Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-08-08
Many and Good Schools Provided for Youth Of the Ter.
ritory. Public and Private Institutions.
Native Youth Anxious to Obtain Advantage Of Schoo-Teory
Doing all il Can Difficulties From Widely Scattered
Sections Considerable Progress Being Made in Education cf
indian Youth
Dv WILLIAM z. CURTIS
Special Correspondent ei the Chic scosd.

and an industrial school. There is an
advanced school in nearly every other
city under the care OF that church,
with property worth $343,5O0 and an
attendance OF 2,l11 students OF both
sexes last year.
The Presbyterians have twenty.
three schools-at Albuquerque, San
1 ia Fe and other cities, and In several
Of the Indian pueblos. They have forty
two teachers, $500 students and $94,.
05S worth of school property. The
Methodists have thirteen schools,
twenty-one teachers and 1892 students
In the several cities and on the Apache
and Navajo Indian reservations.
The school system Of the territory
Is under the supervision of board of
education consisting Of the governor.
the superintendent Of public instruc-
tion. the superintendents Of schools
in the four cities Of largest population
and the president of St. Michael's
college at Santa Fe. There are also
county and city boards of education
and superintendents of schools, and
several higher institutions supported
by the state.
The state university at Albuquerque
is a dreary-looking place, but has two
or three good buildings and about 120
students. In connection with the in
stitution is Chronological laboratory,
presented to the state by Mrs. Walter
Hadley of New York, for the purpose
of investigating the climatic effects
upon disease of various attitudes and
locations In the territory.
There Is school Of mines at So
zorro which Is said to be conducted
on practical lines and to give an ex-
cellent training to mining engineers,
who are much needed in this south
western country. While 1t Is intended
'especially to provide facilities for q
lthorough training in modern methods
of mining, the work Is broadening out
and the faculty is giving the students
general technical education.
| There Is an institute for training
, teachers at Las Vegas, which wrote
about the other day, and another nor
NAL school in the southern part of the
state, an agricultural college, mill
tary institute and school for deaf
mutes All Of these schools are sup
ported by taxation and have good
reputation. There are several Indian
schools supported by the government
and by religious denominations among
the Pueblos and the other tribes of
the territory. The Pueblos, as every.
body knows, are supposed to be des.
hn nf
Aztec race. They live In fixed vii
lagos and cultivate the soil. They all
have local governments OF their own
and system of administration which
is older than history and admirably
adapted to the peculiar conditions in
which they live.
There are three large government
schools for these and other tribes at
Santa Fe, Albuquerque and Mescalaro,
and local schools on all of the several
reservations. The Santa Fe school
Is the largest. 1t has been running
about fifteen years, has ten substan-
tial brick buildings and several minor
structures Of adobe, which have been
erected from time to time. Congress
made an appropriation OF $4,000 at
the last session for the girls dormi-
tory, which will increase the capacity
by about one hundred students.
There were 431 students In attendance
last year. OF these 256 were Puebl0s,
J 95 were Papagoes, Al were Navajos,
20 were Pimas and the remainder
from other tribes in the territory.
The Albuquerque school has about
three hundred students and that at
Mescalero about one hundred. More