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Show i 4 H 444"W;fHfH4 4A --H--M- VOL. XVIII. logAn city, utar. Saturday, December, 24, i8i8 HO. 50 is -- a room used for the machinery, ten of consisting taming lathee, one plkner, one hand 'saw, one universal caw table, one jig saw, grindstones, etc. Adjoining this on the south, is the machinroom. Its ery equipment consists of lathes, planer, Jrill press ' and milling machine. This room also contains the tool room and a fifteen-hors- e power electric motor, from which power is derived for, all the machinery . both in this room and in the machinery room. The second floor of the. central part of the building is divided info three rooms, a class room for phys few hundred yards to the south is ics and mechanics, the directors the Logan River, with its clear office, and a department room water and luxuriant-grass- es and well fitted with special drawing shrubs ' A mile to the east lsa instruments and magnificent mountain range and apparatus. It also contains the nrpic(ureVque canyon. In other annual class exhibit of students directions the towns and farms work in mechanic arts. coveriug the green surface of Cache The two roomer to the north of seen and the the clear Valley, central part, wnicfiare, exactly through wood-workin- g iron-worki- wood-worki- vation and accurate judgment. Careful study of the minerals, plants and animals themselves, illustrates and fixes the daily At the same time lessons in agriculture, horticulture, enN ACT OF gineering and household economy Bhow the of science; Congres, and all are application en approved forced by 7 18G lea-eon- 2, July 2, that public lands should pro-vide- d be tuah experi- blue-piimin- s. t : 7 , t - ment. ng g ji s granted to the several states,, to III. It trains , n t the amount of thirty thousand in the ele'1 , at : acres for each senator and repre- ments of the v iC i..-- , ; H, . . i ' . . themssentative in Congress, for the es- arts ' tablishment and maintenance of an elves, and , , t r J t i V. in each Btate. such agricultural college , '? iW'-J- , , to as B? the terms ot a recent-ac- tpro- skill wM A.3 Tor the admission of Utah make the viding ' ; ns a state, the amount of public hands f ready 1. .:k "5 ' hnds granted to the Agricultural instruments of College of ptahwas increased to 'A The 200,000 acres. f :!? : The legislature of Utah in 18S8, drill of the "V I accepted the provisions of the shops, gardens, ' V '' ; ' Ji national law by the passage of an farm- - and -t i J act wuich founded the College, de- household de- fined its policy, prescribed its work, partments, is made a part of and indicated its sphere: course The 12 ofinstruc the general Sec. tion shill embrace the English education for . language and literature, mathe- usefulness, and matics, civil engineering, agricul insures a tnral chemistry, animal and vege means of livtable annomy and physiology, the ing to all who veterinary art, entomology, geology make good use and such other Natural sciences aa mav be prescribed, technology, same time it hUSb prlitical, rural and household preserves habMAIN BUILDING, AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. , moral its of industry horticulture, economy, manual philosophy, history, bookkeeping, and and cultivates ' a taste for atmosphere, constitute a delightful similar to those south, are tempoexercise of the and especially, application and impressive panorama.' science and the mechanical arts to rural and domestic pursuits. rarily used as the students chemicto The Main Building is one of the al laboratory, and the experiment increase strives IV. field. It experithe in agriculture practical The College is in several ways mental knowledge , of agriculture finest in the West, being a large statiou chemical laboratory. The which and horticulture. The provision handsome brick structure, about walls of the building are of brick, accomplishing the objects for for extensive and accurate research 300 feet long and nearly 200 feet aod the roof of corrugated iron; it it has beenjendowed: the ' Experi- deep in the central part. It is is steam heated and well lighted I, It gives a substantial educ- made by establishing ation to men and women. Such ment Station as a distinct depart- complete as shown on this page, and ventilated throughout. offers assur- excepting the central front. of the The Excriment.,i3i&titm, buildgeneral information and discipline ment of more College, "definite New sitult-e- d than result" The to ance as is a largo brick structure, conShop and character 'Building; help mind ing of of a south little obtained the be can build. citizens main useful by ordinary make intelligsnUnd taining; the - laboratories - of - the is one methods. ing, high, story its inall departments, are offered The College is located on a broad except the central while the students are kept in 1 part.y which is'two th'theind ustria occu pa hill overlooking the townone mile and stories. .The ground Main of east Logan, Street, tions. commands a view of the entire floor of ,this central II. It teaches the sciences , of entire valley and of its surround- part iVfittedupto industries to the. various ing mountain ranges. ' The beauty accommodate fortv-eigfarm, shop and home. Chemistry, of in . students, and the location is unsurpassed, and botany, entomology, biology To the of that any carpentry.' mechanics are made prominent perhaps unequaled by - other college in the country. A east of the carpentry obserto quick of educating means room is , the forge room, containing 4 -- - -- 5 , , im-par- ts , !'-- . , j 4. m II1-:- - 5 -- e'-- f ' s-.- 1r - J,r Ull li:t ofitAttbe. J - , ( j sym-paihy- ap--pli- and the Horticulturist; the office Director of the Station, ' and the library of the Professor of English. Advanced students participate in the work of the various laboratories, and a series of experimental Agriculturist, Entomologist, of- - d research is carried on in each division by the professor in charge. ? A Model Barn and Stockyard are connected with the College. The barn is a .wooden building about sixty feet square aod , contains a silo, a root cellar, an engine room aod separate quarters for horses, cattle, sheep and swine; also model storage divisions for hay, grain and farming and horticultural implements. The Dormitory for jroung omen contains accommodations for about seventy-fiv- e lady students. Each room is about 12x14 feet, exclusive of a good closet, and is furnished with -- chairs, tables, a washstand, a full jget- - of chamber ware, a looking glass, and either a bedstead or two cots; there are also registers for efficient ventilation,. In addition to the rooms fop , the 8tudenththere are rooms for matron and for cooks and domestics, a model kitcheo, a large dining hall, a pantry supplied with modern conveniences, a laundry and bath rooms. A large reception room is used for students receptions, under the anspiceu of the Presidents wife, the ladies of the faculty and the wives of the members of the faculty. Residences for the College President, the Director oftSfe Experiment Station, and the Farm Sup- erintenden t are. J-- tustted he. for laborfarm campus Cottage" ers have also been provided. , A Forcing House and a Veterinary Laboratory both . well fitted for their purposes, are situated un the College grounds. . The Farm of about one huudred acres is well stocked with the best breeds of cattle, sheep, switm-ai- Ht poultry, and is fully provided with improved implements uud farm . , machinery. Three and a half acres of ground, .close to Abe College ..building are. appropriated to the use of students, for athletic sport?. The Faculty cousUta of about twenty-fivmembers, many of them of long and successful experience In practical and industrial, : as well as general education. Each year the Agricultural College increases in popularity; and, large as are its buildiogsextensive its resources and numerous .its Faculty, all promi8S jo aprpve in- -, adequate to. the demand within. & few years, judged from the ratio of increase in the past. y17 ( -w- loni 1 -- e s wl 4.r j ed ht twenty-fou- r A 1-.-. 7po we r blast forges and ' vils with ; complete equipment of vice benches and tools; in an off set to the north is the power room, containing one ' power - electric motor and fan for the forge blast, and one A V P in1 1 1 j, F ' fr ! S V A t i t A (Of.LKUK'CARX. - - . ', - se e Underground - s pipes and thence, through t.?e exhaust fan P the Huoke stack.. Immediately south of the carpeiAry room 4 W l41 la, :4ir power motor and exhaust fan, which draws all smoke from1 the forges, into ten-hors- A J an- five-hor- ' - COM.EGE DORMITORY. A 0 A, ? 'Vi-- . |