Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-11-01
GOOD SHOWING
FOR SCHOOLS
Six Months Term Is Practical
in Most of the
Districts
$4,000 ADDED TO FUNDS
Land Commissioner R. P. Ervien
Contributes Splendid Sum
to Educational Work.

Land Commissioner R. p. Ervien to.
day enriched the territorial treasury
with the handsome sum of $34,677.33,
of which $16,.9S goes into the COM
mon school fund, and the balance to
various territorial institutions, being
the proceeds of land leases. Terri
torial Treasurer M. A. Otero received
besides S25, one-half of fine for vio-
lation of game laws and $3.50 both
from Game Warden T. P. Gable;
S697,7S from Eugenio Romero, treas
urer of San Miguel county, and $29.
81 from Raymundo Romero, treasurer
Of Torrance county.
More Teachers Wanted.
Territorial Superintendent James E.
Clark is in receipt of requests from
school districts for more teachers.
More Water Samples.
Assistant Territorial Engineer Yer.
non L. Sullivan today shipped more
samples of water to the College of
Agriculture and Mechanic Arts for
analysis. The samples were from the
Cimarron, the Sapello, La Luz, Pecos
at Santa Rosa, Una de Cato, Rayado
and the Mora at La Cueva.
Change of Statutory Agent.
The Statehood Mines Company to-
day notified Territorial Secretary Ma.
than Jaffa that it had appointed Will
liam F. Hall of Hillsboro, Sierra coun.
ty, as statutory agent, to succeed Wal
lace H. Weston.
Good Showing for Public Schools.
On account of the proposition be-
fore the constitutional convention to
make the holding of five months of
school in each school district compul-
sory R. F. Asplund of the Office of the
Superintendent of Public Instruction
has compiled a table which shows the
number of months of school held in
each district of the Territory during
the past two years He found that in
most of the districts where less than
five months of school were held, there
were good balances in the treasury,
the directors evidently thinking that
good financial showing was of great,
ef credit to them than long term oi
school. In fact, it appears from the
statistics, that minimum term OF
six months would be possible in most
of the districts without compelling
the Territory to contribute any con
siderable sum to INDECENT districts
Last year there were 673 districts that
had five months or less of school,
while the year before there were 644
This indicates an apparent increase
of such districts, but it must be re-
membered that the total number OF
| districts is increasing constantly and
that during the last year the total
number of months that districts were
! short of the six months standard was
! 1888, the year before it was 1904, the
first named being equivalent to 305
districts without school, while the
ldtlef is equlNdleHI W o0A ulSIflCts
without school. Last year there were
162 districts that had five months OF
school, 163 had four months, 221 had
three months, 81 two months, six one
month and 81 had no school. The
principal delinquents were the coun
ties of Quay, Roosevelt, San Miguel
and Rio Arriba. The year before, 49,
districts had five months, 121 districts
! had four months, 211 districts had
three months, 80 districts had two
months, Is districts had only one
month and 1875 districts had no school
James L. Swain has been commits
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