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...estimated that the camp expenses for the eight weeks, which will include an individual saddle horse during the last two weeks, when the party will be travelling through the high mountain area, will be $150. The Department Faculty will recommend that the tuition for one-half course will stand as it was last year, $20, and for a full course $30. The other necessary expense will be travelling to either Ouray or Creede, Colo., and return...
Last year's party consisted of fourteen men who, during the first three weeks of their work, made a geological survey of an area of nearly 200 square miles. During that time they were organized as a Government party doing actual geological work in an unsurveyed region. After visiting a number of the important mines and milling plants in the district, the party, with a light equipment, went with a pack train through the mountains. Detailed work, followed by the trip through the mountains, made it possible for the men to not only become familiar with a large number...
...building is three stories high and contains 25 rooms for research and instruction work, five of which are under ground, and will be used as constant temperature rooms. One room, 32 by 44 feet in area, is to contain a storage battery of 100,000 volts for investigations involving constant potential. It will be the highest voltage storage battery in the world, and will require the solution of many problems in insulation and switching devices...
...work of filling in the already-drained land beyond the Freshman diamond in the vicinity of the shooting range has been proceeding rapidly this spring, and will be continued during the summer. With all these improvements it is expected that a fairly large area will be ready for use next fall...
...result of this work, the Athletic Association has decided to install one test drain of a style advocated by Mr. Goodnow and the work on this will be done this summer. This one new drain will be sufficient to make two or three acres of the waste area usable, and these will be filled in as soon as the drain is installed. If the trial proves successful, other similar drains will be installed gradually as the demand requires until the entire field is reclaimed...