Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-11-27
FAvoRINa BOND ISSUE.

In regard to the proposed issue Of
 bonds for school purposes, which the
 tsx payers are to vote upon newt Sat
 urdsy, it appears that great many
 of our people are under the impression
 that the $50,000 asked for, is to. be
 used in the erection of building who'll
 ly for the use of high school. The fact of the matter is, the trustees are
 confronted with the necessity of pro-
 viding more school room, both for the high school and grammar school, and it is the intention of the trustees, if the bond issue is voted, to use this money in the erection of s large school build ing in as near central location as can be obtained, this location to be select cd at Isss meeting of the citizens, and to allow the high school to use only such of the rooms as re absolutely necessary for that school, and the re- mainder of the rooms to be used by the grammar grades. Of course our high school now has only limited num- Der of pupils; however, We expect this school to grow rapidly, and in order to make it success, and have It ac' eomplish the desired purpose, We must have room and facilities, which are now almost wholly lacking. We admit that to invest the sum asked for in the bond issue, in building to be used exclusively for the high school, would at this time be hardly warranted, and an,,IJ ha iuatly criticise1
 While the new building would be erected with a view of being ultimately used as high school only, yet it would. for the.present be just IS much gram; mar school as high school, and as the high school grew from year to year, it would gradually take one or two more rooms at a time, until it eventually pushed the grammar grades entirely out of this buildinf provided the high school continues to grow, as we expect it to do.
 It is just as much the duty of your trustees to see that the necessary room is provided, as it is to see that teach. 1 CTS are employed, and you could certain. ly charge them with neglect of duty, l if they did not attempt to make provl- sion for necessary buildings.
 Some of the primary class are now taught only half day, on account of the lack of room, as one class will at tend in the morning, usin ga certain room, and another class will have the use of that room in the afternoon-such condition should certainly not exist in a city like Globe.
 Some of our teachers have as many as seventy pupils enrolled in certain rooms, and all of the rooms are crowd ed to such an extent that the teachers are unable to give the children the at tention they should properly have, hence the children fail to get that thor ough training, which we know our teachers are fully competent to impart, if We did not over work them, as 1t IS useless to expect the children to ad. vance, hen we give to teacher about twice as many pupils as they should have. .
 We fear that some of our taI payers hesitate about voting additional taxes, yet we were recently compelled to is. sue s40,00O of school bonds, and this year we understand that the tax rate is to be lower than in former years, as our taxable values are constantly in- creasing. Gila county now has an as sessed valuation of property amounting to, we believe, over $5,000,00o, and school district No. has a property val uation of between three and four mil lion dollars. The bonded indebtedness of Gila county, we understand, amounts to only $40,000 on account of court house bonds, and school district No. l has an indebtedness of $59,o0o on ae- count of school bonds heretofore is. sued. The total combined bonded in debtedness of the county and school district No. l, is only $99,00o, which is certainly a very small amount.
 Globe now has the reputation of be- ing the best business town in Arizona, and we hear on every hand the predic. tion that her population will double in a very short time, and can we afford to go on record as refusing to furnish