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and all the public school teachers work under his supervision, and indeed 

 are appointed on his nomination. 



The Dillon school board has just completed the erection and equip- 

 ment, for this school, of a building which is. perhaps, the most thoroughly 

 up to date modern school building- in the state. 



As the majority of the teachers in "Montana are rural teachers, special 

 care is needed for their training and a model ungraded school is carried on 

 for their benefit. 



For the work of instruction the State Normal College has also fine 

 buildings of its own, on the most beautiful campus in the State, and libraries 

 and other equipment of the most valuable character. 



For teaching the science of minerolog}- and the practical art of working 

 mines, the opportunity in Montana is unique, and of all places in the State 

 Butte is the ideal location for such work. Here the Montana State School 



of Klines has been carried on for the past fourteen years, and 

 The School is affording young men who are interested in this field the 

 of Mines opportunity of their lives to make practical preparation for 

 at Butte. becoming mining engineers and experts in all lines of quartz 



mining operations. 



The institutions alread}' mentioned are for the benefit of all the people 

 of ^^lontana in general, but in providing these generous facilities, the State 

 has not overlooked those unfortunate classes wlio are unable to avail them- 

 selves of advantages of this character. 



At Boulder, midway between Helena and Butte, is the State School for 

 the Deaf and Blind. Here are gathered all the deaf and blind children of 

 the State, unless they are too feeble in health to engage in 

 Helping the school work. 



Deaf and These children receive not only a good general education. 



the Blind, but every effort is made to render them capable of self-support. 

 Carpentry, printing and other handicrafts are taught to the deaf 

 boys, and sewing and housekeeping to the girls. Above all a large and well 

 equipped ranch, stocked with horses, cattle, hogs and poultry, and provided 

 with a modern sanitary daii}' barn, gives ample opportunity for training in 

 useful work. But besides this the deaf are taught in a large measure to 

 overcome some of their limitations. While they cannot hear, they are 

 taught to read ordinary conversation by watching the speaker's lips, and a 

 \ery large proportion of the deaf are taught to speak so well that a stranger 

 would not be likely to suspect their infirmity. 



For the blind, the range of opportunity is more limited, but they learn 

 to read books specially prepared for them, and to do typewriting. Their 

 delicacy of touch is so great also, that they learn to do many things quite 

 as well' as those who see. Music and the tuning of musical instruments are 

 naturally among the occupations at which they learn to excel. 



Provision is also made at Boulder in a separate institution, but under the 

 same superintendency. where those who are not suited mentally to the work 



-It you would he satisfied anyichere, you would be satisfiedin Montana. 



