The building for this school was constructed by the Clinchfield Coal Corporation and is still owned by this corporation. Harvested||47, 597|. COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY. ENROLLMENTS, PROMOTIONS AND FAILURES. Corn is the County's principal grain crop. The most recent move along this line was the inauguration of an eight months' term for all elementary schools, which came into effect with the 1930-31 session. Many additional offices have been opened, and in spite of the fact that several have been abandoned, there are 27 at the present time. FARM TENANCY IN RUSSELL COUNTY - 1880-1925. Physical Address: Lonzo Lester, County Administrator. In either case administrative responsibility would be definitely fixed, and herein would lie the principal advantage of either over the present form of local government. The approximate amount of corn needed for human consumption in 1925, at 46 pounds per person, was 21, 357 bushels. RCPS - Board Members. A private institution, known as the Abingdon District High School was established at Hansonville in 1870 by George A. Frazier, and continued to serve that section until it was moved to Castlewood in 1876.
Furthermore, it meant that fifty-four counties of the State had a smaller percentage of their farms so situated. Harvested for grain (bushels)||494, 813||578, 570|. Vice-Chairman - At Large. In addition to this, 82 acres or 742 tons of corn were cut for silage, 141 acres were "hogged off, " and 1, 736 acres were cut and fed "in the rough. " These data are set forth below.
This coal mining operation, which is located at Drill, began business in April, 1917; and has today a capital stock of $44, 000. Coincident with the above mentioned developments, the County has endeavored to make a number of improvements in its various roads. In the first place, there is no adequate means of segregating the juveniles from the adults and the diseased from the healthy. All land in farms (acres)||249, 471||292, 397|. What appears to be most needed is a concentration of interest as well as of resources. Russell county board of education. Of the larger holdings not used primarily for agriculture, one is an area of 32, 000 acres belonging to the Clinchfield Coal Corporation. 69; whereas the true rate (the one which apply if property were assessed at its fair market value) was 71 cents. In 1929, it employed around 100 folks, who received an aggregate of nearly $109, 000, and produced products worth about $157, 000. It is evident that mortgage debt may affect that wealth of an area. While it might not be expedient to endeavor to overcome all of these deficits at once, it seems that a policy aimed toward eliminating at least a part of the deficits and producing a greater variety of products would be a desirable one for this particular area to adopt. There are no bath tubs or showers, and only a limited number of wash basins and toilets. The County of Russell has been in existence for a period of 145 years. Sleeping quarters are generally crowded.
The Company operates two switchboards in the County - one at Lebanon, and one at Honaker - and has connections with an additional switchboard at Dante, which is operated by the Clinchfield Coal Corporation. There is a County Board of Supervisors, a County School Board, a group of general County officials, an Electoral Board, a group of miscellaneous district officials, and a School Trustee Electoral Board, each of which functions more or less independently of the other. Oats (total acres)||7, 396||4, 968|. Since then however, a new heating plant has been installed in the Lebanon High School, and a separate Agricultural building has been erected at the Temple Hill School. 00 of which goes to the public free schools, and 50 cents of which is returned and paid by the State into the treasury of the County to be appropriated by its authorities to such purposes as they shall determine. Russell county board of supervisors va. In that report are these words: "There is nothing to commend the present form of county government in Virginia. However, the total number decreased to 20, 439 by 1910. Instructional Costs - 880. Non-manufacturers pay real estate, tangible personal property, truck and automobile, utility, and sales taxes. The number and assessed value of motor vehicles for various years from 1920 to 1927, inclusive, are shown below. 8 per cent; yet, ranked above her adjoining counties of Tazewell, Smyth, Dickenson, Wise, and Buchanan, which had only 11.