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Show GOVfRdHOIT HAS JOBS FOR , GRADUATES v . : 'n . ' 7 ' Applies to the Engineering Coarse at LoganSays ' 3. ForUer. , ' 8. Fortler. chief of Irrigation Invoetlsa-tlons. Invoetlsa-tlons. I'nlted States department of agriculture, agri-culture, who la In this city on bis wax. to Reno, Nov., after spending a week ra Cache van, la of the opinion that the new bourse In agricultural engineering provided for th agricultural college of Utah by the recent state toglalatu-a la going to nil a long felt want.. " At the Kenyon hotel thla morning, Mr. Fortler. who waa connected for eojreral years with the agricultural oollege, eaid. , "We And In our department at Washington Wash-ington that the engineering graduate, of Cornell, Boston Tech and other scientific schools of the eaat are not sufficiently qualltted to take up the work In the west, they are not familiar enough with western conditions. With this new course f agricultural engineering at the Logan eohool you are going to educate western boys to western Ideaa. and there la going go-ing to be plenty of work for them at 1 home, aa well aaNn our departmenta. t "Waaa ww want le teaiaed enaflasore a well aa agriculturists. I think the new course at the Logan school Is going to go a long way toward meeting tbia demand. "Much Intereet la taken at our otilce In Washington In the new course, and being In the west and naturally Interested Inter-ested in the school I have taken opportunity oppor-tunity to Investigate It. - Thtee who know Utah and Ita resources believe It Is destined to become a wonderful agricultural agricul-tural arete, and 1 believe that the new school work will help materially la bringing bring-ing this about. 'The course In agricultural engineering te distinctly a departure. It hasbeea only since the civil war that there haa been any particular branching out In engineering en-gineering llnee of study. L'p to the time of the war the civil engineer for Instance attempted to do everything In hie line. He not only located the route of a railroad rail-road but designed and built structures. , In the past fifty yeare, howeve thla engineering en-gineering work haa widened out to a , score or more of branchee, and now we have the mechanical engineer, electrical i engineer, the hydraulic engineer and eo forth, all forming Important llnee of engineering. en-gineering. ' "All these branchee, however, have to do with railroad work. But very little , attention haa been paid to farming or the , building up of agricultural communities, j The new course at the agricultural col- , lege of Utah la Intended to supply this , deficiency , To Study Irrigation. ' "The new course will consist of six. features fea-tures of study. Utah being an arid state the matter of Irrigation will naturally be given first consideration. As tha state's product! venees depends largely on Irrigation Irri-gation It la Important to train young men carefully In the use of all the state's available water supply. "Closely allied to the matter of Irrigation Irriga-tion la that of drainage. Thousands of acres of Irrigated lands In the state have been made practically worthless by be waterlogging of the eoQ and the rise of alkali. There are thousands of acres of unproductive saline lands in tbe Salt Lake basin, which ,wa must find a way to reclaim. "The course will also Include study of the ' use and care of farm Implemenvta. machines and motors of all kinds. In this day It ia hot enough for the farmer boy to know how to ride and how to hitch up a team. He must also know something of machinery, motors and gaa engines. "A feature of the course will deal with rural architecture, thla to include a study J of the forms and building of structures beat adapted to the farm and to agricultural agricul-tural communities, Qa Boad Makinf. "The sixth feature of the course will Include study of highway construction and engineering. The matter bf good roads is an Important one and .nearly every state in the union la appropriating money for the betterment of Ita high-ways. high-ways. - "it la to the graduates of the agricultural agricul-tural engineering course at the agricultural agricul-tural oollege of Utah that we hope to gtre places hi the work of tha department. depart-ment. Mr. Fortler la In tha west at this time to confer with Professor W. W. McLaughlin, McLaugh-lin, Irrigation engineer for the government govern-ment in charge of the Utah experiment stat lone, and K. R. kf organ, assistant stats engineer, relative to a bulletin entitled, en-titled, 'Irrigation In Utah." This bulletin bul-letin is to be Issued In the near future and will cover In detail Information for which Mr. Fortler aays there la great demand de-mand in the east, and which the department depart-ment does not have time to give in personal per-sonal letters to all who ask regarding Utah and ita agricultural resources and possibilities. . |