History of Nevada; . stration of the schooland its surrounding grounds. It is 40x88 feet on theground, and three stories in height. It was warmed bysteam, supplied with hot and cold water and all modernconveniences before it opened its doors. The cost ofconstruction reached 828,000, leaving a debt of 88,-000. It has accommodations for forty-five boardingand fifty day pupils. Miss Kate Hill is the worthyprinci])al, and she is assisted by an admirable corpsof assistants. Since the school was opened over82,000 have been expended in j)ermaneiit im])rove-ments, nearlj- half ot w bich was applied to
History of Nevada; . stration of the schooland its surrounding grounds. It is 40x88 feet on theground, and three stories in height. It was warmed bysteam, supplied with hot and cold water and all modernconveniences before it opened its doors. The cost ofconstruction reached 828,000, leaving a debt of 88,-000. It has accommodations for forty-five boardingand fifty day pupils. Miss Kate Hill is the worthyprinci])al, and she is assisted by an admirable corpsof assistants. Since the school was opened over82,000 have been expended in j)ermaneiit im])rove-ments, nearlj- half ot w bich was applied to theexpense of securing a ])ormanent and abundant sup-ply of water for tlie use of the school, and for irriga-ting the grounds. Towards the ]>ayment of the debtin 1880 Miss Wolfe gave (10, Mrs. M. A. Gros-venor, 81,000, and Mr. Daniel Cook, of San Fraticisco,81,000, and several others have given smaller sums. Bj the aid of those generous gifts the financialcondition of tho school is bettor than at any previous. TTTE r-TTTTHPTTES OF NEVADA. 199 limo since it was opened. Of the orif^innl builiiint;debt all has been j)aid but 84,000. There is a. float-ing debt of .?2,(5, which has been incurred forimprovements, and by reason of deficiencies in theincome, so that the total indebtuess is now 80, school property consists of seven acres of land,and a building admirablj- ada]itcd to the purposesfor which it was designed. It still has many them a larger library, apparatus, and a sep-arate building for a gj-mnasiuni; but it needs, firstof all, the payment of its debt. For all these, theBishop, with whom the supervision of this school is alabor of love, looks to the friends of f^hristian edu-cation, hoping they will give him the means ior sup-plying them. Owing to the present depression ofthe mining industry in Nevada, he cannot hope thatthe ini^titution will do more than ](rovide for itscurrent expenses; and any one familiar with thecondition of Nevada,
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