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the invalid can not be out breathing the fresh and healing 

 air, thereby regaining more rapidly his health and strength. 

 At Tuscan Springs one can enjoy good and refreshing sleep 

 365 nights in the year. Both weak and strong must become 

 stronger. And here Tehama County, through Tuscan 

 Springs, supplies the conditions necessary for a long, health- 

 ful and happy life. 



ED U C ATI ON A L 



Tehama County claims a place, educationally, among 

 the foremost counties of the State. 



During the past ten years, the public schools of Tehama 

 County have shown much uniformity in progress. The 

 steady growth, no doubt, is largely due to the fact that we 

 have a greater number of trained teachers throughout the 

 County ; that our County Institutes have, for the most part, 

 been conducted by superior instructors and lecturers ; and 

 that our schools are carefully graded — pupils of the high 

 grammar grade being required to pass an examination given 

 by the County Board before being admitted to high school. 



Though the average length of term of our grammar 

 schools throughout the county is shorter than it promises 

 to be in the near future, yet our manual of study has been 

 arranged and followed with such care that our graduates 

 from the grammar department of the rural districts, as well 

 as those of the town schools, have proven themselves cap- 

 able of entering upon the work of the high schools and the 

 normal schools with equal rank and ability of pupils from 

 some of the more southern counties that are favored with 

 longer terms. 



Our Red Bluff High School, which has been recognized 

 by the State University of California as being fully accred- 

 ited, is under the direction of superior university teachers 

 and a principal of excellent executive ability. 



Within the past few years our High School has been a 

 strong incentive to the graduates of the grammar schools to 

 strive for higher educational attainments. There are four 

 teachers in the High School and an enrollment of about 



