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UNIVERSITY O F ILLINOIS.

Mining Engineering.—1. Attack.—Tools, implements, machinery and explosives, with principles governing their use. Methods of boring, sinking and driving through hard, soft, wet, dry, loose, or compact material. 2. Timbering.—Objects, methods, etc.; framing, fitting, bracing. 3. Transportation.—Underground haulage, hoisting, use of chutes; apparatus and applicances, cars, tracks, switches, cables, cages, motive power, connections; haulage in inclines, "man-engines," etc. 4. Drainage.—Pumps, pumping, sumps, ditches; drainage of working shafts and inclines. 5. Ventilation.— Means and appliances. Importance of subject; laws of various states and countries. Discussion of fundamental principles and practical applications, with results. 6. Buildings and Machinery.—Hoisting apparatus, air compressors, power drills, etc. 7. Exploration,—To determine general character and extent of deposits, in advance of development: methods and aims. 8. Development.—Blocking out of deposits to prove values of partly explored ground, and to prepare for further explorations. Exploitation.—Laying out work; winning of coal, ore, etc.; stoping, overhand and underhand; winzes and intermediate levels; economical handling of product. Methods to be employed under various conditions. Dislocations.—Faults, upthrows, downthrows, feeders, leaders, rolls,, swells, etc. Means of overcoming difficulties. Dressing of Products.—Coal screening and washing; sampling and grading: ore; assorting, crushing, spalling, cobbing, concentrating. Mining Machinery.—Elements of construction, designing of plant, combination of parts; setting, arranging, adjusting. Preservation and operation, general economy. Organization—Economy of management. Secondary superintendence ; division of labor and adjustment of responsibility. Prevention of accidents. Administration.—Review of principles. System of reports from sub-officers, and tabulation of records. Accounts, forms, analyses, pay-rolls,, cost sheets, etc. Letting and measuring contracts. Miscellaneous details* Engineering Geology.—Applications of geology to engineering and mining. Nature and distribution of deposits of economic value, as coal, water, metallic ores, etc.; advanced structural geology and lithology; discussion of principles underlying successful working of mines, placing of foundations, setting of machinery, and erection of structures in various situations. Relation of geological structure to drainage, economy of working, selection of points of attack, methods of exploration, etc.

APPARATUS.

The d e p a r t m e n t h a s a valuable collection of models of mining and metallurgical machinery. The newly equipped l a b o r a t o r y now contains a very complete line of illustrative machinery, designed for practical use, a n d covering a wide r a n g e of metallurgical processes. The machines are operated by steam power, a n d include a p p a r a t u s for crushing, screening, washing, concentrating, leaching, precipitating, a n d m a n y other methods of ore t r e a t m e n t of t h e l a t e s t m o d e r n types. I n t h e manipulation of these machines, and t h e t e s t s m a d e on a working scale, t h e s t u d e n t is afforded o p p o r t u n i t y for