DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND ENGINEERING. iT 



pleased to see that since Prof. Durand has been in charge of the shop this 

 has been purchased. 



The work in the wood shop is principally educational, and has been 

 ■devoted largely to models. A large number of useful articles and a great 

 deal of repairing has been done, however. The work in this shop has shown 

 a steady improvement since the opening of the shop, due principally to 

 improved facilities. In the fall of 1885 the wood shop had but six 

 sets of tools, and students did what work was possible in the old brick 

 shop. In the fall of 1886 there were twelve sets of tools, and students 

 had benches in the new shop. For fall of 18S7 we shall have twenty 

 sets of tools and all conveniences ready for systematic work, so that the 

 work will probably continue to improve. There are at present three lathes 

 for turning wood. More are urgently needed, but will be supplied in part 

 or wholly by the iron shop. The shops made an exhibit of the products then 

 completed at the State fair at Jackson, 1886, and at the Central Michigan 

 fair, one week later: these exhibits attracted a great deal of favorable com- 

 ment. Mr. James Wiseman is foreman of the iron shop, and has been 

 since the shop opened. He is an excellent workman, and an able manager 

 of students. 



Mr. H. Campbell, foreman of the wood shop, has been at the college one 

 jear, and has amply proved his ability as a workman and a manager. 



ADDITION TO MECHANICAL BUILDING. 



I prepared working drawings and specifications for the addition to the 

 mechanical building. This addition consists of an extension of the present 

 shop sixty feet long, with an addition of a blacksmith shop 30x30 feet, one 

 story high. The lower story of the main shop is to contain a testing room 

 44x50x16 feet. The contract for this building is let to Eli Spross, contractor, 

 for $3,000. I am also acting as superintendent of construction. 



Steam Works. 



Mr. Richard Hiscock is employed as engineer and Mr. James Edgerly as 

 fireman. They have done all needed repairs for the steam works and a good 

 deal of outside work. Mr. Hiscock did most of the skilled labor on the 

 water works. 



The iron shops of the mechanical department rebuilt an old Niagara pump, 

 which had formerly been used for pumping, and this has proved efficient and 

 a very desirable addition to our steam pumping facilities. 



I prepared plans and specifications for two new boilers, each twelve feet 

 long by five feet diameter; the contract was let to the Lansing Iron Works. 

 The boilers are not yet completed, but will be finished and set before Decem- 

 ber 1, 1887. 



WATEK WOKKS — AKTESIAN WELL. 



Under the superintendence of Secretary H. G. Reynolds an artesian well 

 was drilled near the boiler house. The first flow was obtained at a depth of 

 105 feet, the main flow at a depth of 360 feet. The well was continued to 

 a total depth of 343 feet without greatly increasing the flow. The head was 

 sufficient to impel some portion of the water up to a total height of nine feet 



