Show The Schools of Utah j The University of Utah j School of Mines of the The State University of Utah This series of articles is prepared for the In dependent solely for the purpose of letting people know something of the quality and the number of the leading educational institutions of Ibis From none of them does this paper receive any These articles are not jet we hope they will result in inspiring many more of the young of Utah to attend these in- of Editor of jibe i I Tte state institution for higher learning comprises three schools or one of which is described in this for the information of our own and and for the inspection of our young The School of Mines is I the college of engineering of University of It is located with the university on the bench I in the eastern suburbs of Salt The site overlooks the I city and and it is cue of I the most beautiful and suitable I that could be In the School of Mines the past I few years have witnessed great There has been a steady growth in registration of the courses leading to degrees have been and bought up to the best the laboratory and other facility of instruction have and the entire work of the school i been better During the college year there were students in the School of Mines and JM during fraction was given in one or more engineering subjects to a considerable number of students registered in other departments of the Ia twenty students from the School of Mines with the degree of Bachelor of thirteen in five in one in and one in chemical In 1903 twenty-four were seventeen in two in and five in civil The entrance requirements have recently been raised until they are now equal to those of standard engineering colleges elsewhere in the United These requirements call for the completion of four years of high school In 1906 the school was offering side is the one usually It will interest the tax-payers to learn that the offering of this strong course in irrigation engineering by the the two institutions named does not cost the state of Utah For the course in irrigation and drainage was given by the college before the arrangement with the School of Mines was and the two years' work at the School of Mines was all prescribed in other engineering courses with one slight A noteworthy advance at the School of Mines during the last biennium has been made in graduate research courses in all departments have been and graduate degrees are now The degree of master of science in engineering has been five four-year courses in one in one in one in one in and one in chemical To these five there was added in a course in irrigation which is given in connection with the agricultural college of In still another course leading to a degree was announced course in general By arrangement with the agricultural college there is now offered in the state an exceptionally strong course in irrigation because both the agricultural side and the engineering side of the course are which is usually not done by other institutions that offer this The agricultural made available resident graduate students on completing a prescribed amount of and to non-resident students the professional degrees of mining electrical and civil are offered to former graduates who have been in successful engineering practice for at least three In line with graduate experimental research work was also carried on with more vigor than ever especially in ore and the testing of As an aid to research work E. A. of Salt Lake City has established a research fel Under this fellowship working with A. experimented on the carrying capacity of launders and secured some very important a of which will be published in mines and An investigation of the brick manufactured in the state was made in the laboratory for testing materials under the direction of E. H. and the results were published in Bulletin 1 of the School of The under-graduate laboratory work having been well it is proposed to employ the equipment of the laboratories in working out problems in which the public have more or less interest and if will benefit the and other interests of the CORNER OF ORE DRESSING MILL G This mill facilities for concentrating ores by nearly all the commercial processes of the AU mining and mechanical students work in As a result or experimental work a hand-book on the and Testing of and a bulletin on materials used in macadamizing streets and roads will be soon Lubricating building street paving are to be Problems in too numerous' to it is receive The administration and faculty are united in a desire to make the institution known and recognized as an institution of public not only for the training it gives to young men and but also for the information it gives to the public as a result of Kj experiments and researches practical Those who desire further tails as to entrance courses of laboratory and other student Ji should address the What It Would Through the courtesy of I J dean of the School I I of we are able to present the main reasons for the establish- i ment of an engineering i ment station at the Merrill maintains that the non-agricultural industries of the I state are in need of an institution that will bear the same relation to 9 them that the experiment station j at the agricultural college bears i i to the agricultural jui engineering experiment station is to the man in charge of tion work in the state what the i fi supreme court is to the justice of the It is an institution to I solve perplexing by the method of Suppose that it is proposed to lj build a macadam Different materials are The de-h sire is to use the But which are the Tests at the engineering experiment station would answer the The materials to be used in a pavement are to meet certain But no one can know until they are if are the facilities at hand for thorough The experiment station would possess the necessary and the public would like to have information about the building stones of the especially as to their qualities for structural and other By making and mechanical the experiment station could present in bulletin form all the desired information pertaining to local building There are mountains of iron ore in Utah that may some day be the basis of a great iron and man But that day an process of reducing these j with Utah fuels will haO If an experimental tion could discover this process t would render an inestimable sm Mechanical Testing Machines in one of the Laboratories of the j ice to the 1 Some of the Here are some of the that might and ought to be by an experiment Bacterial tests of Utah especially Tn to water supply and stream the of sewage disposal country and for rural or also in Utah tests of Utah of quality of mortar on strength of of Utah sands-for use in of investigations concerning the water-proof- of concrete the efficiency of steam pipe of coals or the Utah of lubricating methods for measuring the water flowing in a canal with the least possible reduction of velocity in the of the best design for wood stave the necessary depth for water the effect of water hammer on long pipes a study of the waters with respect to their analysis of salt deposits and development of technical methods for purification the leaching methods of copper extraction low grade copper ores' and the application of cyanide processes to silver the injurious constituents of smelter smoke and improvements in methods of smelting the best methods and for consuming determining the accuracy of the meters that measure the electric energy sold to the efficiency of various electric lamps and the causes of poor light transporting power of water in ore efficiency of various' fine-crushing machines graded crushing without use of the relative merits of screen and hydraulic sizing for table work and of shaking and revolving a study of close hydraulic sizing with a view to determining if material heretofore considered impossible of separation can be a study of reinforced concrete and relation between temperature of the air and the strength of concrete in Why It Should Be The above list is not by any but will serve to the kind of problems which such an experiment station would be The Independent has no hesitation in predicting that the creation of such a station will soon as much to the material and sanitary welfare of the people of Utah as the agricultural experiment station now and that is saying a great |