130 Scientific Intelligence. 
abroad to obtain that thorough education and training in 
government institutions which they are unable to obtain at home. 
Importance of a National Mining College.—The establishmen 
of a national mining college would be one of the best or most ef- 
feetive means of securing the proper working of the mines and of 
promoting permanent and profitable mining enterprises, and thus 
tend to maintain a large production of the prec met 
cially from veins and dee cers, or wherever capital and skill is 
required. emination of accurate information regarding 
. The diss 0 
mineral veins and their contents, and upon the various methods for 
extracting and reducing the ores economically, would prevent much 
m. One of the prominent features of 4 
school of mines should be practical laboratories and metallurgical 
works upon a moderate scale, in which the students could take 
wise. ese laboratories would be miniature 
metallurgical establishments, where ores of all kinds, “docile” oF 
“rebellious,” would be received, experimented upon, and treated by 
the best methods, while the theory of the processes would be fully 
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