Show TO CREATE department OF MINES ANO MINING house committee favors a bill making appropriation for maintenance of mining schools washington the house committee on mines and mining has le ie ported favorably the bill ade up of bills in by representatives Dony bonynge and to establish schools or departments of instruction in mines and mining the bill provides that shall be ed aiom the sales of lands during the coming year to each state and territory for the establishment and maintenance of schools of mines or depart departments of mining in schools already established this appropriation to increase annually until the annual appropriation shall reach the money thus appropriated chall be expended for instruction research and experiment in i elation to mining engineering oie bic treatment metallurgy and assaying with a view to teaching the best and safest ineta methods of mining and especially for the study and preventing of fires and other dangers incident to carrying on the mining industry advocates of the bill report that it hlll do for mining what appropriations aiding agricultural schools have done for farming and agriculture and aro are hopeful of sec seeming ining its passage |