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Show THE NEEDS OF THEJ CACHE COUNTY ' SCHOOLS , - ' . .. The County BAafil of lfnpatlon hag nlkcr rfucedfbo dUflrult vtrlf blcm as that' or providing modern high school fu'cllltlofor tho ever Increasing In-creasing nunuTcT'of high nch'o'ol stu-dentB stu-dentB In tho colinty. Practically nil children arc now finishing the eighth grado at IB or 16 years of, age and nttendlng Hchool until they are 18 vi-arti old, ' Thte nro C22 pupa In the" eighth grade of the' county Itased" ou this enrollment it l8conrratUer to estimate esti-mate tho enrollment of eachof the Wgh tchools, South Cocho and North Cache, at 400 In 1921 and 400. in 1922. Building cotts hiivo advance ho tiiat-'400,000 will go" little further-now further-now thau' i50,a00 Uld u fuw years ago. A twelve room grad6 butldlng such M 'wils tAiTif Tn Smltlitleld' In vlOll, cost $32,000; "such a building Would now cost $90,'000. ' " ' For the North Cache High School wo wlsn to provide fifteen class rooms;" nn auditorium and gymnasium. gymnasi-um. This- will cotH $200,000. The present South Cache high school building cost $r2,000.' The same building built toduy would cost over ?100,000. They need an auditorium audi-torium and a gymnasium whlcVwIll costal 10,000. ' '." Tho other schools named tu the bond notice need additions and lm-proevments lm-proevments which will bring tho, total Wrf 400,OW.ir'''-''-i,''i",,-VV , Tho Board of Education contemplate contem-plate lBSUlrig a series of bonds which should appeal to tho tnvpayer of this county ns thu one best suited lo our need. It calls for $20,000 of these bonds to inuturo each year during the twenty-yenr period. At tho end of twcntyyears tho bonds will all hive been paid off. Thu Interest-on tho whole issue would bo 120,000 ino first year and would decrease by 91000 each year thereafter. v 'The first year It would take a 1 1-2 mill tax to pay tho Interest on the total bond Issuq and redeem the first 120.000 installment- of bonds, as the assessed valuation of tho district Is Biifhtj'y" over' 126,000,000. la tea years XT mill tax would cover the amount needed for principal and In-terest. In-terest. A 1 1-2 mill tax amounts to $1.50 on an assessed valuation of A. - ' ' 1,000, or 3 oa f 2,000 assessed valuation, val-uation, As.,8upt. Chllds pointed out In a recent letter, Cacho is tho only district dis-trict of tbo' more populous counties la tho statewithout well furnished high schools. Box Elder hag a high school worth 1300,000 ailil is planning plan-ning on expenditure of another $200,-000. $200,-000. Davis county hns an excellent high school worth at least $200,000. Utah county has high school build, ings worth approximately $1,000,000 Logan has spent $130,000 for bor high school. If built under present conditions It would undoubtedly cost $300.000., Tho "Cacho district hOB spent $52,-000 $52,-000 for tho South Cacfio building and $15,000 for tho grado building now occupied by tho North Cache High School. This latter bii'ldlng Is now badly needed fo' "grado school pur-posoa pur-posoa for which it waa Intended. A county llko Cacho that stands first in tho stato in so many things, cannot afford to bo second to any in tho caro, training and opportunity given her children. |