Show ihn iho schools of provo Spring springville ville spanish npaul sli nork fork pond town pay son nud aud San santaquin SANTAQUIN utah county feb 27 1875 editor deseret mews news our visit to the schools of or provo was accompanied with considerable disappointment provo being I 1 ng the county seat of utah county tinder under the direct influence of the county supt bupt W H dusenberry Duson dusen berry berny and the branch university we ex expected acted to find t the e sc schools of that at cit eit city eity in a much more ore pro prosperous condition than other places less favored provo is divided into four wards each of which is a school district there are three trustees to each district the responsibility thus resting upon each board of trustees being so small they have apparently shaken off du ability and the schools are left severely alone there are about 1000 children of legal school age in provo and but pupils are arn en tolled in the public schools this number added to students that are attending the gos branch of the university gives a total enrolment of this very small enrolment was not surprising when we ascertained a knowledge of tho the schools schoolhouses school houses and appliances when we entered the ard 3rd ward schoolhouse school house we were forcibly reminded of kit burns rat pit it is an octagonal concern with nests ali all around the walls their furniture school appliances and the methods of teaching in some of their schools might have been approved twenty years ago but not in this age of progress V I 1 was very tery glad to learn that the county court and city council are about to change the four districts as they now exist internee school district and thus place the whole city under one set of efficient trustees if they willlia this and consent to throw away the name university which is simply a fraud as applied to their high school and establish the graded system have the thid primary classes taught in the ward schoolhouses school houses and the intermediate 1 grammar and academic departments part ments taught in the university building much good might be accomplished complis hed and no additional expense the city of springville Spring ville is also divided into four wards with a school in each ward but they are all included in one school district under one set of trustees their school houses are much better fitted ted up with desks and charts but they have no maps nor globes nor other ether school appliances which are necessary to ma make ike gee their schools interesting te tr we soon learned that the classes in these schools were apt worried with close criticism nor lorex ex drill but they were left severely alone the office of a true teacher did not crop out very prominently in any of the public schools there the Spring springville ville high school taught by mr charles D evans evana is a success mr evans is a teacher of considerable experience which in connection with his scholastic attainments and natural n qualifications shows itself in his masterly way of conducting the school the city of spanish fork ia is divided into two school districts each of which contains a small but comfortable schoolhouse school house these houses are well filled with pupils who appear to be much interested in their work they are not instructed in accordance with the most approved methods still they are accomplishing much good the select school taught by mr geo goo H brimhall is in fine condition the house in ia which he teaches was waa built by the enterprising young men of span spanish 8 fork for literary purposes which is very much to their crait cruit credit it is 11 comfortably furnished with homemade deska to accommodate about fifty students every seat being filled with appreciative students who are advanced in the comfor common branches of education and who fully realize the advantages they have of being instructed by a teacher of superior ability the pond town school is a sham bug ifa if a person would beJu be j stifled in judging from appearances he would decide that the schoolhouse school house and furniture must have been placed there about the year one and very poor care had been taken of them all the school appliances that were in the school were furnished by y the teacher the trustees aro are in la a state of profound leth argy and the school is almost helplessly in the same fix gewere we were anxious to get away from this town as soon as its possible but we soon found ourselves in the bottom of one of f the ponds after which the town was named after a considerable effort wo we extricated ourselves and mustering up a new force of courage and determination we plunged into what looked like the old road to payson but we very soon soom found that the bottom had bad fallen out and we were compelled to take the new road which we found perpendicularly below the old one after considerable tribulation we arrived at the tile city of Payson which iball is all nil in one school district under one set of efficient trustees who are wide awake in the educational interests of that city they have four good schoolhouses school houses well furnished and well filled with bright children mr charles W wright of the ath ward is a teacher of considerable aini alil ability lity and experience which plainly showed when we examined his classes the payson high school is taught in the city hall which is beautifully fitted up for school purposes seated with the triumph desks IJ forty in number so that it will sea bea seat t eighty students it is one of the best schoolrooms school rooms in the territory and the school will be doubtless one of the leading schools if properly conducted for the material is there mr J ii townsand who has been engaged there as teacher for sometime some time is doing a good work but he would do a much better work it if he would pay more attention to discipline and llave have less self perpetual motion San has but one school which is well attended the teacher is rather antiquated in his way of teaching but he is doing pretty well considering the circumstances W H dusenberry superintend ten dent of common schools lor for utah county visited the schools of that county with us he is alive to the educational interests of his county and is determined to do all tha that t lies within his hia power to elevate the standard of her common schools utah county is su frering suffering very much in iu consequence of the lack of qualified teachers and the general query is why do we not have a normal sc school hooi hool yours truly 0 11 BIGGS territorial superintendent ef of common schools perhaps better late than never but our readers would have been better pleased if the mail had brought us this correspondence in one or two days instead of nearly a month ed NEWS newa smug smut in when wheat I 1 I 1 NEPHI CITY march 1875 editor deseret winter our faithful friend still lingers linger around us and seems unwilling to give way to its successor spring appears timid and annoyed at the tho long stay of the stern and cold monarch modestly refuses to contest for her ground but as the season fer for farming is approaching ng I 1 would beg of the intelligent fa farmers r ers to pardon me J if with your kind permission I 1 adv advance ance through your columns a few ideas upon a subject concerning their future benefit our farmers complain of the presence of smut in their wheat fields and as many devices have been proposed for the prevention of this evil it may not be considered out of place to suggest another experiment peri penn eri erl ment scientific discoveries rave eave have demonstrated beyond doubt that smut is produced from the seed that is sown and not from the influences of tho the elements that regulate its growth nor the time of sowing forbears eor for years the american farmer has imported at a high price a foreign wheat said to be free of smut the first year it does not prove so any longer after being sown on our soil sul sui subsequently but becomes no better than that of our own raising this imported seed wheat Is thrashed by the hands of the poor peasants of russia not by machine and when closely examined is found to be perfectly sound none of the grains having been boon kroken broken cracked or injured as is that which has passed through the machines it may be argued that good and healthy seed wheat may accidentally produce unhealthy plants but in no case can diseased or impotent seed produce healthy wheat the grain that has been cracked or partially damaged although invisibly to the eye may germinate in the earth and attain to a certain growth at which it should form itself into grains or heads of wheat but instead of which it proves an abortion not being capable of attaining to a complete state ef of maturity hence smut which is the result of this abortion and the con sequence of imperfect seed the tho farmer has noticed that sef sown or what is commonly called volunteer wheat is free or of smut this rather favors my theory for this wheat has not passed through the breaking up process of the thrashing machine or that of tramping out therefore is sound and uninjured and produces no smut except however what few grains have been damaged by wagon wheels when clearing up the crop winter wheat is less lesa liable to smut than spring wheat bhea from sprint sprent tm this I 1 conclude tb that th the 1 imperfect perfect and sickly wheat that would have produced the smut basteen has hag been killed being being weaker and unable to stand the winter whereas healthy heal thy germs survive and ripen it is a good preventive to wash seed wheat in a solution made of blue vitriol or strong brine and the sound and perfect grains of wheat will sustain no injury thereby while hile the broken and cracked grains will be so ad affected that their vitality or germ will be destroyed hence they cannot germinate smut is not contagious keep your seed wheat healthy nd sound and I 1 will insure your grain free of smut try the experiment it costs but little thrash a few quarts of your best wheat by haud hand not your whole crop and sow it at the same time and on the same land as that thrashed by machine then wait and watch the result CAMERA travelling Tra velling through klah utah jab aab billiard aud ard beaver and iron coun comi ties barometrical observations farming efah fish home products i donl dont ardine fashion A henvy heavy ger yost lost lne the wyach trach antene intense q old irrigation reservoirs coal beds nis bis gold discoveries great western iron works irim of the basin ranna KANNA rali bali march 10 17 editor deseret news the enterprising men that inaugurated and built the utah southern railroad seventy five nive miles south of salt lake city have edn eon berred a lasting boon on the travel ling public as some thirty miles of deep mud have been successfully bridged over and the danger of detention from such a cause made impossible the beautiful was falling gently as we left the metropolis and the surrounding country was hid from sight I 1 got the impression that some of our farms were getting run out growing poorer and came to the conclusion that a higher system tern tein of cultivation must be adopted 0 the limit of paying prod productiveness uc ti veness Is is almost reached nature requires that land as well as man must be fed our farmers must plow deeper manure heavier especially with brains to make g a success I 1 would respect respectfully runs runy suggest that some enterprising person start a fish farm near the point of or the mountain all such ventures pay in other localities on the truckee river I 1 visited twe two such farms they seemed to pay well in the first place you had bad to pay to visit them theta and if you wanted to fish from any of the ponds they charged you 50 cents each fish you baug caught pt rather dear fishing but a paying enterprise to the proprietor then the there Is the regular market and that is rarely glutted with the king boffl of fishes trout being neing provided with a barometer I 1 found the dugway at point of the mountain feet above sea level lehi feet I 1 cannot vouch for the absolute correctness of the measurement su au rement as a storm was prevailing I 1 n g g am american amerlean erlean fork and pleasant grove feets feet provo feet sl Spanish yanis fork feet rayson payson pays rays m 4 7 50 feet utah lake may be justly called the queen of our utah liekes set like ilke a diamond in a fringe of snow clad mountains whose sum mits pierce the ilir to the height of from to feet towering above them thorn all stands mount nebo the mounta mountain n chief of our utah peaks the factory at provo gives to that city eity a look of enterprise and that other cities would do well to emulate it is the peer of all such in deseret I 1 do not think eastern capital has helped that much at payson vast quantities of iron ore from gintic tintic were being loaded for use in our home smelters shelters sm elters instead of the Wy wyoming orning ore from rawlings raw Kaw lings it is said to be preferable to the imported article I 1 hope it will continue to prove so our home products should always have the preference we have but little to spare to buy foreign articles santaquin Ban San Is feet above the sea and york station feet is finally reached and here bendeth the utah southern in J juau juab valley nalley york is a thriving place of three log houses we dined at the slough grass hotel preparatory to taking stage for dixie douglas jerrold was once asked to write an article on marriage for the london punch it wa wal 4 as fol lows advice to persons about to marry dont ta to persons seeking a pleasure sure trip to our southern counties by stage at this season eletson 0 the they year earr would also say dont 00 oo do it i the roads were terrible we were four in number packed like herrings in a barrel barrei reached beached nehl cehi nephi Ne hi started out in a blinding snowstorm for levan station feet by this time we had got packed down in the bed of the wagon as tight arwe as we could possibly be it seems a lady from pioche who had been cha chajduga i ing a runaway husband all over utah was returning from the fruitless chae chase with profound disgust for our utah courts she had bad stayed over one night calculating to take the coach the next night having paid her faresse far oar eshe was determined to go ahead under tinder any circumstances where to vack pack her no one knew she looked in upon us in the bed of the wagon spying around she topped the trunk at the end of the wagon and piled in upon us some pounds of adipose tissue plus plu 8 a box 0 of it pigeons and a bundle bundie of young peach trees if my memory serves me MO rig right light ht her pronunciation smacked of tho the evergreen isle we who had bad never before been examined learned forwe for nor the first time our true characters and saw ourselves as others see us u free ot of charge we ex against the terrible time she would have it was only cong coni construed trued into persecuting an innocent wo man after pouring out her vials of wrath upon our devoted heads for an hour she finally relapsed into silence when all at once the wa waon wagon on gave a sudden lurch and bro lam iam borne and myself felt the weight of her imposing presence and found her in our japs laps more soft sort speeches and innuendos and we once onge more got her on the top of the trun trunk k by this time quiet reigned in warsaw we were stopped had lost the way the driver was on off hunting the road snow show everywhere the night was pitch dark three hours was spent huchting the track arld aad we fl nally finally got under way speaker colfax was once talk taik talking ilig in front of the salt lake house and he eloquently spoke of the stage who by accident was theoa thrown n into luto a river and hung on or manfully to the packs sacks of U S mail at the risk hi his life the subject was heroes in asvery day life our driver abe 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