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Show I REPORT 'OF INDIAN SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT. CVII Two appropriittions were also made out of the nuexpended balance of the school appropriation of the preceding year-one of $2,000 fur the Flatheall Industrial school for Boys and one of $1,000 for the Lin-coln 1nstit.ution. These appropriations were for the purpose of pa,ying each of the schools named for the maintenance and instructiou of a number of pupils that were in each of the schools during the fiscal year of 188P785 in excess of the number allowed by contract with the Gov-ernment. NEW BUILDINGS AND PROPOSED NEW BUILDINGS. The new sohool.buildings at Salem, Oreg., will soon be completed, and when completed will aocomu~odate1 50 pupils. The contract to , erect these buildings was approved August 12, last, and one of the stip-ulations of the contract was that the buildings shor~ld he completed in 150 days from that date. The pupils of the Forest Grove school are being removed to Salem as rapidly as accommodations ca.n be provided for$them. Plans and specifications for the training-school-building to be erected at Grand Juuctiou, Colo., have been prepared, and the contract for the erection of the building has been awarded. The necessity for an Indian industrial-school located at this place has been seriously questioned, and is not apparent to many of the most intelligent of the people who are anxious that additional strength and effective vitality shall be given to the Indian school system. ' Plans for the i~~dustrial.school-buildingto be erected at Santa FB have bee11 decided upon j but bids for its coustruction have uot been advertised for. The title of the Governhent to the land on which it is proposed to erect the building has not heeu perfected. The necessary, qnantity of land has been donated to the Government as required by law, but the Attorney-General has not yet had an opporturlity to ap-prove the deeda for this land. The contract toerect the proposed build-ing caunot be awarded uutil the deeds conveying t,hese lar~ds to the Government hare been approved. ST. IGNATIUS MISSION SCHOOL, HAMPTON INSTITUTE, AND LKNCOLN 1NSTIT.UTION. The appropriatio~~msa de for support of Indian childreu a t the St. Ignatius Mission-school, Montana, at the Hampton Normal and Agri-cultnral institute, Virginia, and at Lincoln tnstitutiou. Philadelphia, . Pa., were wisely made, and appropriations as large as the current ap-propriations sboul(1 be made in support of these schools for the fiscal year ending June 30, 18S7. At the Liucoln Institution the Indian pupils are being- taught useful trades, and are making encouraging progress in acquiringa knowledge of the English language The reputation of the school at Hitmpton, |
