Sierra County History
Illustrated History of PLUMAS, LASSEN & SIERRA Counties
with CALIFORNIA from 1513 to 1850, Farriss & Smith, 1882, San Francisco

Transcribed by Peggy Hooper, Oct 2009

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SCHOOLS OF SIERRA COUNTY. 

Sierra county is divided into twenty-six school districts, in all of which 
excellent schools are taught. The districts were named and numbered February 23, 
1871, since which time but one new district has been created. The board of 
examiners of the connty are J. S. Wixson, county superintendent; S. A. Smith, of 
Downieville; J. H. Thorpe, Howland flat; J. E. Berry, Forest City; E. L. Case, 
Sierra valley. Twenty-eight teachers are employed in the county, of whom 
fourteen are males and fourteen females. There are twenty-five school-houses 
built of wood in the county. Ten grammar schools are taught, and eighteen 
primary schools, the average salary paid to male teachers being $84.53 per 
month, and $68.75 to females. The number of school children in the county 
between the ages of five and seventeen is 1,172; number attending school, 961; 
total value of school property, $19,515. The receipts in the school fund from 
taxes collected in the county during the year 1881 were $8,379.40; receipts from 
state fund, $10,187.73; total for 1881, $23,787.01, which includes moneys 
received from other sources. The tax levied for the support of public schools in 
Sierra county for 1881 was fifty cents on each one hundred dollars of taxable 
property. The total expenditures for the year ending June 30, 1881, were 
$18,000. Following is a complete list of the school districts of the county, 
together with the number of school-children in each, those attending school, and 
the value of school property. To avoid an annoying repetition of words, the 
successive figures merely are given. The first numerals state the number of 
school children between the ages of five and seventeen years in the district; 
the second show the number in regular attendance; and the third the value of 
school property. 

ALPINE district, 24; 24; $550. ALTA, 22; 12; $215. ANTELOPE, 28; 21; $175. 
BUTTE, 92; 62; $1,100. CLARE, created in June, 1881, 15; 11. DOWNIEVILLE, 177; 
151; $1,900. EUREKA, 20; 18; $230. FOREST, 146; 138 ; $2,080. GIBSONVILLE, 43 ; 
38 ; $400. GOODYEAR'S, 52; 31; $800. LONG POINT, 13; 12; $250. LONG VALLEY, 27; 
24; $300. LOYALTON, 62; 45; $1,650. MINNESOTA, 33; 20; $1,000. MOUNT PLEASANT, 
21; 21; $600. NEWARK, 17; 12; $450. PLUM VALLEY, 39; 30; $650. POVERTY HILL, 23 
; 21; $325. POKER FLAT, 17; 10; $210. KOOKY POIXT, 22 ; 19; $550. SIERRAVILLE, 
97; 78; $2,900. ST. Louis, 40; 36; $280. TABLE BOCK, 58; 51; $1,200. UNION, 30; 
26; $275. WASHINGTON, 20; 17; $350. TOTAL, 1,172; 961; $19,515. In Downieville 
seven negro children regularly attend school, and one China child attends the 
Mount Pleasant school. Nearly all the districts have ample accommodations for 
the pupils. 


LONG VALLEY. 

Lying in that narrow strip in the southern portion of Lassen county, situated 
between the Plumas county line and the line dividing the states of California 
and Nevada, is Long valley. It follows the course of Antelope creek, a tributary 
of Honey lake, as it flows towards the north. It is nearly, forty miles long, 
and varies in width, though not exceeding a few miles at its widest point- This 
valley has been a stock range for many years, and is one of the best to be found 
in the great Nevada basin. Several thousand cattle are raised annually by the 
wealthy ranchers who own the valley. These gentlemen have finely improved 
places, and among the finer ones are the Evans. McKissick, and the two Ross 
ranches, which have residences and improvements upon them as good as can be 
found anywhere. A post-office named Long Valley is located there. The stage road 
from Eeno to Susanville passes through it from end to end, and the Reno and 
Oregon railroad will probably soon be built through the valley, giving it 
splendid transportation facilities.