Including special tax raised in Silver City, Inde-…
source date: 1890
availability: public-domain

Including special tax raised in Silver City, Inde- pendent school district, and poll tax, there was paid out in the last year in the school district $15,172 for school purposes. There are now 15 school houses belonging to the various dis- tricts in which they are situated; several more will be erected in this year — 1890. The school census of this year will show about 2000 chil- dren of school age in the county. The superin- tendent reports that the teachers, as a rule, are fully competent to fill their positions and that the school trustees have attended well to their duties. Grant County has no school debt. The county tax levy is 2*4 mills on the dollar of valuation for school purposes. There is no terri- torial school tax.