Show educational PROGRESS IN LN UTAH THE til biennial report of the rial superintendent t of redistrict district schools presented in the house on friday is a very comprehensive document which when printed priti ted will form a valuable pamphlet to all who dearo desire reliable information on the educational status and prospects of utah h we llave gleaned a few 0 items from the report re port which we think will prove interesting to the public it appears that the school population it that hat is the number of children between the ages of 6 and 16 at the close of the year 1879 1679 was and the enrollment or 66 per cent that is 68 per cent 0 of f the thu entire school population attend the district schools during some bome portion of the year the average daily attendance during tho year was or 47 per cent of the school population comparison n with the statistics of former reports shows a gratifying increase nod noc only of the school population but of enrollment and average daily attendance the number of days that school was taught during the year ranged frum from to the average being there are ara district schools in lu utah an increase of 46 since the last report the number of mal mai 0 teachers employed therein is and of female teachers the amount of territorial school tax for 1879 was of which hum sum ilas lins been allotted to tho the alveral counties howarda towards the payment of teachers the L avera aveta average 1 6 amount odthe of lne the local taxes during the past two years ia is 08 of building fund 28 23 adding to this thu iho salary of the territorial superintendent 1500 find and for stationery and aud incidentals with i the eurn turn of 75 low loo estimate of the amount for private and mission schools ech beh thele there ia is expended annually 1 tor for school in utah the sum of 10 the total value of district property ia is and of private schools property making a total of the value of school property in the territory ol 01 0 1 57 n the superintendent makes some important suggestions to the aa As in relation to the school lanis given by the government to the territory on paper but which have nol not been given in jaet jact and on the necessity of memorializing memorial izing con congress contess ross toss on this subject also du on tile the propriety of passing a law in reference to the title to land claimed d as school lands by trustees on e which meeting houses have been erected BO so as to 10 ald aid in settling all such disputes and on the besu best geni eral itral plan of erecting schoolhouses s with their ther necess necessary accommodations and many other important subjects the superintendent gives reports from tho the deseret university atso also r the brigham young academy at nta provo und the brigham young f college at logan founded by the gentleman who whose e name they bear and offers somo some timely hinter as to aid for the provo institution which he hd ril lil highly ohly eulogized eulogizes from counties principally interested we wo have not undertaken to give i a synopsis of the report but only w to offer a few points from it as us a big brg guide to th ose oge who wish to to the educational condition of this T territory when the report Is it will be oata obtainable b by y those thosa who take proper interest in such matters the facts and figures it contains form the best refutation that can be giveins given of the falsehoods falso faleo hoods that are circulated in regard to school affairs in utah we oo 00 not expect that those who repeat year after year the slander blander that ahe the 11 cormons mormons Mor mons 4 talfe no inhere Inte reet t iii in the instruction of the young and that there aio aia aro are ilg no schools in utah but those of christian missionaries ft ill be any the less lesa mendacious in conse quence of the tho publication of the chii truth but the tha data in this report will be sufficient buffi clent to correct in all ali candid minds that see it the ini im f pres slon which has been made for the basest purposes and with the most mercenary object that there are no no means provided by thi sTeril sterll tory for the education of its children utah will stand comparison with a any n y ot other h er 8 section e C tion 0 of f cheoun the oun try with similar population and and shine glorious ly in alae the contrast contra sr |