Washington State University - Chinook Yearbook (Pullman, WA)

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FRANCIS A. THOMPSON, E. M. The miner’s pick shaped the corner-stone for the foundation of progress and prosperity in the west. To-day, technically trained men are adding to the structure so firmly founded. To meet the demand for men to plan the progress and success of the great ventures, the Washington State College School of Mines was founded and for eight years, its graduates have gone forth to con¬ tinue the work already started and unearth the riches of new fields. From Mexico to Peru, from British Columbia to Alaska, State College assayers, engineers and metallurgists are in the mines, mills and smelters. The work of the School of Mines follows the two main branches of the old time profession, Mining and Metallurgy. The first dealing with the extraction of ore from the ground and the second, the extraction of wealth from the ore. Tunnelling and timbering, assaying and milling, ore dressing and metallurgy are taught in the Mining Building at the foot of the college campus, while geology, chemistry, mathematics and surveying and other subjects in the courses are taught in the college recitation halls and laboratories. Each summer finds students of the State College School of Mines working in the mills and mines of Goldfield, the Coeur d’ Alenes and British Columbia. 22