Show STATESGHOOl CENSUS I s I e State Superintendent Park Has Compiled His Returns INCREASE IN THE NUMBER I PROGRAMME OF THE TEACHEBS MEETING AT PROVO Interesting Session Is Predicted Joint nesting of the Utah and Salt Lake County Teachers Which Will Be Held at Provo on Saturday Satur-day Nest Educational Matters In General Morgan County Teachers Institute Held Yesterday Yester-day Professor Whiting and Dr Park In Attendance The report of the state superintendent superintend-ent of public instruction for the school I year commencing July 1 1S97 shows the total school population in the state of Utah at 81882 a net gain over the previous years total of 2489 The aggregates ag-gregates are as follows Number who can read and write 79451 attend district dis-trict school 7a132 attend private school 2581 attend no school 9169 colored boys 107 colored girls 77 white boys 41061 white girls 40637 Number of deaf persons between 5 and i 30 years of age 51 blind persons same ages 20 The census returns of children between I be-tween 6 and 18 years of age compiled by State Superintendent Park show the following totals by counties and cities I Beaver 1258 Box Elder 3018 Cache outside of Logan 4766 Carbon 900 Davis 2773 Emery 1755 Garfield I 1084 Grand 211 Iron 1083 Juab 2180 Kane 6SO Millard 1760 Morgan I 704 Plate 651 Rich 664 Salt Lake county outside of Salt Lake Citv 6914 San Juan 172 San Pete 5212 I Sevier 2783 Summit 2899 Tooele 1514 Uintah 1628 Utah county outside out-side of Provo Citv 8093 Wasatch I 1628 Washington 1573 Wayne 676 I Weber county outside of Ogden 3146 On July 1st last the school population in Salt Lake City was 12957 Ogden City 5069 Provo City 2061 Logan City 2087 Total of cities 22174 Total To-tal of counties 59708 Grand total of i state 81882 Computing on a basis of the school population and at the average ratio of j school children to the entire census returns i re-turns at stated periods in the past the i I whole number of persons in the state on July 1 1897 approximated 271000 I i I |