Summer School Diary, part 1D - 1912

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Mrs. B-- needed to be a true representative of the road was a tin can and a little fire by a railroad track. One of our very graceful girls looked like a Chinaman; another might have been taken for Old Grimes. While despite the fact that one girl took great pains in select-ing a becoming shirt, and her neighbor was discovered slyly putting on the smallest pair of shoes, they both looked like a pair of second hand store dudes. Miss S-- was especially resplendent in a pair of number 14's - both for the left foot.

[image black and white photograph group of 8 women wearing overalls and hats and one man]

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After admiring the various appearances of the respective members of the party, we put on heavy coats crowded six in a cage and were dropped to the 2000 foot level of the C and C mine.

[image black and white photograph of mines? building with hills in the far distance]

Here we saw the pump room where gigantic pumps work day and night and we saw too the dynamos which generate all the electricity used in the mine. Our guide furnished us with candles and we followed him through a tunnel so hot that we left a trail of perspiration behind us. Some members

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of the party were heard making certain resolutions and it is on record that one member went to church twice on the succeeding Sunday. We were surprised to see a white rat and our guide told us that a mine is considered unsafe if there are no rats in it, as they leave when the timbers begin to decay.

After visiting several drifts we made our way back to the pump station and were raised to daylight, where we had our pictures taken.

The machinery on the surface was interesting. Alongside of the most modern hoisting equipment, was an old discarded windlass cable-hoist which had been shipped around Cape Horn.

As we climbed the hill to the old town, we paused to take a last look at one of the most wonderful silver lodes the world has ever known. Mackay, Fair, Flood and O'Brien, the Bonanza Kings of old, appeared in vision. Virginia seems but a poor relic of its former self, and yet those miners work on and on, hoping some day to see the boom again. May Fortune be kind and make their dreams come true.

July 22. A very profitable and pleasurable excur-sion was taken by the Theory and Practice

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class on July 20 when it visited the Mt. Rose School. Miss Day and Miss Rouch were the guides. The school is of the one story mission type with the court surrounded on three sides by rooms. The lighting and ventilating systems are ideal. The windows are so arranged that the light comes over the left sh-oulder of the children. The mechanical fan system for ventilating and heating supplies each child with thirty cubic feet of fresh air each minute. The teachers rest-room was an interesting feature as was the spacious assembly hall with its stage equipment.

July 23. State Superintendent J. E. Bray spoke of the new "Course of Study" which had just been completed. He told of the changes that had been made in the read-ing course for primary grades, and said that the new "Course of Study" provided for more freedom on the part of the teacher to select supplementary reading.

On Tuesday evening, July 23rd, Miss Edith Howe gave a recital in the Me-thodist Church which proved a great treat to the many who attended.

Miss Howe gave selections ranging from the dramatic to the playful

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and each in turn was appreciated by the interested audience. "An Honest Soul" seemed to be the general favorite and received prolonged applause, as her splendid imitation of the little old lady was so real. She graciously responded to many encores.

Miss Mary O'Neill made her first appearance in "Jean Val Jean," and pleased the audience with "Her Letters" as an encore.

Mrs. Ed Lunsford rendered several vocal selections "Just a Wearyin For You" being the favored one.

All who attended pronounced it a treat long to be remembered.

July 24. Deputy Superintendent Mitchell, editor of the "Nevada School Journal" spoke in assembly of the value of the paper to the teachers, and show-ed that the success of the paper for the coming year depends largely upon the teacher's subscriptions, as [advertisements?] may not be as easily obtained as they were last year.

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