Show SALT LAKE COUNTY SCHOOLS The growth of our county schools In the last thirty years has been quite marked The school age at that time was from 4 to 1G the per cent oC attendance at-tendance up to 1S77 did not exceed 33 Under the supervision of O II RIggs the schools began to rise and school buildings began to grow There wore then fortylice school districts In the county The following from Superintendent Superin-tendent Klggss report might be oC Interest In-terest This report was given to the I County court March 6 1S77 t The average time school has been taught during the year Is eight months and twelve days which Is the longest term oC school In the county for the last ten years rho average dally attendance at-tendance Is 2060 this being 31 per cent of school population To accommodate the 4277 school children oC the city at that time thoro were but eighteen school buildings of these Prof Rlggs Bays The eighteen district schoolhouses school-houses In Salt Lake City will not admit ad-mit an average oC 100 pupils each except ex-cept by means oC mallet batteringram or otherwise they arc driven In edgeways edge-ways around the corners The organization of a County Teachers Teach-ers institute did a great deal toward building up the schools This Tras organized in the old University buildIng build-Ing on Fourth West The building was afterward used as a hospital In 1871 Superintendent Riggs was made president presi-dent with the following officers First vicepresident Karl G Maeser second vicepresident W H Rager secretary Miss S M Davis assistant secretary 31 S Horne treasurer Dr John R Park programme committee O IT Hlggs Miss S M DavIs and Robert Trlpp The institute met at the respective school buildings usually taking them In the order of their numbers There were generally two sessions held the same day Tho morning session being taken up by class exercises under the direction of one of the leading teachers I Their first regular programme was as follows 0 oclock class exercises Prof Rager Address fifteen minutes Karl G jNTaeser Reception until 2 oclock Address Capt J Witherell Essay R S Horne biscusslon < What is the Best Method of Teaching Elocution 7 The following is the rollcall of members mem-bers ROLL OF MEMBERS John T Caine Thomas Taylor John R Park T B Lewis James Dwyer R W Sloan O H Riggs John D H McAllister William Paul Jacob Heus ser Henry W Brown W H Atwood George Stringfcllov Isaac Harrison Alma Kendall Horace Cummings Eliza S Angell John William Snell Herbert Van Dam H A Woolley Eliza Slade Lottie J Claridge J H Ward WilliamS William-S Ball William B Child Henry Cou lam Kate A Miller Rebecca E Mantle Man-tle Josephine Taylor Samuel Oldham William Fuller 1L A K Watmough E B Trlpp Arthur Parsons R IL Smith J Z Stewart J Witherell W Van Colt Orson Howard Samuel Bate man Francis McDonald E E Ferguson Fergu-son Emma Rumel John M Young Annlo Macay Josephine Taylor Rhoda Slade Thomas S Higham Joseph T KingsBury Hyrum Barton The schools at that time were very poorly equipped as the following taken from the Institute minutes will show uJ Wltherell Invited the teachers to examine his revolving blackboard This consisted of a small box Inside of which are two rollers one designed for a chart the other for a blackboard A space is left in front of the hox through which the letters and words in the chart and blackboard can be dis i tinctly seen On motion of Dr Park tfie teachers agreed to use their influence influ-ence to have the Invention used throughout the county and Territory The great drawback to the schools was the lack of funds to carry on tho I schools various schemes and devices were introduced to raise money Purt of the school funds were raised from the sale of stray cattle In the year 1870 the amount so raised was G7S25 Most of tho funds were raised by tuition tui-tion and donation The appropriation from taxation was so small that the teachers lost 510 to 30 per month from that source and depended on tuition for the rest On account of tho lack of occupation of tho people of Salt Lake City the schools of tho county outside of the city had a higher per cent of school attendance than the city schools Prof Rlggs urged the consolidation the i city schools into one district but no action was taken at that tlnc Prof I Rigga was followed by T B Lewis I His first report shows an enrollment of thirtytwo male teachers and thlrty fib female teachers in tho fortyone schools of the county Today there arc about 600 teachers in the schools of the city and county The country districts or wards at llrst numbered but four Canyon Creek afterward Sugar House Mill Creek Ilolllday afterward Big Cottonwood and South Cottonwood schools had been organized organ-ized as early as 1810 as tho minutes t 1 of tho Big Cottonwood trustees will I show The list public school in what Is now known as the Twenty eighth school district wan started in the winter of 1819 by Abraham Ilunsa 1 leer assisted by Charles A Harper With Lyman Woods as teacher and I during ten years a school was taught 0 0 J each winter with various changes and t11d9 I I Without an organization l In 1S59 an organization was effected Charles A Harper Isaac Harrison and Duncan S Casper were elected trustees being the first school board In the Twenty t Sftv district Today theo are thirtysix I school distrlcta outside of Salt Lake City Thc school Population Is 75tJ with an enrollment of 6195 over I SG per cent There are 11S teachers ranging from I ono lo ten In cach District Farmers helng the largest district employs ten teachers and North Point with a I school population of but t wen tIle altuulns a progressive school Of the IllS teachers 100 were educated in Utah |