Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1911-02-24
STOREY COUNTYS COMPLAINT
Carson City. Nevada,
February 90, 1911.

Carson City. Nevada,
February %, 1911.
Mr.. w. w. Booher,
Elko, Nevada
Dear Sir:
In the Reno Gazette of February
p there is an item to the effect
that the Storey County Delegation
are sore at the Department of
Education for the manner in which
the State School Fund has been
arportioned and that they have
come back at the Department with
a bill providing for the repeal of
the school reorganization act of
1907, which created the office of
Deputy superintendent and placed
five such deputies in the state by
supervision districts to take the
place of tie ex-ofIiicio office of
County Superintendent that had
been existing, in name, for years.
ln-ordcr that you may arrive at
the correct reason for this feeling
| will state that the only way that
the Dcpartmet has he'd anything
to do with appointments of school
money to the injury of Storey
County was in 1908 when the State
Superintendent sent the Deputy
Superintendent fer the foulth
district 10 Virginia City tn :nvcsti-
gate the census reports that had
been turned in by the census
marshal and trustees of that town.
After due investigation the Deputy
was authorized by the State
Superintendent to strike from
the census list of Virginia City the
names of about half of the children
that were reported, it having
been shown beyond any doubt that
the census list was padded, and
that the census reports from that
town ! adj been padded for years,
and the school district had thereby
recc i"cd thousands of dollars that
should have been distributed among
other counties of the state.
Of course this made the people
of Virginia City rise in arms
against the new system" and ever
since that time there has been
great anxiety on the part of the
Legislators from Storey County to
abolish the plan of school SUPER
'ison and return to the old plan of
practically no supervision of the
state institution upon which the
state spends annually 5000
So much for events in the past
On February q, bill providing
for a new method Of apportioning
State school moneys to the districts
OF the state was up for final
passage in the Senate. The old plan
appointment gave to a fourteen
Dup!lc school in Sorcy County
1851, in Ormsby County $275. so,
and WashOe County $259.18. The
same sized school III Elko County
received only $l42.64, while in
Lander County il received
$l50.92, and other counties ranged
in order of amount so received as
follows: Eureka. Humboldt,
White Pine, Churchill, Lyon, Nyc,
Douglass, Clark, Esmcr aida. 1t
took thirty-five children in Elko
County to draw as much money
from the State Fund as five children
drew in Storey County at the
recent apportionmcnt.
Tho Senate bill referred to
provides that all schools in the
State of the same size shall receive
hereafter the same amounts from
the State Distributive School
Fund. This pain will deduct about
$1,000 year from the Virginia
City school fund, and for that
reason the legislators from that
town go wrathy and brought their
old time threats to a climax by
introducing an Act in the Assembly
or repeal about twenty seven
pages Of school law, iE fact az of
the law now exists pertaining to
public schools.