Caption: Course Catalog - 1898-1899
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190 GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF COURSES solvents in extraction of gold and silver from their ores, (b) Methods of analysis of ores and products. 107. 108. INVESTIGATION OF WATER SUPPLIES.—In connection with INVESTIGATION OF FUELS.— State Water Survey. (a) (b) (c) 109. Heating power, calorimetric methods. Adaptation of bituminous coal to gas manufacture, purification of products. Coke and by-products. Corrosion and scaling of steam boilers. Purification of feed waters. Cements and mortars. Paints and pigments. CIVIL ENGINEERING SPECIAL PROBLEMS IN INDUSTRIAL CHEMISTRY.— (a) (b) (c) (d) 1. LAND SURVEYING.—Areas and distances by chain, compass, and plane table; U. S. public land surveys, including legal points involved in the reestablishment of boundaries; magnetic variation and determination of true meridian. The students solve numerous problems in the field with instruments. Bellows and Hodgman's Surveyor's Manual. I.; daily; 6 and 7; (s). Associate Professor PENCE. Required: General Engineering Drawing 1, 2 ; Math. 3. 2. TOPOGRAPHICAL DRAWING AND SURVEYING.—Topographical drawing is given during the bad weather of the first semester. During the second semester topographical surveying is taught, in which students solve problems with the plane table and the stadia, and make a topographical survey and plot the notes. This subject must be taken the first semester in connection with course 1 above, and the second semester in connection with course 3 below. 3. TRANSIT SURVEYING AND LEVELING.—Construction, adjust- ment, and use of the transit and level; angles, inaccessible distances, and areas with the transit; profiles and contours with the level. The instruments are in constant use by the students whenever the weather permits. In connection with this subject students may receive instruction in blue-printing, etc.; chemistry 22c. Baker's Engineers' Surveying Instruments. II.; daily; 6 and 7; (5). Associate Professor PENCE. Required: Civil Engineering 1. 4. RAILROAD ENGINEERING.—In the field practice the class makes
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