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zation and management of an Industrial College in tlio United States. 

 'Nov would a college so organized and managed as to meet the require- 

 ments of such an institution in the State of Michigan, Pennsylvania, or 

 'New York, meet the demands or accomplish the objects of an Industrial 

 College in California. A student so thoroughly educated as to be able to 

 take an intelligent and leading part in the development of the most 

 important industries in France or German}^, or in either of the States 

 named, would be required to forget much he had learned, and take new 

 lessons in our college, to be of much use here, or to occupy- a like impor- 

 tant or leading position in the development of the principal resources of 

 California. It is true, a Universitj- mai/ be established and so equipped 

 with professors and facilities as to be able to take its students to the 

 utmost limits of human knowledge in all its various departments j but 

 such an institution is more of an idealit}" than a reality. The most 

 liberally endowed and thoroughly appointed universities of Europe do 

 not pretend to this, even in theor}^, and certainlj^ they do not and cannot 

 accomplish it in practice; and the best of our colleges and universities — 

 Yale, Girard, and Harvard — with endowments ranging from a million 

 and a half to two millions of dollars, and with from forty to fifty pro- 

 fessors each, can scarcely be compared in thoroughness and efficiency, 

 especially in the scientific departments, to the better class of similar 

 European institutions. 



An Industrial College, then, such as we arc about to establish in Cali- 

 fornia, must, at least for the present, be more limited in its objects, and 

 should partake in an eminent degree of the qualities of utilit}' and prac- 

 ticability. It should be made to conform in a most rigid manner to the 

 subjects necessary to the development of our leading and most imj^ortant 

 resoiu'ccs. It should, however, be the aim and purpose to so organize 

 and equip it in the beginning as to render it competent not only to lead 

 students to the limits of human knowledge upon the subjects of agricul- 

 ture and the mechanic arts, mining in all its departments included, and 

 both taken in the most extensive sense, but also to so fortify them with 

 all the sciences in any way connected with or tributary to these arts or 

 industries, as to enable and prepare them to go on in advance with origi- 

 nal investigations and experiments, and thus become leading scientific 

 inventors and discoverers in the anomalous and almost unlimited fields 

 presented for study and practice, in these departments, on this coast. 



In the establishment of an Industrial College for our State, or for the 

 Pacific Coast, California should and doubtless will be the pioneer in this 

 enterprise west of the Eocky Mountains; the representatives of no par- 

 ticular industry or locality should be selfish or contracted in their views 

 or actions. The agriculturist should remember that we have on this 

 coast not only the most extensive mineral regions known in the world, 

 but that we have a greater variet}' of mines of valuable metals embraced 

 in an equal extent of countrj^ than has been or probably can be found in 

 any other part of the globe. That these minerals found are so combined 

 and intermixed with each other and with worthless matter, as frequently 

 to resist the most skilful attempts to separate and successfully and eco- 

 nomically work them, by the api)lication of the most a])proved methods 

 known to men best versed in the analytical sciences applicable to the art 

 of the metallurgist. That the location, dip, and anomalous positions of 

 our mineral bearing ledges frequently confound and disn])])oint the most 

 scientific and skilful raining engineers the world has produced, and cause 

 ruinous outlay of labor, time, and means. That for the want of men 

 prepared by study and practice upon the ground to select or manufacture 



