The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-01
STATE SCHOOLS.
Free System That Is Accomplishing
Great Good.


The schools of state are its bride.
Upon their efficiency must depend the
usefulness, the culture and the pro-
gressiveness of the rising generation.
Each recurring year finds new school
buildings erected, better teaching abil-
ity employed, better scholarship attain
ed. Utah, in its promotion of this be-
neficent agency, is sending out each
year a class of young people better
equipped for the duties of intelligent
citizenship, and a higher regard for
duty and the eXactions that the age de-
mands.
According to the state superintendent
annual report, made July l. 1898, there
were, of children between and Is
years of age, exclusive of cities of the
first and second class. who could read
and write, "a, 1856; of those who attend
ed district schools, 81, 100; private
schools, 1,709; of those who attended
no school, 7,1S4; colored pupils. ia;
white. pupils, 60,S79; deaf. between 5
and 80 years of age, 4S; blind. same
ages, s; increase of attendance for 1898.
5,O51 There were also enumerated
Indians. 70; negroes. 90; Hagaiians. %:
Chinese, 6.
In Salt Lake. ogden. Logan ana
Provo, of those who can read and
write, 1920; of those who attended
school, 1855; attended private schools.
9S9: of those who attended no school.
S,049; colored pupils, Sc; deaf. between
3 and 80 years Of age, Il; blind, between
5 and 80 years of age. ,; increase in pu-
pills for the year 1898. 414
Number OF school houses owned by
districts 1853: rented, 139; total. COS;
$40 schools of primary grade; 416 gram
mar grade, IA high school grade: total.
$50; number of teachers employed:
Male, 43S; female, 527; total 965: of chill
dren over school age there were $50
boys and 227 girls; under school age.
151 boys and 16S girls; total. 319; grand
total, 51,971; number of children attend
ing school for the first time. 6,551; aver
age number of days each has attended
school: Boys, 090; girls, So; average
number of children in daily attendance.
Of school age; Boys, 1880; girls, 1850;
total, Sc, $40; average number belonging:
Boys. 1922; girls, 1917; total. S7,94S;
number of graduates from grades:
boys, $50; girls, 36S; total 54S: amount
of compensation Of teachers. $32S. 23S;
average monthly salary of teachers:
Male, $53.37; females. $3Z1S; school
buildings erected during the year. So;
cost of same. $S4, 252.S9: value of school
property: Grounds, $1O6. 46S; buildings,
1869, $40; furniture, 1923 1854; appar-
atus, $50. 6S3.66; total, $1.161,97S.70.
In cities of first and second class,
average daily attendance. highest
monthly during the year: Salt Lake.
II, 1913; ogden, 1873; Provo City. 1888; Lo-
gan, 652. Amount of compensation paid
to teachers in Salt Lake, S151, 547 80:
ogden, 81, 334.S0; Provo, S10945.SS: Lo-
gan, $S,094.S5; average monthly salary
for teachers in Salt Lake: Males. S99.71:
females, $63.66; ogden: males, $3.50; fe-
males, S47.00; Provo: males. $52.59; fe
males, $39.53; Logan: Males. $685. fe
males, $34.42.
Total valuation of school properly in
these cities exclusive of Salt Lake.
$442, $50; school buildings erected in the
four cities during the year: Salt Lake.
/; cost, $56, 1851; Ogden, 1; cost, 49,,
AZ L. PrnNn 1 . cost 81 100 o.