Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-05-13

On the suppositiou that there are sir mil
hons of dollars OF taxable property in the
county, a tax Of fifteen cents on each one
hundred dollars will produce the sum Of
$4,000.
In the Virginia School District the per
cent. will be a trife below thirteen cents, and
in some Of the smaller districts the per cent.
will be somewhat higher.
This tax will not be considered burdensomc
on the county for school purposes, when 1t is
understood that the county school tax for
each Of the two preceding years was but NJ
teen cents on each one hundred dollars,
whereas the school law allowed a tax Of
thirty cents. The annual sum for the past
two years from the school tax amounted to
| about $1,000, about $1,000 more than IS
allowed for the salary of one county officer,
and about one half the sum annually expend-
ed on the County Hospital.
San Francisco, with an assessment roll OF
about, one hundred millions Of dollars, has a
school tax of ~thirty;frc cents in gold coin
equal 10 about forty-Seren cents in currency
on each one hundred dollars, and there are
in California about a half a score Of counties
tina. levy a gold coin tax Of thirty cents-equal
10 forty CENTS in currency-and yet are un-
able to keep their schools open but a little
more thar half the year. There are now ten
schools in the county and ten teachers.
There we're enrolled in the month OF March
on the school registers 4S7 pupils. There is,
in addition 70 the above, a pressing necessity
for re~-opening the schoolf for colored children,
closed some months since, we understand,
by the old Board OF Education, on account OF
pccuniary considerations only. Tn School
Census Marshal Of this county returned
loo persons between the ages OF six and
eighteen years, and also l35 between the ages
Of four and six years, so OF whom, ut least, OF
the last named class, we are credibly inform
en-, would attend school were facilities pro-
yided for their accommodation. The same
report returned ia persons between the ages
Of six and eighteen years who attended no
| school whatever, and the probability is that
| these figures do not fully represent the num-
Der of that neglected class. This unfortunate
condition Of affairs should not exist. The
public cannot well afford to allow this mass
Of ignorance to grow up in its midst, to
ripen into vice and crime to vaccinate
the well.meaning, well-trained and we'll
guarded children with the virus Of their
own vicious conversation and demoralized
habits. Our educational facilities should
be enlarged rather than diminished.
| Provision should be made for the education
ofall, and then public sentiment should be so
intensified on this point that parents would
be compelled By virtue Of its moral force to
look after the education Of their children, OF
school age. To close our schools for the
summer would be a public calamity, to which
| the undersigned feel confident you would not
give your consent. II would no. only great
" retard pupils in the progress Of their
studies, weaken their inclinations for study,
but it would throw large numbers Of idle
children upon the streets, open to them in
Vulnerable avenues TO illuring temptations
and prove destructive to the future, OF many
hopeful pupils. All these evils ultimately
fasten themselves on the public. In addition
to these and many other disadvantages that
might be named, it would so demoralize our
public schools, which now possess the con-
idence of the public, that years Of labor and
large expenditures Of money would be neccs-
sary to restore them to their present stand
ard Of efficiency and public confidence; be-
sides it would tend to drive away from us
many families which have been attracted
hither and retained among US, on account OF
the educational advantages our county afford
ed-families which place the education OF
their children above high wages, lively times
and bright pecuniary prospects. We can i'll
afford 10 lose this class Of our population.
: In another column will be found the calls
for an election in the several school districts
in the county, to determine whether a special
tax shall be levied for the amounts and the
purposes therein named.
The undersigned, having now discharged
their duty in the premises, commit the mat
ter to you for your calm elaboration and ma
ture Judgment, confident in the belief that
you will not weigh the consideration of a few
thousands Of dollars against the educational
claims Of our youth and the future OF oui
society.
n. A. II. BALL,
C. c. BATTERMAN,
Trustees of Gold Hill District.
JOHN HANF0RD.
T. G. CANNON,
A. BASSETT,
Trustees Flowery District.
LOUIS JANIN, JR.,
A. F. MACKAY,
GEO. W. HAZLETON,
Trustees Virginia District.
J. A. RIGBY,
L. B. HUSTLER,
LUKE C0NNIFF,
Trustees American Flat District.