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fortable. Of the schools in Dougherty County, Georgia, Pro- fessor DuBois says :
I saw only one schoolhouse there that could compare in any way with the worst schoolhouse I ever saw in New England. Most of the schoolhouses were either old log huts or were churches colored churches used as school houses."
The following table offers a comparison of the number of schoolhouses, the average value of each, and the total value of school property in three of the representative southern states and three of the northern :
Number of Schools
Value of Each
Total School Property
South Carolina
4,oi8
$ 201
$ 990,OOO
Tennessee
7,l85
426
1.063.^68
Mississippi
6,687
256
1.636.0^5
New York
11,916
7.326
87.202.414
Iowa
I3.Q22
1.702
l8. 227. 740
Massachusetts
4.058
12,069
48,070,710
A second table gives a comparison of the wealth and school expenditure in the same six states: 12
Valuation of Real and Personal Property
Expenditure for Public Schools (Excluding Debt Paid)
Expended for Pub- lic Schools on Each $100 of True Valua- tion of Real and Per- sonal Property
South Carolina
$ 400.011.303
t 450.036
II. 2
Tennessee
887,956,143
1,526,24!
17.2
Mississippi
454 242 688
I. 100. 575
24.4
New York
8,576,701,991
I7.543.88o
20. 5
Iowa
2.287.348.333
6.-,82.q53
27. Q
Massachusetts
2.803.645.447
8,286,062
20.6
In North Carolina 108 new buildings were erected in 1901, and 332 in 1902. In the larger and wealthier districts the problem of building is easily solved; but in the weaker rural districts there is much difficulty to be encountered, as the school fund is barely sufficient to keep the school running. The problem is reaching a solution in many parts of the South through the ten-
11 Report of Industrial Commission, Vol. XV, p. 161. 11 Report of Department of Interior, 1901.
