Year. TABLE 18.—(1) School expenditure per capita of population; (2) same per capita of average attendance. TABLE 20.-Wealth and school expenditure, 1900 and 1904. West Virginia. 659, 652, 551 681,982, 120 485, 678, 048 936,000, 450 355,742, 969 1,365, 130, 718 956, 672, 000 774, 682, 478 557, 581, 543 815, 158, 003 2,322, 151, 631 604, 218, 211 463, 307, 150 348, 272, 643 5,019, 004, 453 2,606, 493, 004 6, 976, 476, 400 2,654, 281, 523 2, 405, 354, 427 2, 513, 620, 826 3, 367,869, 054 3, 244, 532, 987 542, 380, 565 552,732, 580 1,626, 203, 203 1,938, 000, 363 613,897, 157 281, 432, 079 938, 170, 624 268, 285, 425 263, 015, 492 412, 656, 095 190,626, 987 276, 374, 806 781, 599, 063 632,879, 729 3,218, 573, 255 a From United States census reports. Excluding Indian Territory. c Expenditure in 1900. d Expenditure in 1899. a Including unpaid principal due on contracts for purchase of school lands. Approximately d Limited to $1,000,000 by constitutional amendment of 1902. e Half the Western and Atlantic R. R. and some stock of the Georgia R. R. 1 Oyster lands; &mount not known. g Constitutional minimum price, $10 per acre. |