«f A. ft M. C«ltcc«.
Th« followint Icttar taken from
the Dallas New* at F*b 16, **•
written by |^, Li Huteoa, a former
graduate of A. & M.: I
Houston, Teat,, Feb. the
refmrt of the board at dirertors of the
Agricultural and Mechankal C'oJlcve
there are two appopnattons a^ke,l for
Which should rer t-ive special . ..nv
•^•*•00, not only-from the I .cvslxuirt
but from the pi-ople who pai for
tlwee appropriations. It is probable
that no investment which the State
will be asked to make at that leeaitin
will produce more valuable returns
than these two, if they are used wisely.
rtey are the appropriation of $75,-
000 for an httKintwiai Jb
buildings, w • Iftafte mH
(rowing departments of civil
cultural, mjnhu^icbl mail
engineering, i|nd tbo oddifton
000 to the nijintdnance fund, to pro
vide for “the larfte increase of sn»-
dema.” and establish a new de
partment, t
ing en
I doubt,
many who dl
the vital
metm, at
set forth i
tb the people Inf "I'enas
them to
t of metallurgy and mm-
hoMrever, if there are
lerirand the iniponance.
of these inyekt-
i and 1 wish, to
iota eo demon
heed there i$
once for
sons in these*
Tevas, w
great uudei
'ITiat »s no
7 J a---
the training of theft own
iese engineering branches.
know, is*
patera
vs to any llexan.
say, we need unly capital
ts bnty hall
id technical
We
o deUet<»p
the truth,
know lodge,
fit fnmiwal
th an eye
-T l we
money, to ipplv to «ur
land of
resources.
native
lignite,
ler valuable
and abUn-
has been
lidbitu: Wi-
t
ineral I
them, but
Brains, skillli
scientific tminang and *
investigations s arned on
to local conditions, are
far more
problem * of developing
wealth.
From I.amdu to I'eUarkana. for
example, stretches a hroadi belt within
which may be found coal, lignit
, shale, pottery , clay and otbei
minerals in gtWt variety ar
dance. In placed,i this b|lt
scratched, and a few fl
dastnes sprung up I
who own dhem valuable
ar*. as a rule, nutcbtnnn, jfar
merchants, who are entirety wit
technical knob’lulge and are at
mercy of specatators wbo con
the North and "Fast and who
them in various ways, either by u i
dervaluing rh* deposits and gnntl
the land fur.Mjnere song, or by. per
suading the orsinef and hisj neighixirs
to invest in expensive einiptneni to
work a meager or macceshhie de
posit: or by the tboumij and one
other ways m which the foreign efc-
' plaster may rake advantage of IbqaJ
ignorance. ^ ■ J .? | J'
^W'e knou nothing atSuut mining tor
machinery: worse still, we ktuiu
nothing about the engineer we Con
sult. We do not know what reputa
tion he may trnar In Eutoipe utr iajti
North, and he is a long way f.
home. UnAe# h« intends to stay
this region, he may not be as enref
as he wouM he in matsers more t|
W to affect hia pmfenaianal stand
Could theag I
engineers whom «bey have knoWn
personally for years, or whose rcpuia
tion in this btage wan at stake, they
n-ould be saved fronj some of these
pitfalls. But the Texans who have
had a mining engineering education
aNe few. and as they -have had to go
out of the Stmt* to get it, it frequently
happens that they do not return, find
ing employment elsewhere.
Yet they ate needed, gnd badly
needed u% Texas. Kven where these
minerals are mined, they are mined
waMefully, and this, too, herattsd thto
owners do dotpaaMr how tb improve
their rule-nf-dhwaMb : methods, and
there is no onettn tench thetn
1 talked rectmtiy with one of the
few Texas mintng engineers who ed
ucated in Michigan, has cbme bee :
-to bis home and is now employed by
huainesx men of hit region who have
kn5wn him^jhn boyh<K>d, to report
ott mineral lands which they plan to
develop. He told of a lignite 'mine*
on whi^h he had recently made a re
port, which had" been in operation
some time, yet had never been sur
veyed. When the owners found it
netessary to put in a ventilating shaft/
thgy decided on his location “be
guess an' be gorrah," and after hav
ing sunjc ** to the level of the mine,
found that they failed to . strike the
engv, and were obliged to dig a ride
enrey toj the air shaft, locating it by
rapping on the stratum Of stone which
happened to form the flo-.t
We all remember the thousands of
dollars lost in the early experiments
in the Texas oil ^elds. Prospecting
for oil seems to be a game of chance,
but mining for coal and similar de
pots has become an e^cact science,
since by 1 , meant of test holes and sur
veys an engineer will determine mu
only the amount of the deposit, bin
the cost; per ton of minutg and plac
ing on cars at the nearest railroad.
"ITle history of the World shows
that every county which possesses an
abundant supply of f^iel 'becomes
sooiner or later an industrial coen|mr.
Te*a* twill prove no exception to
this, law of development, and khe
need ftof engineers trained in mechan
ical, electrical, metallurgical. and ar-
chttectual knowledge will be as great
in the near future as it is today for
civil engineers. It is well known
that, for ; some years now*, the Agri
cultural t and Mechanical College has
not beeri able to supply the demands
made u|h>n it by the railroads and i ir
rigation .companies for graduates in
the cidll engineering course. The
same thing is now true of the eioctric-
al engineering course, so recently es
tablished there, and all these depart
ments hkve been so hampered by the
grudging parsimony of the State that
I for one am almost ashamed to claim
it as my alma mater when I meet
men from other colleges--who have
visited this junkshop, as onea>f them
characteki/«d its mechanical labora
tory. .
The legislature should not forget
that Senator Tillman of South Caro
lina in his recent visit to the college
declared that, compared with the
technical college of hia own small
State, its starved condition was a Jis-
grace to Texas. H. Hutson.
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Bug-Homers' Trip to Waco.
Thy following students of animal
husbandry, Kdsall, North Van Zant,
Oilbert, McLeod, Chambers. Burps,
A. C., Smith, A. J., Blackaller, Cut
ter.‘Mcl(il. McCowan, Jones,-C. K.,
and Evaps, in company with Prrifs.
MarshaPand Burns, have just return
ed from Waco where thev were the
guests of j Mann Bros, on “Wildair*’
stekic.far^n. «
1 be object of the trip was to ei-
speef the farm and’•tock, thereby get
ting somt idea of the real thing as
Worth stock show. Mr. Mann dis
cussed at length his methods of breed
ing and feeding cattle—the cattle
shown being ample proof of the fact
that he knows his businees. One of
the best calves shown us was a roan
short horn steer which he has lately
presented to our department of ani
mal husbandry here.
We were then called in to partake
of a fine turkey dinner served under
the direction of the charming person 7
age,'Mrs. Wesley Mann. Needless
to say every boy made a record.
After dinner we took a turn through
horse bams, seeing such horses as
old Alcye Wilkes, the sirs of the
famous trotting horse (Wsinscot)
which Mr. Msnn raised and sold for
$10,000. Wainscot has since lower
ed the trotting record in Europe and
is now in Italy. Wilda* farm con
tinues to raise the same kind. Mr.
Mann then had a d*ce lot of
jacks brought out and delivered
an interesting lecture on the case.
jacks, he
ld it ions re-
demand and
tule. We
machinery,
selection, and breeding
sides touching on tfaje-
lating to the production,
market of the Texas
then inspected the fa
including such machines as feed
grinders, gasoline engine, and up-to-
date wheat harvesting; machinery.
Everyone was impressed with the
nearness and precision of^system prev
alent everywhere.
'Twas With regretful hearts that we
mounted the tally ho at * five o'clock
for our homeward journey, each man
feeling that he had learned more in
the day than coubi have ibeen gotten
from books of. theory in Uonths.
'C. M. Evans.
ATHLETICS.
wa* de
ll have a
-collegiufe
m A com-
elect a cap-
far, they
‘he council
assistant
the college
At a meeting of ^he athletic
council Saturday night
termined that we
track- team at the
meet at Waco in M
mittee was appointed \
tain of the team, but, s
have chosen no one. '
made R H. Sandif,
Student manager of
baseball teant.-
Last Monday orders for baseball
uniforms, gloves, bats, etc., wetU
•bnt oat. The team Is expected
tp be in uniforms and practicing
With the new, outfit by March ist.
Qoach Spencer will arri ire on that
date and regular practii* will be-
.
The following men are trying
for their respective places on the
Wfm:
Pitchers—G. A. Smith. Huff,
^vfas, Dabney.
Catchers —t Wesseudorf. Hamil
ton. W. G. Moore.
First .Base— Cornell, DeWare.
Bmll.
d Base— Black, Hornsby,
de
done by-successful breeders in this
.•***<i ! I
By legvmg College Friday after
noon the night was spent in Waco.
The next morning at 8 o'clock Mr.
Mann h^d a large tallyho with big
stout mules and a jolly driver waiting
to carry as toit through the refreshing
morning air into what appeared to be
an ideal] farming country. And T
think I am safe in saying that ■•every
“Bug-hunter" had his aspirations
raised nnd his mind broadened as we
drove mwrily along the smooth road
way taking note of and making im-
patrial comparisons of farm homes
and also : of farming methods. The
climax w*s reached however, when
we ranched
in through the Urge automatic gates
at the fro^it up to the old-fashioned
homestead in the grove of great oaks.
The mat of the forenoon waa spent
in looking through Mr. Mann's splen
did herd of short horn cattle which
ave now . in propagation for the Ft.
Third Baso—Kelley, Lllinger.
shortstop—t-Huweiller, Jennings,
utfielders—Milligan. Crockett,
•art. Bittle, Moellenherndt,
niels, McRtroy.
is too early in the season for
life baseball schedule, but
es with Baylor, Texas Chris-
Univenrity, Austin Collef^.
Southwestern are certain.
awon opens with Baylor,
games being played on our
lond, March 29th and yoth.
ip out of the state for the
team is possible. Games will prob-
■W JpL plajed at New Orleans
with Tfolaoe, at Baton Rouge with
Louisiana State University, and in
M - <** 1-jaippt with both the Univer
sities of Mississippi and the Miss
issippi A. & M. College
_ —I nee a trip out of the state for
WHdmir" farm and drove the team and an interesting season
l ia assured we suggest that the corps
furnish the team with coats. Every
man could contribute twenty five
cents and help supply- the players
with a dozen good coats. Besides
adding to the* comfort of the boys,
the coats would improve the appear
ance of the team away from home.
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