wa and a w $45 the 30 t What a Former Carpenter I When I first enrolled with the I. C. S. for the Surveying and Mapping Course I was working as a carpenter, earning $2.50 a day. afterwards subscribed for the Civil Engineering Course. At the present time I am city engineer for our town here. I have designed and built practically all of the reinforced concrete structures that they have erected around here, and my salary has been increased very considerably. My position as city engineer pays me $1,200 a year; and besides this I have built up an extensive business along the line of civil engineering and structural work. I believe I enjoy a good reputation among men in my line in this part of the country. My education was limited entirely to common school work. I owe all my success to the careful reading and study of your Bound Volumes, without which it would have been impossible for me to make progress. M. E. BANNON, Marquette Bldg., Fort Madison, Iowa 14 Whe Kans., was ea work as ings an diploma examin expense OSCAR F. WEISSGERBER, 224 N. Oak St., Owatonna, Minn.; was working as a barber when he enrolled for the Surveying and Mapping Course. At the time he was earning about $6 a week. He soon secured a position on a surveying corps at $45 a month. He is now superintendent of construction for the Fielding & Shepley Company, having at times 60 men and 30 teams at work under his direction. His salary is $5 a day. DID NOT UNDERSTAND FRACTIONS When G. E. LINN, Stevenson, Wash., enrolled for the Surveying and Mapping, Course, his education was so limited that he did not understand fractions. He was working on a surveying corps at the time as a chainman at $40 a month. He has since filled important positions in irrigation work, the U. S. Reclamation Service, and as county engineer, receiving as high as $150 a month. He is now a successful engineer and surveyor in business for himself. OFTEN EARNS $10 A DAY PAUL F. MUELLER, Amarillo, Tex., was in the service of a mapping company when he enrolled for the Railroad Engineering Course. He says this has been invaluable to him, enabling him to take charge of various railroad engineering projects in Oklahoma and Texas, including a $200,000 paving job, a $40,000 sanitary sewer, and a complete purification plant and irrigation farm for his home city. His salary has never been less than $100 a month, and has often averaged $10 a day. INCOME RISES TO $2,500 A YEAR J. W. LAMBERT, Grundy, Va., was a timber inspector, 21 years old, when he enrolled for the Surveying and Mapping Course. He attributes to this Course his rise to the position of engineer for the Russells Fork Transportation Company and the Honoker Lumber Company, and other prominent concerns. His yearly income derived from civil engineering now reaches $2,500 a year. GRADUATE MULTIPLIES HIS SALARY When A. B. TALMADGE, G. A. R. Building, Leavenworth, Kans., enrolled for the Surveying and Mapping Course, he was earning $45 a month. At the same time he started to work as a rodman. Spare-time study has increased his earnings and brightened his future prospects. Since obtaining his diploma he has passed a United States Government Civil Service examination and now receives $1,400 a year, having also his expenses paid when absent from headquarters. Now Proprietor J. L. CORBIN E. K. RAMSEY CORBIN & RAMSEY Civil and Irrigation Engineers County Surveyor's Office STERLING, COLO. I had passed the ninth grade in a country school when I enrolled with you for the Civil Engineering Course, and I have not gone to school since. I can truly say that your instructions have made it possible for me to carry on the large amount of engineering connected with my position. At the time of enrolment I was foreman of a cattle ranch at the usual salary for that position. My present income is from $150 to $350 a month. I have not completed my Course, but I have studied through all of it, and use the Bound Volumes for reference. I find them to be as practical as they are complete. J. LLOYD CORBIN 16 |