In the same year Platteville was conditionally selected as the site of a school, and as ther^ was already a productive fund of about $600,000, with an income of over $30,000, and a prospecf of a steady increase as the lands were sold, the board decided upon the policy of establishing several schools, located in different 'parts of the state. In pursuance of this policy, there have already been completed, and are now in very successful operation, the Platteville Normal School, opened October 9, 1866; the Whitewater Normal School, opened April 21, 1868 ; the Oshkosh Normal School, opened September 19, 1871, and the River Falls Normal School, opened September 2, 1875. Each assembly district in the state is entitled to eight representatives in the normal schools.