About eight hundred employes in normal times are on the paytion of their children. These pioneer schools first were conducted in a small room of a private house, in a dugout, or any other shelter that was available until school houses could be erected. As the county grew, these primitive school houses gave way to modern frame school houses equipped with the best appliances for teaching, and all school books are provided for the pupils at public expense. There are now two graded high schools in the county,

School, Alliance

roll, which averages one hundred and fifty thousand dollars per month, and is one of the county's principal resources.

Public Institutions

There are no state of public institutions located in this county.

• Schools

The people of Box Butte county have always been deeply interested in having the best schools that their means could afford. The very earliesl settlers considered the school of sufficient importance that among their first public act- was to organize school districts, tax and provide schools for the educathe one at Hemingford occupying two buildings and employing five teachers. The public schools of Alliance occupy three large commodious buildings with a superintendent and a corps of thirty teachers. More than one thousand pupils are enrolled.

The great interest which the people of the county take in their schools, and the importance with which they are considered, is shown by the fact that more than one-half of the money raised by taxation in the county is used for the support of its schools.