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Directory of Ogden City and Weber County.
have been in session surpassed twenty-nine States, prominent among which are Maine, Vermont, Delaware, and others of the older and leading States. In actual enrollment Weber County surpassed thirty States, among which are Maine, New York, New Hampshire, Connecticut, California, and others too numerous to mention. The average monthly pay of teachers surpassed nineteen, being about $56 on an average per month.
Ogden City is noted for having the finest school building in Utah as well as the best regulated common school system. This building is of the modern style of architecture, constructed of brick and lumber and trimmed with white free stone, the whole being surmounted by a beautitul dome of the Roman-Corinthian style. It is a two-story building, being about 54 x 70 ft. ground plan. It has four large rooms capable of seating about 90 pupils each, with five recitation rooms and a large commodious hall running through the center of the building. The basement is devoted to a heating apparatus whence the whole building receives its caloric in winter. The house is seated with the best patent desks and is well supplied with school apparatus, including a fine piano and organ. It every successive year receives the graduates coming out of four other public school buildings, located in different parts of the city, and having a seating capacity of about 100 pupils each. They are also comfortable buildings, being well supplied with the best patent furniture and general school appliances. The schoolgrounds are ample, well protected with fences, and each has a beautiful grove of shade trees connected with it.
The schools are graded up to the Central School and are under the management of a principal (Prof. L. F. Monch) who in turn acts under three active trustees. There were eleven teachers employed during the winter