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Show SUMMIT COUNTY. The Educational Prospsct3 There. Kamas City, Nov. 13, 1875. Editors lUruld: Supt. C T. Mills and myself have been visiting the school districts of Summit county during the pest week, and about noon yesterday we arrived at this, the last settlement, which is situated about five miles from the summit of the Wasa ch range. We! visited the school taught by Mr. L. W. Pock in the afternoon, and delivered de-livered lectures on education before thu young people and school patrons in the evening. This morning wo intended to pass over the summit to Hcber city aud visit the schools of Wasatch county, but were prevented by a heavy snow storm. Tho snow is coming down most savagely, making everything in the shape of manor beasl "hunt his hole." AH fore-'noon fore-'noon to-day wo have not been able to I see across he street from tho res'i-i res'i-i deuce of Bishop Harder, where wo arc comfortably located in defiance of the storm. The snow is an average aver-age of about five inches deep, and drifting most terrifically. The bishop says we need not bo uneasy, for if it continues storming fur a day or two he will gopher a bole out through tho buow and bring in an ox and make us comfortable for tho winter. As we are fond of comfort and both beefsteak i;();nnoii,.i m.. eieUICUlO, HUH u;iolhh"vii"j I "i; posfd lo reluming any such propositions, proposi-tions, we may possibly see you again about next spring. We visited Echo and Heunefer districts dis-tricts first and gavo an account of their Kchtuil interests in a corres pondence to the Dwrel Xncs. On Wednesday morning wo visited the Coalville school, which is being taught by Miss M. J. Guff, a young lady of considerable ability. She has 104 pupils enrolled, mostly of a primary prim-ary clas?, which is a greater number 1 than any one person is capable of instructing properly. Tho trustees j expect soon to secure an assistant for her. Coalville baa a school population popula-tion of 274 children, and the total enrollment en-rollment last year was 150 pupils, leaving 121 children not enrolled at all. They collected a tax of about $1,000 aud kept their school open eleven months during tho past year. Tho schoolhouse is built ol rock and contains three compartments. compart-ments. Tho main part is oOx-10 feet, and contains thirty Triumph school desks, and is the room in which the school is now kept. The other two roomB aro each 14x30 feet. They have a map of the territory and a setof Camps' wall maps. Tho building build-ing and furniture is valued at $10,2(0. We visited Hnytsville in the afternoon, after-noon, and as they have no school in session at present, County Superin tendent U. i. Mills, wlio is a iso liic sunerintendent of the Sunday school, called the children together ami exe-cutedsome exe-cutedsome verv good singinir- Their conductor is Mr, Moses Wilkinson. Other very interesting exercises followed. fol-lowed. We held a meeting and addressed ad-dressed tho school patrons in the evoning. They have 103 children of school age, and had but a three months school k'st year, with an enrollment of only fifty-three pupils. The trustees have not yet given bonds, aud are also otherwise uidiflcrent in discharging their duties. The school house will accommodate about sixty pupils, and Bishop A. Winters is desirous that tho trustees should waka up, and have an additional school-room erected, that the children may all bo admitted iuto the school. The school interests of Wanshipare comparatively dead. Tiny forfeited their portion of tho public school funds bolh last aud this year. They have 123 children of school age, and a good rock school house, in which all the children can be accommodated. accommo-dated. They havo a neat little school house and forty-seven chililron in Rock port, and kept their school in session six months during tho past year. The trustees and peoplu appear to bo interested in the weifaro ol their children. They havo eighty-eight children of school ago atl'eoa,with moderately good school facilities. They had school for a term of three months last year, and paid the teacher $30 per mouth. In their educational interests they are not quite dead, but only sleeping. North Kamas has a neat little schoolhouse, with comfortable homemade home-made seats and desks, and will ac- rninnimlnfo hIvmW ftwLr nunll,! T1,D have thirty-nine children in the district, dis-trict, with an average attendance of twenty-two pupils during their six months' school Inst year. Kamas city has 136 children between be-tween the ages of 4 and 16 years. They kept their school open eleven months during tho past year at an expense of $502. Mr. Ward E. Pack is the leading trustee and hna evinced a considerable of interest in the school. They have recently built a schoolhouse 24x40 feet, with a 15-foot ceiling at a cost of only $1,300. Kamas, Coalville and Echo are the only district in Summit county, in winch we found schools in session. Some of the districts expect to open their schools by the middle of the month, others on the first of December. Decem-ber. We have not been able to visit the districts of Upton and Parley's Park, but I am able to state that those districts have neither sent in the school census nor school report to b the county superintendent. I havo mggested to the County superintendent superintend-ent nf nummnn oRnnto H.nf ll,.-,oo trustees be required to pay, to the ilistricLi they serve, the amount they havo forfeited of the rjublic school moneys, in consequence of their negligence, or that their bonds be looked into that they have given for the faithful discharge of their duties. The school population ol Summit county, in all except the two unreported districts, is 4S0 boys and 434 girls, or a total of 914 children, and of this number there aro now only 214 enrolled in school. Superintendent Super-intendent C. T. Mills is fully alive to tho educational interests of his county and desires to magnify his office, but tho schools of his county, during the 1 past year, havo not reached the excellence ex-cellence be desires. We wish to extend ex-tend our thanks to Bishops Clufl', Atwood, Richens, Winters, Harder and Roundy, and Messrs. Ryan, Lander, Seamons, Pherson, Wan! E. Pack and brother, and Messrs. Iiey-nolds Iiey-nolds .fc Carter and others for their hospitality, and for the assistance they afforded us in our travels through Summit county. Very respecfully, O. H. Eiaus, Ter. Supt. Com. Schools. |