We seemed to have plenty of time for visiting, exploring and re-creation, yet when we sum up the quantity of work that was accomplished in the time that we had to do it we must have worked like Trojans of old. We

must have been full of the "Fires of Youth," a vitality of which the young are possessed but wholly unconscious of its existence. The hardest labor of all were the trips to Sidney for lumber which took three days to the trip.

The above experiences are similar to those of hundreds of others in Banner county. Those who came with some money and built better than others were soon reduced to the same rank as'the rest of us. The hard times of the early nineties was the great leveller -- all the west went broke.

Banner County Schools

There are few of us who have not at one time or another served on the school board of the home district -- my experience was in the Cashier district or No. 33 -- and few who have not at one time or another taught a district school • -- my experience in this was in the soddy school house in the "V" district. The early salaries paid teachers were not high, ranging from $22 a month to $30 per month but the schools I venture were as well taught as they are today when vou consider the equipment with wrhich

Early Schoolhouse

we had to operate. We taught the foundation studies and when one wanted "domestic science" she helped her mother at the kitchen stove ; in "scientific agriculture" we went into the fields. "Dry farming" was learned by experience and none of the old timers had time or money to take a course in the "Campbell system."