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Show ) r - - r , ' - I I " 1 u - . ' WLi -visiting Salt Lake yesterday, A. T. Woodhouse of Provo,' superinten: dent of the Tellnride Power company, talked very interestingly of the Tellurite Tellu-rite Engineering institute, situated, at Olmsted in Provo .e&nyon, where fifty young college graduates are jeeeiving instruction and practical experience in electrical engineering under conditions and with facilities at hand, scarcely sur-pacsed sur-pacsed in the best colleges in the land. The Tellnride Engineering institute is a pet - offspring of the Tellurite Power company, and justly proud is every member and employee of the company of this truly wonderful institution. insti-tution. Situated in the midst of a scene of I remarkable natural beauty at the Telluride power plant in Provo canyon, is the institute building, a rnagniilcen brick structure, which bears the distinction dis-tinction of perhaps being the finest one of the kind in the State. The bricks are of a special kind imported from Colorado. . ' ' -- The appurtenances and equipment of this building : furnish every facility that a student in electrical engineering could wish and all is supplemented by the unusual facilities for practical study and work pffered by. the big power plant at hand. Has Fine Laboratory. ' The TeHuride Engineering institute possesses the finest, laboratory and electrical equipment to be found west of Chicago. The apparatns is of the costliest and newest kind, one piece, for instance, being one out of the only twenty-three manufactured in Germany, Ger-many, the other twenty-two being distributed dis-tributed among the world's greatest technical schools. ' 1 " ! , ' Into this institution none- but college col-lege graduates are welcomed, and from the cream of these, as proved by their work in the institution, the Telluride Power company picks the men who are to constitute its operating force. In fact, the whole secret of the foundation founda-tion of the institute was the desire on the part of the company to evolve, a method by which it might build up a service that would represent the greatest possible efficiency. The ability abil-ity and responsibility required to handle the vast electrical forces eonr nected with modern -power systems demands de-mands the most efficient service possible, pos-sible, and one of the reasons for the founding of the Telluride institute was to build up just such a service to take care of the vast and responsible enterprises. enter-prises. ' ' - ' College Graduates Sought. . ' : "College graduates fcre ..everywhere encouraged to attend the institute, and have .responded from every section of the United States. If the young man "makes good," he may rest . assured that the company will not fail to make inducements he will be glad to accept; if he fails to convince the company that he is needed in. its service, he is ia1twm1 in vrv wav cossible to set a position elsewhere. Work of Practical Nature. The work in the main is of a'practi-eal a'practi-eal nature. It is getting the young men "used to doing things." -It supplements sup-plements the theoretical work of the colleges, and whenever the occasion arises in or about the power plant, the students are expected to "get out and drill. " A course at the institute is a practical training for work. At present there are two regular instructors in-structors at the institute. But -this unique institution eannot be described in terms of other schools. It- is to Utah what the Boycroft schools of Egbert Eg-bert Hubbard are to New Yerk. To speak of two instructors gives no adequate ade-quate idea of the amount of instruction instruc-tion going' on. -All are instructors as well as pupils, and all co-operate together to-gether to the common end of practical training.. The two regular instructors can best be described, by calling them overseers. ... The Telluride Engineering institute is a valuable asset to the commonwealth common-wealth of Utah. It is developing young men of great promise and starting them out in the world of affairs. Some of the young men who have had training under .its roof are climbing up; some as employees of the Telluride Power company and some who have entered other services. - |