In eighteen ninety-one Superintendent Cox made a separate record for all certificates issued, which plan was generally followed until nineteen hundred five, when the new law was adopted that changed the issuance of certificates to the state superintendent.

The first state apportionment, made January first, eighteen ninety was five hundred twenty dollars and thirty-five cents. There were twenty-three districts and five hundred and eighty-two pupils in the county. The July apportionment was twenty-three dollars and one cent more than that of January, there was one more district and twenty more pupils.

The growth of the schools of this county is shown by the records of the present day in comparison with the above. There are eighty-five districts in the county, and a total of twelve hundred and nineteen pupils. There is a shortage of teachers to go around

if all the schools held their terms at the same time. Only eighty-one teachers are available. Six of the schoolhouses are of sod, five of logs and the others are frame, except one of stone. Nearly all of them are in good repair. There are no districts without funds to maintain four months' school -- the minimum required by law.

The state apportionment, due to increased revenue from the school lands is now higher than it was prior to nineteen seventeen. While commissioner of public lands and buildings in nineteen seventeen and eighteen, this writer inaugurated a new policy which has been followed since, a higher valuation of school lands. The result is that nineteen twenty-one apportionment from the state is nearly two dollars per pupil for January, or a total of twenty-three hundred fifty-eight dollars and sixty cents, as compared with approximately one dollar as shown by earlier reports. In eighteen ninety it was less than eighty cents per pupil as shown by the apportionment of July fifth.