Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-01-11
COMPLETES
AN EDUCATIONAL
RENAISSANCE
Returns to Santa Fe After In
spectIoD Trip 10 School Dis
tricts IN Grant and Luna
Counties,

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Santa re. y. NJ, Jan. 10.-An edu-
cational renaissance In southern New
Mexico Was reported yesterday by
Superintendent Of Public Instruction
Avian N White upon his return with
his family from an inspection trip of
the school districts IN Grant and Luna
counties.
Superintendent White visited White
water, Hurley, Santa Rita. Fierro. Sill
vor city ana Pinos Altos In Grant
county Tie conferred with officials Of
the Phelps Dodge company and the
school authorities al Tyrone and IIur-
Icy and as d result two new buildings
viii be erected In those camps, as it
IL believed that fully 5000 people viii
make their homo IN the Burro noun
tains before the end Of the year be-
cause Of the extensive mining opera
tlons under way. AT the junction point
81 the branch road NJ Whitewater
with the Silvc- city branch Of the
Santa Fe, townste has been laid out
ana the new town viii have 500 or
more people before the year is UP.
Tho owner Of the t0wnslte has given
three acres for school purposes and
has let the contract for six bunga
lows.
A fourth teacher, too, had 20 be
employed az Hurley and an extra
teacher has been authorized at Santa
rita, where tho school building IL
crowded ana extra school accommo-
datlons have been provided az the
upper end OF the camp. The opera
lions OF the chino company have IN
creased the population Of Santa Rita
and vicinity 10 5000 or more At Fier-
70, modern adobe school house. TO
cost $4,000 viii replace the old g.
room frame building, although rlerro
"a rather quiet on account Of the coal
miners strike In Colorado. At Lords
burg, two rooms have beon ndded At
the State Normal school at silver city,
u f0ur-room addition 10 tho Manual
Arts building is completed and IS be-
ing equipped. The Silver City Manual
Training and Domestic Science de-
partmonts are among the best
equipped In the southwest
Efforts aro being made 10 consoi-
date the four school districts on the
upper ella and when that Is accom-
pllshed. it IS believed. that the average
school term for Grant county rural
districts will be raised 10 nine months
One tangle straightcned out by STU
peflntcndent white was tho number
ing Of the Grant county school dis
irlcts. II was the only county where
the districts were numbered the same
as the precincts no matter whether "a
precinct had three or four districts.
Tho new system adopted conforms 20
that of other counties, the districts
being numbered consecutively. begin-
ming with Silver city, No. /.
Luna county like Grant. has wo-
man county school superintendent,
and Superintendent White speaks we'll
OF their energy and their success AZ
Columbus, the new $500 building
will DO dedicated on February 0. The
other new districts are also putting up
buildings. AT Deming, the rooms in one
OF the buildings are rather crowded,
averaging forty-nine 10 sixty-one pu-
pills, and an extra teacher viii be em-
ployed. The directors also promised to
engage truant officer who viii en-
force the compulsory education law.