurgical building at the state school of mines has ended the steel having arrived and ohp th building is rapidly being pushed to completion most of the machinery for equipping the building has been on the ground for some time the new machinery for testing the strength and resistance of building and structural materials including cements has been installed and works beautifully there are four of these machines all of the make and they are the first of the kind to be installed in utah henceforth it will be unnecessary for architects and engineers to send material away from utah to be tested the class in surveying urve ying this year is more than twice the size of any previous class numbering thirty five members and strange as it may seem two of this number are ladles ladies the equipment for the field work of this class includes eight tran sits and five levels besides rods range poles steel tapes etc the new equipment for the dynamo laboratory a bor atory is being installed As soon as the installation in stalla tion of this equipment is completed which will be within about four weeks this will be one of the finest equipped college laboratories of the kind in the united states the registration of the students of the school of mines this fall has not only been greater than ever before but larger than was expected there are more than students of college rank registered in the school besides an equal number in the preparatory school who are registered as engineering preparatory students among the new courses offered this year for the first time is railroad engineering in the hands of professor wilson this is being made a very strong and practical course professor wilson has had considerable experience peri ence in railroad engineering |