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EDUCATION
.L/ducation of the chddren of the Price River settlers began with Sally Ann Olsen offering instruction, first in the home of Matthew Simmons and later in the old LDS meetinghouse. When a public school district was organized in 1884, William Branch was elected chair of the district and Wdliam Tidwed was appointed the first principal. The multifunctional log meetinghouse continued to serve as the schoolhouse. By 1900 Scofield, Price, Helper, Wedington, and Castie Gate had their own school districts and boards of trustees. As new coal camps grew, they also formed new school districts. County voters elected a school superintendent who was responsible for distributing the tax money to schools throughout the county, holding a teachers' institute once a year, and certifying teachers.1 The school districts built schoolhouses in Scofield, Sunnyside, Castle Gate, Wellington, Helper, and Price. By 1898 Price had just over 200 students and the little schoodiouse was too small, so Ernest Horsley, bishop of the Mormon ward, began readying the log meetinghouse for a school and an extra teacher. The next year 259
