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Main Building: "The new reading room on the first floor of the annex to Science Hall affords a strong attraction for the book worms and the more studious members of the School. The room is fifty-two feet long and twenty-six feet wide. Around its walls windows are scattered, having a transparent area of 286 square feet. The room is situated so that it is flooded with sunlight from the first golden shaft of the rising sun to the rosy shade of lingering twilight. The furnishings are made of the finest hard wood and the ample reading matter, including the standard mining, monthly and weekly periodicals also daily papers, are of the more solid type. There is an impressive atmosphere of refinement in the room which reflects creditably upon those, whose appreciation of the privileges it brings, is shown by their daily visits."

1904 St. Louis World's Fair features two relief maps of the Black Hills, winning the Grand Prize in recognition of their high quality. The large map is located in the Devereaux Library, the smaller in the Museum of Geology [Stymiest, Ruth Anne. "Centennial: An Illustrated History, 1885-1985". 1985, pg 28] Information from The Aurum v. no.3, p. 19 and The Aurum v. no.3, p. 20 1904 “A mineral collection made up of Black Hills minerals, ores, and fossils was sent in 1904 to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis and was awarded a grand prize.” [Black Hills Engineer. Vol. XI, No. 1, January 1923 Pg. 29] June 23 1905 - Regents defer the consideration of the purchase of relief maps of the Black Hills. [Ninth Biennial Report of the Regents of Education of the State of South Dakota to the Governor for the Biennial Period Ending June 30, 1906, Fiscal Years 1904, 1905. 1906, pg. 228] June 24 1905 - President S.W. Russell, of the South Dakota Louisiana Purchase Exposi...

THE HARDROCK Volume V., Number 3, Page 1 Rapid City, South Dakota, December 15, 1938 James C. Ewing, Rapid City architect, has been retained by the Regents of Education and the State Engineer to draw up plans for a new building to house the library, the museum, the administrative offices, and the departments of geology and mineralogy. Provision will also be made for the College Supply Store, a modern fully-equipped kitchen and large dining room with lunch counter and soda fountain. A new coed lounge will also be included to replace the present very unsatisfactory quarters in the old first building. The building as planned will be 160 by 60 feet with three wings on the rear, each forty feet square. These wings which will give the building the shape of a large E can be extended further to the rear at some future time if additional space in this building is needed. http://dlsd.sdln.net/u?/sdsmt,1910

The metallurgical laboratory is a two story brick building 60 by 138 feet in size. It is occupied by the department of mining and metallurgy. Here are the assay laboratory, the cyanide laboratory … and the large metallurgical laboratory, the latter containing steam engine, small smelter, ore roaster, stamp mill, concentrating tables, one of the best equipped metallurgical laboratories in the United States. [Aurum, June 15, 1902] Images from 1916

First class consists of a faculty of four men and 20 students. [Twenty-Ninth Biennial Report of the Regents of Education of the State of South Dakota to the Governor for the Biennial Period Ending June 30, 1946, Fiscal Years 1944-45 and 1945-46, Transmitted to the Legislature at the Thirtieth Biennial Session, 1947. pg. 423]

January 23-24 - Regents grant extra compensation to Harold B. Goodell for services as ground school instructor, to teach the subject of Civil Air Regulations. [Twenty-Seventh Biennial Report of the Regents of Education of the State of South Dakota to the Governor for the Biennial Period Ending June 30, 1942, Fiscal Years 1940-41 and 1941-42, Transmitted to the Legislature at the Twenty-Seventh Biennial Session, 1943. pt. 40]

January 21, 1885 - Council Bill # 57 introduced by S. Pitt Wells to locate, establish and endow a School of Mines for the Territory of Dakota [Dakota Territory, Session Laws 1885, Chapter 133] March 17, 1885 - Territorial Governor Gilbert A. Pierce signs Council Bill #57 [Stymiest, Ruth Anne. "Highlights of the History of Public Higher Education in South Dakota". 197?, pg 16]