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of course, a floor of the same.  The materials would, as far as I know now, all have to be bought, and hauled, a part - the boards - some distance to the spot spot.  The logs could probably be obtained for about 50$,& the plank would cost at least $1.00 a hundred. Then there would be required sashes for windows, hinges for doors, nails, etc., etc., and, lastly, the labor to put up the building would have to be paid for. All this would make such a building cost at least $250oo.  The colored people here could probably manage to furnish the room with seats, desks blackboard, and also furnish the requested fuel & lights for day & evening school, & take care of the School room; but other than that I feel confident they could not do; & they should not be relied on even for all that, too implicitly; for it must be born in mind that they really have no ready means, & the realization of money with them is very uncertain; besides, they have now, by hook or crook, to pay their taxes, & provide for the Winter, while most of them receive the scanty pay for their labor, if at all, only at the end of the year.  In this connection I was told by a white man here a short time ago, that he thought I had better be encouraging them to get something to put on their backs, & to eat, than to say anything about schools, for he could not for the life of him see how the half of them are going to keep from freezing or starving to death this winter.  It is surely, a sad truth, that they are not given any more for their labor then will barely suffice to keep them from want; & some not even that; and still it is said, when they steal, that severe examples should be made of them, to deter their class from devastating,