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HISTORY OF THE SULTAN SCHOOLS Forty years ago the logging firm of Hamilton and Morrison was cutting the timber where the town of Sul- tan now stands. A network of skidroads spread fanwise from a point on the Sultan river, with the outer roads passing through the present High School grounds on one side and the Grammar school grounds on the other. Instead of the snappy toot-toot of the present-day engine was heard the whoa, hush buck of the bull- puncher, as his seven yoke team wearily toiled towards the rollway with a turn of logs. A year or so later the same kind of operations were carried on over the site of what is now Startup. Those who dipped into the future as far as human eye could reach at that time could only see, at most, a one-room school house, a store and perhaps a church at either of these points within the life time of any one then living. When the townsite of Sultan was first surveyed, a new school district was set off extending to the King County line near what is now Baring. Of course, in starting a town one of the first con- siderations is a suitable school building, but the new dis- trict was without funds to build one, so the obvious course was to vote bonds for the purpose. However, a dif- ficulty arose. The up-river settlers had begun to see a little red school house on their own horizon, and on elec- tion day for two successive years they swarmed out like a lot of angry hornets and defeated the bonds. This mat- ter was finally adjusted by setting apart Wallace district, after which Sultan, almost unanimously, voted bonds to build what is now known as the Old School House. From that time-1888-development has been incredibly rapid, altho at first the district was much hampered for lack of funds. As late as 1896 two teachers, drawing salaries of 3540.00 and 550.00 a month, handled over 'one hundred pupils of all grades, while at Wallace, afterwards changed to Startup, a teacher was paid 340.00 a month for taking care of over fifty.
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STARTUP GRADE SCHOOL But with the rapid increase in the assessed valuation it soon became possible to raise sufficient funds by taxa- tion to lengthen the school term 'year by year from the modest three months to the present nine month and one- half term. At the same time new equipment was pur- chased and the salaries of the teachers increased. The development of the Startup school was so simi- lar to that of Sultan that the story of one is the story of the other, except in unimportant details. With up-to-date grammar schools in both Sultan and Startup the necessity for a central school asserted itself. The paving of the highway having solved the early transportation difficulties, and the growth of a broader outlook having disposed of other objections, the result is a Union high school at Sultan. Only those who re- member the shake school building of thirty odd years ago, which was attended by some half dozen pupils who frequently came over miles of forest trails, can fully realize what this advancement has been.
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