Show OPPOSES SCHOOL consolidation 0 A andeeson An deison gives some reasons why plan should not be carried into effect 0 A anderson of sevier has submitted the following article on school consolidation with the request that it be published the citizens of cove held a meeting yesterday irid ird appointed two delegates to meet with the county commissioners ners on the ath of april our district is ii strictly against consolidation foi a rood good many reasons in the first place we think sevier county is ii not ready for consoli consolidation because there are no claigg corporations orations in ill sevier county such is i i sugar factory worth a qu arter of a 1 l million dollari or a pomar plant of equal value now because weber county liss his consolidated soli dated is no good reason why sevier county should consolidate consol conol weber count was nc irla compelled to consolidate in order to cover a half million dollars worth of property owned by the utah light power company and the rutih idaho sugar company these two properties are located in a section where there ire re but few children ind and in order to get the benefit for the schools on the taxes they consolidated utah county counts people are talking consolidation and similar circumstances prevail in that county but conditions are different in se vier county you probably noticed in last weeks reaper that our superintendent set up the claim that they wanted tt tte te e children of the smaller towns to h ve ive the same school advantages as boys and girls of the birger towns I 1 want to call your attention to that is set forth where the valuation alua tion is divided equally among the children of age in sevier county coie coe burville vermillion aurora sigurd and venice are arc the smal smallest lct towns in sevier seier county and they are pir fir above the average set forth in the article now in order to it ou would mould have to cut down the small tomi ton n and the larger ones anjer these conditions will it be better under consolidation for the school children of the small towns than it is under the present conditions 7 I 1 would like to know anat is 13 meant by the remotest districts where the alua tion is or where the population is the small towns have funds enough to hire good teachers but if we consolidate we hae not population enough to cut any figure in the election of trustees for that reason me w c would be obliged to tale the teachers they would mould give us from arom the financial standpoint it will cost more money to run our schools under consolidation soli dation than under the present lystel |