The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-04-17
EDUCATION.
Judge Snow Shows What Utah is
Doing for its Youth.
SALT LAKE CITY, April IA, 1880

A1GtOfo 4CfUtO
the 1 resume my pen sgain concernil
'er' the statistics furnished by the repor
ng; OF the county clerks and Auditor
{ is Public Accounts 10 our last LegisI.
me ture. But in this letter l shall ref
.uu to and condense what was found /
an an my other letters. and afterwards
ioi either IN this or some other letter, II
~ fer to facts outside of these reports.
:" 10 my letter of February 18th
1884, treated of what ia geneyall
called the burdens and wastes G
~ society, and found from toe report
~ that 1t costs annually to defray In
ne expenses of criminal prosecutions
ne little more than $66, COO. equal in IN,
ieI two years to little more than SJ32.
x 600; and on the subject of INSANITY
u and pauperism, including an esti
Is mated contribution by charitable
40 associations, the sum of about 800.
is OOO IN the two years, making an
u nually about $4,000, making for the
= TWO classes about $4,000 equal to
AZ daily expenditure of about $500.
&c In my letter OF the 18th of February
- l showed that to execute the registry
20 law it cost us little more than ST.
u OOO-about Sl4 per day for the two
Is yesrs, and that notwithstanding this
Is our civil taxes per annum DER capita
10 only amounted to about IS. 80, esti-
J, mating the population st 10000.
In my letter of the 23d OF February
l showed the amounts expended for
roads, canals and bridges in the Ter
rltory, excluding poll taxes, was $38,
} OOO per annum, equal in the two
. years to SIG. 600. | now remark that
d poll tax of So for each person liable
TO pay 1t will most likely amount to
that much more. II 60 it is equal to |
Sc. 600, making total of 1852. 900. |
In my letter of the 2Sth ofFebIusry
showed the amount of the expense
Of assessing, collecting and disbursing
the same, excluding the delinquency
for the territory and counties, was
about $50. 900 for the two years
equal 10 $4i 800 per annum, exclud-
ing city taxes and deliuquencies, but
that in myjudgment the delinquencies
would amount to about $50, 000 more
per snnum-equal for the two years
to $4,000 .
And in my letter of March I'd, l
showed that the school portion Of the ,
taxes for the two years amounted to :
little more than 1874, 000-equal to /
abount S67 900 per annum, express
ing the opinion that in deducting the I
delinquency there would be left for r
school purposes about $50, 1000 per :
annum. now say, to this last sum :
there must be added the allowance /
paid out OF the county treasury to the r
County Superintendent, all OF which, r
as shown by the reports, amounts to r
little more than 81, 600 per annum. +
To this add the annual amount paid =
by the territory, 1880, to Deseret 3
University (see appropriation bill, I
one-halt taken) 1850, and we have n
the sum OF SIS. 240 expended an q
nually for educational purposes out y
of the territorial treasury. In this
there is no account taken of money n
raised in the school districts, either a
for paying teachers or tor building or .
furnishing sohooihouses. h
The report of the Territorial Super n
intendenl OF Schools has now been +
printed and is before noe, hence l +,
state few things which that report y
shows. The annual expenditure for ;,
schools for the past two years as there
shown is $157, 697. The estimated
value of school property in the terri
tory is $568, 1884. SIZE report o. 46.
This was taken from the report of &c
the United States commissioner OF
education. Our superintendent, in
his report. shnzs the amount paid
teachers in 1878, the sum OF 1884,,
230.60, and in 1879, $98, 8S8.79- al
equal in the two years to the sum OF ID
$l38, 06s.39. See report p. 44,45.
This sum includes only the amount
paid to teachers in the district schools.
1 see, too, there has been raised for
building schoolhouses, in the past ..
two years, the sum of $50, 697. SO. y,
See p. II. He makes the annual u
expenditure for schools 1898, $3.50, L L
excluding the University and exolud- y
ing the cost of assessing, collecting, a.
retaining and disbursiug the funds.
This sum of 1898, 515.1O, with the
exception of about $67 1000, was
raised by the inhabitants of the
respective school districts. This 70
seems to me to be a fair showing. il
By the came report l find Superin- hi
dent I. B. Lewis, when speaking ia
concerning our law OF 1876, expresses II
himself as follows: 'In regard to any II
change in our school system l think b.
It far better 10 try to make our system te
more effective instead Of trying to r.
effect any radical departure from it. -
Our system is good and with proper Il
management we can accomplish the h
good We DESIRE" See p. 49. The d
Territorial Superintendent endorses a.
the same sentiment. See report p. Il
20. l add, Mr.. Editor, that in law v
c.earness coupled with frmness and Il
an adherence 10 principle will make b.
q good system which will command o.
respect. n
A few years ago We we're told that Il
the education of cur children was u
neglected. This was not without Il
some show of reason, yet, in my il
Judgment. it was not true ip fact. II
From 1850 10 1860, or about the latter p
date, there was an extent of country 81
to be defended Of about 500 by about a
600 miles, much of which was L
inhabited by Indians, Daring this
time the people were poor. not having
more than from 500 to $3.50 taxable
property to the person. To make a
living was about all they could do. 81
All goods not manufactured here and b
not produced had to be brought over 2
the plains by wagon transportation. II
difficulties arose on the plains among
immigrants not of US they had to be =
settled here. This increased the ex- =
pense Of the territorial government.
These unitedly diminished the means
that under other conditions might
have been applied to educational
matters. For the purpose of educa- 7
ton no help whatever has been given I
By the United States to the people of
this territory. This leads me to refer
to few historical events which have
influenced the system of education in
the states, and which have given tone
to the acts of Congress on this subject,
also to the acts OF congress. These I,
will appear in my next.
Yours truly, /
y Snow