Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1867-04-27
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On the suppoSittou that there are SIR MAJ
lions of dollars Of taxable property in the
hundred dollars will produce the sum Of
$1,000.
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.
viii DO 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 .ff-
teen cents on each one hundred dollars,
whereas the school law allowed 4 tax Of
thirty cents. The annual sum for the pas;
two years from toe 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 tairty-Sre cents in gold coin
equal to about forty-sere,l cents in currency
on each one hundred dollars, aud there are
in California about u half a score OF counties
that levy 4 gold coin tax Of thirty ceats-equal
TO Erty crnts in currency-and yet are I'M
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 were enrolled in the month Of March
on the school registers +S7 pupils. There is,
in addition to the above, 4 pressing necessity
for re-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,Ol0 persons between the ages Of six and
eighteen years, and also l35 between the ages
Of -four and six year., so OF whom, AZ least, OF
the last named class, we are credioly inform
ep, would attena school were facilities pro-
yided 10, their accommodation. The same
fepor, 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-
her Of that neglected class. This unfortunate
condition Of affairs should not exist. The
public canno. well afford TO allow this mass
Of ignorance to grow up IL as midst, to
ripen int vice and crime to vaccinate
the well-meaning, well-trained and we'll
guarded children with the virus OF their
own vicious conversation aud demoralized
habits. 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 its moral force 70
look after the education OF their children, OF
school age. To close our schools Tor the
summe. would be 4 public calamity, to which
the undersigned feel confident you would not
give your consent. Il would no. only great
" resard pupils in the progress OF their
studies, weaken their inclinations for study,
but it would throw large numbers OF idIe
children upon the streets, open to them IN
- tlu-'Du formations
and proye destructive TO the future, OF many
honeful pupils. All these evils ultimately
fasten themselves on the public. In addition
20 these and many other disadvantages that
might be named, il would so demoralize our
public schools, which now possess the con,
hdence Of the public, that years OF iator ana
large expenditures Of money would DO neces-
sary to restore them to 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 US, on account OF
the educational advantages our county aford.
ed-families which place the education Of
their children above high wages, lively times
and bright ~pecuniary prospects. We Gao Ill
afford 10 lose this class Of our population.
In another column will be found tne cans
for an election in the several school oisttictS
in the county, to determine whether 4 spsciaI
tar sAali be levied for the amounts and the
purposes therein named.
The undersigned, having now discharged
their duty in the premises. commit the mat
,sr 70 YOU for your calm elaboration and ma
ture Judgment, confden, in the belief that
you viii not weigh the consideration OF a few
thou,snds of dollars against the educational
elsim, Of our youth and the future OF our
society. ,o,r,soS
n. A. H. BALL,
C. C. BATTERMAN,
Trustees Of Gold Hill District.
JOHN HANFOED,
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 COMMIT,
Trustees American Flat District.