The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-04-29
WORLDS FAIR BOOK.
The Review of the Great State
Of Washington.
A COMPREHENSIVE SOUVENIR.
1t Shows the Schools, Wealth, Indus
ducts Of This CommonWeal

TACOMA, April 25-TSpecial. To-day the
first sheets OF the Washington souvenir
Worlds fair book were put to press. There
will be 224 4x7-inch pages in the book, and
it will be entirely home production. For
the money paid, the paper to be used in
bringing out the souvenir is OF as good
quality as could, perhaps, be expected,
but it is not probable that the paper will
permit of good presswork, especially as
regards the cuts. Engravers and publish
ers would have liked better quality OF
paper stock, IN order to have had their
work shown to better advantage.
Sixty-six pages are given up to history
of the state and then follows an array of
resources. Public schools are given the
place of honor in Part H., following the
history, and of them the following state
ment is made:
Total school revenue for the year ending No
vember 80. 1892. $2s7s54s "a: of this sum. $780,
l3L52 special taxes; $10ls, 05S 65 sales of bonds:
from other sources. $3l, sos. 05: county appor.
tionment fund. 1904, S5l99.
Expenses for the year ending November 50.
1892: Teachers wages, Ss82, IS: rents. re-
pairs, fuel and incidentals, $377, 1882: school
sites. buildings, furniture libraries. etc. $1,000
$50 30; interest on bonds, $l24Sol redemption
of bonds, 81, 1S3 50; total, s.. 402. 27Z25.
Total present value OF all school property a.
follows: Buildings and sites, 1869, AL; iurni-
ture, $3i5, 1l770; apparatus. $9235S U.s. Libraries,
$ll,7-7.25; total, A,0Ss. 6i470; An increase over
1890 OF $2.0Ss, 80 Amount OF insurance ON
school property, 81, 4e4, 1877.
To secure permanent state fund for schools
there have been expended COO for surveying
aud plating lands, aud sales have been made of
school lands to the value OF s., 800 &c., OF which
$780, 90 have been paid into the state treasury,
the balance running at per cent interest The
cash payments already invested In county bonds
at an average of per cent interest. amount to
$365,00o, and the money on hand 10 being in
vested as rapidly as possible. The great area of
school lands yet nnso!d, gathering value with
passing time, is to form an irreducible fund.
and at present valuations this fund has now
reached the estimate of over $S5, &C., 900.
There are l.721 school districts since 1880 126
new schoolhouses have been built, making .
total to date of Isis, with $50 graded schools
Number of children in the state between
and p years o. age. loo, $780, OF which $3.50 are
enrolled in public schools; average daily attend
ance, 5O7l6; average monthly salary paid male
teachers, So 20; to females, $421a There are
1l2 defective youth i'll the state-a special 1nsti-
tuition for them at Vancouver.
The few excellent institutions We have com.
pare we'll with those OF any new state. Among
these are the state university at Seattle. state
normal schools at Elensburg and Cheney,
Spokane college, Annie Wright seminary at Ia
coma, Coupeville academy at Coupeville.
WILDLY island; Lynden college. Whatcom
county; Methodist college at Tacoma: Baptist
Grace seminary, Centralia; Presbyterian acad.
envy at sumner; Whitman college (Congrega-
tionai), at Wala Walla; Methodist college at
Olympia, and several excellent Catholic schools.
Next, there is q list of the state institu-
tions, and then comes the census from
1858 to 1892:
lS5S-Taken by United States Marshal J.