THE MICHIGAN COLLEGE OF MINES

Location. The Michigan College of Mines is located at Houghton, Mich-, igan. It is situated in the heart of the great copper mining regions of Lake Superior. In the immediate vicinity are a number of active copper mines, among them several of the largest and most extensively equipped mines in the world. The deepest shafts in the world and the most powerful machinery employed in mining are here in constant operation.

Besides the mines there are the necessary docks, railroads, mills and smelters. To all these the student has access, and he is required under the direction and supervision of his instructors, to visit and inspect these plants and their operation at the proper time during his study.

History. The Michigan College of Mines was established by an Act of the legislature of 1885. The Act was entitled "An Act to establish and regulate a Mining School in the Upper Peninsula."

Most of the students of the College have been from Michigan since it is a Michigan institution, but it has trained men from all parts of the United States, and from a number of foreign countries in both hemispheres.

Purpose. The Act establishing the College of Mines provides: "The course of instruction shall embrace geology, mineralogy, chemistry, mining and mining engineering, and such other branches of practical and theoretical knowledge as will, in the opinion of the board, conduct to the end of enabling the students of said institution to obtain a full knowledge of the science, art and practice of mining, and the application of machinery thereto."

Buildings and Equipment. The laboratories and the library of the College, together with all lecture and recitation rooms, at present occupy nine buildings.

Hubbell Hall contains the laboratories and lecture rooms of the Departments of Mineralogy and Geology, and of Mathematics and Physics.

Koenig Hall contains the laboratories for general chemistry, qualitative analysis, and for special work, together with chemical lecture room and the necessary recitation and supply rooms.

The Mechanical Engineering Building contains the rooms used by the Departments of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering.

The Ore Dressing Building occupies a slope on the eastern side of the college grounds, which gives the necessary fall for gravity processes.

The Mining Engineering Building has a tower in the center which carries a large steel tank at the top. This provides a water supply for the Hydraulic Laboratory which is located in this building. There are eight floors in the tower which are used for experimental work in hydraulics. There is also in this building a mining engineering laboratory, a very large mapping and instrument room, a model room, and mining lecture room.

The Metallurgy Building is equipped with furnaces and apparatus for laboratory work in assaying, metallurgy and ore-dressing. There is also a collection of ores, metallurgical products, refractories and fuels used in demonstrating the lectures and for study.