| Show n n EDUCATION B By P P. P M. M NIELSEN Superintendent of Tooele Count County Schools The schools of Tooele county occupy a unique place in the school system of the state of Utah The county school district covers approximately square miles being about miles long by 75 miles wide including fertile agricultural sections sheep and cattle ranges mines smelting plants planes and vast salt and potash de de- posits Two transcontinental railroads railroads railroads rail rail- roads run through the district and with the resources mentioned above furnish the taxable property from which the schools receive their revenue revenue reve reve- nue for maintenance The school population of they the district districts is s 2289 There are twenty schools inthe inthe in inthe the district ranging from teacher one-teacher schools to a teacher seventeen-teacher school with a total number of 86 teachers employed Tooele county countr school district ranks rank among the richest districts of the state based on school population per capita assessed valuation The assessed assessed assessed as as- valuation of the district for 1925 1923 was With a school population for that year of 0 2125 1 5 the per capita assessed valuation valuation ion tion will be found to be approximately This is unusually y hig high when districts compared with most other of The thE state local school tax levy le levy lefor for the maintenance of schools is is among the theowest lowest in the state During the years ears |
