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Mines, became a full-fledged college
within the University. Jay Carpenter
retired as Director of both the School of
Mines and the Bureau of Mines and was
replaced by Vernon E. Scheid, the first
Dean of the College of Mines. Walter
Palmer also retired this same year as
Director of the State Analytical
Laboratory. Scheid, in addition to being
Dean of the College of Mines, was
appointed Director of the Nevada
Bureau of Mines and Director of the
State Analytical Laboratory thereby
becoming the first person to hold the
position as the head of all three
divisions of the school. Dr. Scheid was
also the first "academic" geologist to
head the mining school. He held a Ph.D.
from Johns Hopkins University and,
prior to arriving at the Mackay School
of Mines, had taught geology at the
University of Idaho. Scheid first
concentrated his efforts on the school
and the task of accomplishing the
transformation from an undergraduate-
oriented hard-rock mining school to a
modern college of mines with a strong
graduate program. He also, however,
began to build up the Bureau of Mines
staff and, by 1959, had increased the
staff from 2 to 8 members.
With the larger staff the need for
separate Bureau quarters became
apparent. In 1921, the U.S. Bureau of
Mines had established a research
station on the University campus
housed in a small building immediately
to the rear of the Mackay School of
Mines building. By the early 1950's the
U.S. Bureau of Mines found that they
had outgrown the 1921 accommodations
and moved to new quarters to the north
of the campus. As the U.S. Bureau staff
moved out of the old building, the
Nevada Bureau staff moved in, and in
1955, the Nevada Bureau of Mines had
its first official headquarters.
, The building was in sad repair, the
roof leaked, paint hung in curling strips
from the ceilings, and later, it was
found that some of the old chemical
laboratories were contaminated with
radon. They were stripped of furnish-
ings and made "safe" for occupancy. It
was, however, home for the bureau for 8
years. During this time, the Analytical
Laboratory continued to occupy
quarters on the second floor of the
School of Mines Building.
In 1953 the last of the University of
Nevada Bulletins, Geology and Mining
Series, was issued; No. 51, The History
of Fifty Years Mining at Tonopah,
authored by Jay Carpenter and com-
pleted 2 years after his retirement,
became the last of this series. Beginning
in 1957 publications of the Nevada
Bureau of Mines were issued under the
Bureau's name--not as publications of
the University of Nevada. Bulletins
were issued in numerical sequence with
the old Geology and Mining Series; the
first issued therefore became Nevada
Bureau of Mines Bulletin 52. Rising
printing costs brought about a new
publication series in 1961. Issued as
"reports," the new series was designed
to present information on more limited
topics, to be more timely in releasing
information, and to be less formal in
presentation than were the bulletins. In
1962 a "map" series was added to the
Bureau's publications. The map series
was at first dominated by commodity
location maps--15 separate commodity
maps were issued during the first year
of the series--but other maps showing
power and transportation facilities,
metal mining districts, land status,
status of geologic mapping, and
earthquake epicenters were also issued,
and in 1967, the first of a series of 20-
sheet-scale gravity maps was released.
THE MODERN BUREAU
By 1960, the activities of the
Nevada Bureau of Mines had expanded
to the point that a full-time
administrator was needed and Dr. S. E.
erome was brought in as Associate
Director. Dean Scheid, retaining the
title of Director, continued to guide the
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