Arizona citizen., 1872-09-21
PUBLIC SCHOOL PROGRESS.
Report of the Trustees for School District No. 2, Pima County, A. T.

Report of the Trustees for School District No. 2, Pima County, A. T.
 To l.. c. Hughes, Superintendent of Public Instruction tor Pima County: We herewith submit our report from District No. 2, for the first quarter commencing March 4, and ending July 10, 1872, period of four months and six days.
 The average attendance of pupils during this period was of boys, twenty eight, and of girls, three total thirty-one. The progress of pupils during the limited time that the school was kept, was rapid and beyond our anticipation, and highly satisfactory to both Trustees and pa rents, commenting to our appreciation the official exertions of our teacher, H. B. Summers, to whose labors we are much indebted for the success of the cause of education in our district. At the close of the quarter, we found pupils able to read, write and translate Spanish into English who commenced in the alphabet. We regret our in ability to continue the school, owing to the limited means at our disposal, correct account of which you will find hereunto annexed as part of this report.
 In order to raise the necessary means and with & view of accom- modating those parents anxiously de- string to educate their children in the English language-the advantages of which none more highly appreciate we submitted the question of special tax for school purposes; but owing to some misapprehension, an election was opened and held at but one poll in the district. All the votes cast were in favor of the tax and the election car ried, and the special tax might have been legally enforced, but the small ness of the vote and some trihing in formality decided the Trustees not to enforce any special tax, and to await the collection of the county tax for school purposes, hoping to ob- tain sufficient from this source to maintain at least one school in the district for six months or more; and then submit, if necessary, the ques- tion of special tax, which we believe would be voted and willingly paid, owing to the strong desire of parents to educate their children to speak, read and write the English language. Our district embraces settlement on the south side of the Gila River from one to two miles in width and twenty miles in length, in which we I estimate there are at least one hun dred children of suitable ages to attend school; and to accommodate this number of children scattered over such space of country, at least two schools should be esta blished as soon as practicable; Say one at San ford and one at Florence, where & majority of the children reside, and this we would recommend as soon as practicable and the school fund will admit of. We are desirous of pro- noting by all practicable means in our power the cause of education, and to this end desire your cooperation. Respectfully, D. c. THOMPSON, HILL DEARMITT,
 Trustees of School District No. 2, Pima County, Arizona.
 In relation to the above report, we may add that a private note accom- panying it says that statement of the necessity for Q school room, with seats, desks and other furniture, was inadvertently omitted. The finan- cial exhibit shows receipts of $22S, and that this sum was expended in paying the teacher and room rent, and that there is yet due the teacher $2O2 also small sum for books.
 The report shows fine progress on the part of the pupils, and an excellent disposition among the people to main tain public schools, and is in accord with the spirit manifested here and in fact in all other settlements of the Territory.
 HON. FREDERICK WATTS. Com missioner of Agriculture, has our