| Show utah moves forward among sister states in realm of education utah moved up sixteen places in rank with reference to the illiteracy of ages and 14 years during ill the e first ten years following the adoption of the free school system in the state according to a census rep report ort received from the department of commerce and labor by superintendent D if christensen ot of the salt lake CRY city schools the report covers the period from 1890 to 1900 in 1890 utah stood twenty fourth la in rank and in ISOO it had inott ino a up jb 16 eighth abe jabe J iia ce nebraska oregon iowa ohio kansas kangas indiana arid aad connecticut ate are the only states which lead utah at present massachusetts mas Is one step below utah louisiana Is at the bottom of the file list ranking as no 50 it dropped from forty nine to fiftieth during the ten years new hampshire holds former place as ar twenty fourth now wyoming made a big stride during the ten years 1 11 lumped jumped from twenty fifth place to sixteenth and other wes western tern state states show it a good gain in commenting on the showing made by utah the report refers to a very marked reduction of child illiteracy in salt lake city from other statistics in his big possession mr christensen has figured that utah ranks third among the stat es of the union in point of illiteracy taking the entire en tire population all ages into consid consideration cration herald |
