Bisbee daily review., 1907-01-23

| two years. To be exact, the total money expended for our public schools was q. 1.052.sSs.37.
 | According to the annual school cen sus of last May, there were 3o,230 children of school age (6 to 21 years) in the Territory. In the previous year the census gave 29,29O. There is a steady and gratifying increase Gf our school population-the increase having been approximately 29 per cenr in six years-and the relative number of pupils enrolled and attending has increased in greater ratio.
 It is still subject for grave concern, however, that so many Of our children remain out of school, and that concern should not be lessened in any degree Dy the fact that the states generally make no better showing. Last year, for example, while we had more than thirty thousand school children, but 23,223 of them were enrolled in the public schools, and there was an aver age attendance of but HAAS. Thus while only v per cent were enrolled, and but G per cent of those enrolled attended. less than 50 per cent of the total number actually. attended any public school. Worst of all, after mak- . attended parochiai and other private schools, it is found that a total of 5,166 children of school age attended no school at all.
 The University.
 The University of Arizona is stead fly attaining higher standards, and steadily growing in popular favor and in influence. Within the past few years 1t has become an institution worthy of the pride of all good citizens of the Territory. We cannot yet com pete with the greater universities in offering more tempting salaries to in structors, but the faculty is, neyerthe- less, exceptionally creditable. The institution Is beautifully situated at the city of Tucson, the buildings are attractive and commodious. the equip ment is modern, and the opportunities for higher learning are good. These, with a climate which is perfect throughout the school year, affords | such advantages that the University is gaining students not only from all parts of the Territory but from many of the States.
 For the university year ended June i 6, 1906, there were POI students regis tered, and for the,.current year there are 226.
 The University has received annual ly from the United States government an appropriation of $25,O00, which hereafter will be S30,000, on account of the additional s5,000 appropriated for the experiment station. Territorial expenditures for the maintenance of the institution for the biennial period were: all ." H.sSstE
 In 1905 =. ... =. .S23, ,935.4l 1 In 1906 =. =. =. ..... 29,927.SO
 In addition to these sums received from the Federal overnment and from the Territory for maintenance, the ] University received also from the Ter ritory, during the biennial period, the following sums:
 Proceeds of bonds sold ?. $11 100000
 Specific appropriations for
 | improvements lS,64I "A
 For fuller details relative to the Uni versity I refer you to the report of the Board of Regents.
 The Industrial School
 Under the provisions Of an act of the Twenty-third Legislature. the man
 
 taken over by the Territorial Board of Control on the 1st day of July, 1905. Under the former law it was managed by a Board of Trustees. For the ifs cal years the net cost of administra- tion was:
 In 1905 .... w S22, ,159.64 In 1906 ..... .. ...... 17,367.5S
 The gross cost in each year aggre- gated about the same: S22,95419 in 1905, and S22, ,4O4.07 in 19O6-the net cost being arrived at by subtracting from the gross cost the sums received from the several counties on account of inmates therefrom-but in the last fiscal year there was a large increase of the number of inmates.
 In 1905 the average number of in- mates was 3S. .. .r... .. In 1906 the average number of 49. | Thus the net cost per capita of in | mates in 1905 was $5S2.60. In 1906 s355.77, while the number of inmates increased 29 per cent.
 The school has been conducted as | economically as possible with proper | regard for the needs of the inmates. The apparently high cost per capita of maintenance there as compared with the Asylum for the Insane of the Territorial Prison, if such a compari- son ought properly to be made, Is readily explained when we consider that the number of officers and em- ployees in proportion to inmates is necessarily much higher at the Benson School than at either of the other in- stitutions. Two employees, women, at Benson, are made necessary be cause of the four girls there. The two women employees would be ample for or 10 times as many girl in- mates as there are there, while one woman attendant would not be suffi- cient for the 4. And to some degree, but not to the same degree, is this true of attendants for the boys. The number of inmates could be increased two or three or more fold without in- crease in the necessary salary and wage expenditure. That expenditure, therefore, constitutes a much larger proportion of the cost of maintenance there than in either of the other in- stitutions mentioned, and of course increases the comparative per capita cost of maintenance.
 While the management Is excellent, the administration of this institution is necessarily unsatisfactory, and in my opinion must always remain so as long as 1t is attempted to maintain 1t