The Goldfield news. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1904-1911, 1905-10-13

Local Trustees Have No Money With
Which to Continue Session


Unless some means of raising funds
FOR paying the current expenses of
maintaining the Goldfeld public
schools are devised within the next
few days the trustees will be com.
PEELED to discontinue the sessions. The
condition is one over which the board
has no control, for, they assert. and
lay the blame on the position taken by
one of the county officials. At the re-
cent session of the state legislature
bonds In the amount of $4,000 were
authorized for the purpose of building
a school house and for assisting in
paying the running expenses of the
schools of the Goldfeld district. The
debentures were later issued and are
now In the possession of the treasurer
of Esmeralda county. He refuses 20
turn them over to the members of the
local school board, despite their oft
repeated request, and as a result no
means of securing funds for the opera
ton of the department are in sight.
Even in the face of this discourage
ment the members have made over
lures for the placing of the bonds, and,
meeting with encouragement at home
and at Reno, entered into negotiations
with the Chicago National bank to
accept them at 95 cents on the dollar,
provided that the money was imme-
diately forthcoming. With the pos
sibility of funds being secured from
that source, the members state, that
the county treasurer is lying back in
the collar and refuses to part with the
CaarrIfrna ~ laao +L-- NH
places the trustees in the u%nenviable
position of being forced to close the
school unless pressure can be brought
to bear upon the treasurer to abandon
his present stand.
The condition is one which appeals
strongly to every resident of the camp
who has the interest of the children at
heart, and is embarrassing to all; and
is yet one which cannot be bettered
unless the strength of popular con-
demnation may exert a beneficial eff
feet in the premises. There are over
200 children in this city who have at
tanned al age when tuition is a neces-
'sity, and that it should be denied them
is a shame; a shame which causes the
blush to mantle the cheek of every
fair-minded man and woman in Gold
field. A little more than $4Cs re-
mains in the school fund with which to
pay the salaries of four teachers and
a j%anitor; think of it, $500 is all the
money that is available for educa-
tional purposes in one of the richest
mining camps in the world; and this
through no fault of the residents
thereof. The position is a false one,
to be sure, and yet it is one from
which there seems no relief.
To add further to the evaporation
and chagrin there are no funds avail
able with which to pay the contractor
who is, or rather was, erecting the sub
stantial stone school house. AS a re-
suit the work of construction has
ceased; and with winter close at hand
the trustees find themselves forced,
even though funds for the %continu-
ance of school be Forthcoming from
unforeseen source, to house the pupils
in a fiimsy tent, with all the attend
ant features of discomfort from cold
and the possibility of serious illness
to both the children and their teach
ers. Taken all in all the condition is
one that gals.