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A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (1891) (713 pages)
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Page: of 713
238 HISTORY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA.
paid December 18, same year; $1,500 was appropriated to furnish new conrt-house. Not
deeming the specifications followed sufficiently,
the board of supervisors did not accept the buildings until May 6, 1855, since which time they
have been used for the purposes designed, having
‘many times narrowly escaped being destroyed
by fire.
COUNTY HOSPITAL.
The first official provision for the care of the
invalid poor was made in 1854, when the Conrt
of Sessions appointed Drs. T. R. Kibbe and C.
D. Aiken as physicians. In May, 1855, the
board appointed a resident physician in each of
the supervisor districts. Changes were made
each year in the appointment of physicians until 1858, when the district system was dropped
and one physician for the whole county appointed.
In November 1858, the old Felter Honse,
Jersey Flat, was fitted up for a county hospital,
by order of the board of supervisors, and Dr,
E. J. Bryant, who later married the daughter
of Samuel Hungerford, now the world-faimed
Mrs. Mackey, was appointed county physician,
holding the position until 1862, when he was
sneceeded by Dr. T. R. Kibbe, who served two
years. After him came Dr. Alemby Jump, for
six years; Dr. G. C. Chase, three years; when
Jump was re-appointed in the fall of 1873, and
Chase, again in 1875, serving two years; since
when Jump has most satisfactorily filled the
position. A new hospital was built in the
autumn of 1880, and occupied near the close of
the year. Dimensions of main building, 24 x 46
feet in size—two stories; dining-room, 24 x 14;
there is also a commodious kitchen. Expense
of each patient averages eighty cents a day.
In 1881 there were forty-nine patients. There
are a receiving ward, bath-room and a place for
confining disobedient patients. In the second
story are two wards and a steward’s room.
SCHOOL-HOUSE.
The new school-house at Downieville is 60x 65
feet in ground area, and has two departments,
on one floor, with a basement. The latter contains a hot-air furnace fur heating and ventilation. The main floor has two rooms 35 feet
square and 14 feet from floor to ceiling. The
rooms are separated by a wall well adapted to
the deadening of sound. Adjoining each schoolroom are two hat and cloak rooms, 8 x 12 feet,
on each floor, for boys and girls; also a main
hall. The grammar department has a library
room attached.
The school-house is furnished with new furniture and apparatus throughout. There are
two patent closets connected with each department, and there are two independent water enpplies, one to closets and one to school-roomes,
each room being supplied with a sink. A sewer
connects with the river, and is furnished with a
constant streain of running water, carrying off
all the sewer gas to the distance of 150 yards.
The building is of modern architecture.
The bonds for its construction were voted almost unanimously, were ordered issued in 1886,
and the honse completed in November, 1887,
at a cost, with furniture, of $5,600. The plan
was drawn up by William F. Smith, an architect of San Francisco. S. A. Smith, R. Forbes
and F. R. Withe were the trustees of the district at the time, and still constitute the board.
The grammar department is tanght by E. L.
Case, who is also County Superintendent of
Schools; salary, $100 per month. The primary department is conducted by Miss Nina
Cowden; salary, $75. The school is continued
at least nine months in each year, the average
attendance being about 100 in both departmente.
The grounds, two acres in extent, are planted
with walnut, linden, elm, ete.
MINING AT THE PRESENT DAY.
This mountain-town, Downieville, has scarcely any industries except mining; and the little
agriculture that is carried on in the valleys of
the mountains around is to supply the needs of
the people directly engaged in mining and those
parties that are indirectly interested in the above
industry. All the products of the small ranches