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Identifier: consolidatedrura00okla (find matches)
Title: Consolidated rural schools
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Oklahoma, State Board of Education. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Schools
Publisher: (n. p.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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bonded for $11,000, and erectedand equipped a handsome two-story brick structure. It contains ampleclassrooms, cloakrooms, etc., on the first floor, and a spacious, well-seatedauditorium on the second floor. It is situated on a slight eminence in thetown of Springer, and can be seen for miles around, the town being locatedon our beautiful western prairies. This school was conducted last year bya principal (Professor Morgan), and three lady assistants. Splendid workwas accomplished, as an examination of their pupils will show. This dis-trict, as it was first laid out, comprised about forty sections of land, andhad a taxable valuation of $320,101 last year; the tax levy was 12 1-2mills; the scholastic census for 1909-10 was 258 white children and 137colored. Three separate schools, employing three teachers, are maintainedby the county for these colored children, in this district. The Wheeler district, while not so large as the Springer district, is one J9 > r>o n ^§ o W o en n oo
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20 of the richest of our school districts. Besides all of its valuable farmlands, it lies in the center of the greatest oil and gas district of southernOklahoma, and these interests, of course, are a large source of her wealth.The Santa Fe Railroad owns valuable possession in this oil and gas field.Wheeler has one of the most up-to-date school buildings in the state, ifshe does not lead in this respect. It was built at a cost of $6,000, and isheated and lighted with gas from the Wheeler oil field. The present termof school in the town of Wheeler was conducted by Professor Langstonand two lady assistants; a second school, which required one teacher, waslocated in another part of the district. Besides these, the county maintainsa separate school for negroes in this same district, making three schoolsand five teachers in all. The district contains about thirty-five sections ofland, with a tax valuation, from last years assessment, of $285,760; taxlevy, 15 mills; scholastic census, 170 wh

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