Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-04-23

On the s~upposition. that there are SIR mil
lions Of dollars Of taxable property in the
county, ltax OF fifteen cents on each one
hundred dollars will produce the sum Of
In Ii. Virginia School District the per
cent. will be q triHe below thirteen cents, and
in soms Of the smaller districts tho per cent.
will DO somewhat higher.
This tax will not be considered burdcnsome
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 q 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 Glary Of one county officer,
and about q half the sum annually expend-
ed on the County Hospital.
San Francisco, with an assessment roll Of
about one hundred millions Of dollars, has q
school tar Of hirty;fre cents in, gold coin
equal to about forty-seren cents In currency
on each one hundred dollars, and there are
in California about 4 half 4 score Of counties
that levy . gold coin tax Of thirty cents-equal
10 FORTH CENTS in currency-and yet are un-
able to keep their schools open but Il little
more than half the year. There are now ten
schools In tho county and ten teachers.
There were enrolled IN the month Of March
on the school registers 487 pupils. There is,
in addition to the above, . pressing necessity
for r~e-opening the school for colored children,
closed some months since, We understand,
BY the old Board Of Education, on account Of
pecuniary considerations only. The School
Census Marshal Of this county returned
l,0l0 persons between the ages Of six and
eighteen years, and also 1856 between the ages
Of four and six years, 80 Of whom, at 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 TIA 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-
condition Of affairs should not exist. The
public cannot well afford to allow this mass
Of ignorance to grow up in It's midst, to
ripen into vice and crime-to yaccinate
the well.meaning, well-trained and we'll
guarded children with the virus Of their
own vicious conversation and demoralized
habits. Q Our educational facilities should
be enlarged rather than diminished.
Provision should be made for the education
of all, and then public sentiment should be SO
intensified on this point that parents would
be compelled BY virtue Of It's moral force to
look after tho education Of their children, Of
school age. To close our schools for the
summer would DO \ public calamity, To which
the undersigned feel confident you would not
give your consent. ltYould not only great
y retard pupils In the progress Of their
studies, weaken their inclinations for study,
but il would throw large numbers Of idle
children upon the streets, open to them in
Vulnerable avenues to illuripg temptations
and prove destructive To the future, OF many
hopeful pupils. All these evils ultimately
fasten themselves on the public. In addition
TO these andmany otheL disadvantages that
might be named, 1t would 80 demoralize our
public schools, which now possess the con-
shdence Of the public, that years Of labor and
large expenditures Of money would be neces-
sary to restore them 10 their present stand
ard Of efficiency and public confidence; be-
sides Il would tend TO drive away from Us
many families which. have been attracted
.hither and retained among rs, 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 pecuniafy Prospects. We can i'll
afford to lose this class Of our population.
In another column will be found the calls
for an election in the several school districts
in the eounty, 70 determine whether u special
tax shall be levied for me 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 tho belief that
you will not weigh the consideration Of 4 few
thousands Of dollars against the educational
ei.ins Of our youth and the future Of our