THE WISCONSIN FARMER.



and rising from fifty to three hundred feet
above the level of the surrounding country.
On the east side of the river it has been found
to extend over large portions of sections 6 and
6, comprising a length of about one and a
miles, with an average width of over one-half
mile, and rising from fifty to one hundred and
fifty feet..
  What the ultimate value of these huge de-
posits may prove to be, can only be fully es-
tablished by more minute examination and
practical tests; but from the specimens we
Nave seen, there is hardly a question but that
they will prove of the highest value, in loca-
tion, they being only thirty miles from the
lake, and in the quality of ore they contain;
while they will be easily opened and cheaply
mined, as the railroad within one year will
pass up the valley of the Esconawba. directly
between them.
  But while iron is thus being found, and
roads constructed to bring it to the lake, many
more vessels must also be built, or it will be
wholly out of the question to place it in the
lower lake markets.  Let there be a corres-
ponding amount of work done in this direc-
tion.

  NEw GOLD MxNss.-By telegraph under date
of August 15, accounts come via Los Angelos,
of the discovery of a very rich and extensive
gold mining region in the San Francisco
Mountains, lying east of the Colorado river.
  The La Paz and onther recently formed
mining companies on the Colorado have been
deserted for the new mines. The latter are
described as a new California.



ED UC ATIONA L.



   Thle Agricultural schools of the Country.
AS SEEN BY THE EDITOR ON A RECENT TOU R OF
               OBSERVATION.

                  NO. II.

         TIHE PEOPLE'S COLLEGE, N. Y.
  It may be objected that this is not an Agri-
cultural College, and should not, therefore,
rank among institutions of that class. But
inasmuch as one leading object of its estaV
lishment was that the youth of the Empire
State might be furnished with the facilities
for acquiring a more thorough fitness for the
practical duties of industrial life; and since
the institution is now especially pledged or
behalf of Agriculture by the acceptance o:
the magnificent Congressional grant of lands
for the endowment of schools for the benefli



of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts; and
since, moreover, no one of the so-called Ag-
ricultural Schools of this country is strictly
and exclusively professional, it has seemed to
us that the People's College should rank with
that class, and nowhere else.
  This Institution was incorporated in 1864,
but, by circumstances of one sort and anoth-
er, was kept in abeyance until January 8th,
1857, when it was located at the village of
Havana, in Schuyler Co. The organization
was deferred until August 12th, of the same
year, when Rev. Amos Brown was chosen
President.
    WHAT THE PEOPLH 8 COLLEGE PROPOSES.
  The distinguishing motives which have
prompted to the organization of this institu-
tion are declared to be,
  1 "The belief that a modification of the
college system of this country is required, to
adapt it more perfectly to the wants of the
time."
  2. "The complete success of Seminaries es-
tablished in European countries for the pro-
motion of the sciences and useful arts, on
plans similar to that of the People's College."
  3. The belief that "institutions of this
class, generally established, would perfect our
common school system, by affording ALL an
opportunity of continuing their education
while learning a trade or pursuing agricul-
culture; thus remedying the great evil which
now compels a large proportion of our youth
to discontinue their scientific and literary
education at the age of twelve or fourteen
years, in order to become farmers or mechan-
ics.'
  In order that these objects should not be
lost sight of they were definitely and point-
edly named in the Organic Act by virtue of
which the Institution acquired a legal exist-
ence, as will appear by the following quota-
tion from section 8 of the original charter, to
wit:
  "It shall be the duty of the said Trustees
to so arrange the business and courses of in-
struction in said college as to accomplish in
the best possible manner-
  "1. The dissemination of practical knowl-



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