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Show ~aeated,lack considerable of being comfortable and inviting. Eleven buildings, stock-sde- built, round logs, and dirt roofs, were repaired by special agent Leuders, and turned over to me for occupancy. They answer the purpose very well in dry weather, hut in tQe rainy season are untenable; in faot, the dwellings for employ&, the shops, and the stables are comparable con>partments. During the year I received authority and have built an agent's dwelling, frame, 28 by 44 feet, lathed and plastered, at B coet of 31,994.54, of which 1 am proud, and if properly oared for will make a pleasant and eomfortnble habitation for years to come. A frame sahool-house has also been built, size 16 by30 feet, st a oost of $800, whioh is lathed and ready for plastering. The &genes scales hare also been moved across the river and fitted op in the coma18 sdjoining t,he stablea. A new invoice of stock-oattle being ordered fbr delipery at this agsuoy, the corrals were torn dawn and rebuilt, as having no ohutu~fo r branding necessitated the throwine of everv head of atook for the brand in^ iron. 'I'hr lll.tza irullrad !~llirll the ag;llrS I b l l i l J i l l - . ~ are -1t111tt.d ~oc&riwl lthollt d ROW of gronod and nl.vn vac3tcA h? the rruupr ~ I I , , ettbl,nnk~nru~u*~ o u n drh u rmtn were left rla~ldruet,h e reruuval of ~ v h i z11 1.2%o rctluicci .tll t l ~ r# !.arb tintr for six monrhr. The plaza i&own to grass seed, but perhaps tho late to be bf use. An extensive shed has also been arranged in whioh to keep wagons and fsrm ma-chinery. I would reoomn~enrl the dirt roofs be removed from the stable and employ6 dwelliugrb, office and oomntissar)-, and good shingled roofs be subatitnted. This ahange nould necessitate an expense of $1,000, but should by all means he done. A we11 30 feet deep, with good iron pump ;and vind-mill, has a180 been added this 80BBOU. EDUCATIONAL. During the year a scl~ool-houseo f ospacity to accommodate thirty day-scholarshas been hnilt-s. fram* structure, at a oost of $800. This tribe has never had much ben,efit of asohool, and I am led to suppose theohief reason is because Sapporonaro and tLe most of the sub-chiefa and head men most strennously oppose aohools. However, I engaged the servioes of Etanley Stokes, of Boulder, Colorado, in April, to open the eohool as an experiment. E%ppovonaro, Ehavauaox, and others were solicited to influence the ohildren to attend, but no ett'orts were made by them whatever. Oooasionally a few, prompted h omosity, elipped into the school-room, and some of them were interested enougi to return again, and showed considerable aptitude in copying blackboard exercises. The warm weather coming on, in June, the families living near the agency moved away to the mountains, and there was not s family with children living nearer than seven miles of the agency. This, of course, broke np the school. The distnuoe at which the faroiliea are scattered from the agency iadisadvantagegeou~ to day-school, even in the winter months. There are no families nearer than three to f i ~wm iles, and therefore impossible for thechildren to attend; and I have no hesi-tanuy iu a;&jlng if a good lodging and boardiug house were erected a very good attend-ance could be assured. The Indisus understand the impreotioability of the situation, and also that a t some other agencies the pupils have the advi~ntageo f hoard and Indgino. There are 453 ohildren of aohool age on the reservation, and the establish-ment o% a boarding-school would be rs civilizer even if the ohildren did not acquire muoh knowledge from school-booka, ah it wonld act aia an organizer and bring the rising gnnerariou under training and control, which in later years would be effective and an established fsature of civilization and progress. CIVTLIZATION. The Ute Indiana adhere strooeh to the oustoms and sueerstitions which heve been h a ~ L ~ ~ r ~fr~ond, ogu~nuv mriuui u'gancratiuu, and cliog iu rhem with a~perrtitioue fiJelitv. I!opn,vomcnra are looked tupou wttb a u p i t i u , ~ . ?'h,,)- are nor , u r p n d nt a..m-,, .~lltanw l l ~r~llv~ \hvl >itr.n$Amn uv i~rcl~laehrn. d n~: i r di t neirherwitll favor nor orher- ~~ ~ " ni*? itnlro~c;tlcul:il.~i~orl dir..~.t r'obrucl will, tl.ei;nv.~r.rr.dc~lcy. Tbia agency beill*. nr bet new, oulp uue ludinr) f a u l y aa 1'1 oc cup~I8 otrses. n o n g Jatnes. crut~l~,vn~l dIH ~OT P Ph.i ts dxr.d 1119 onuuf tho loc buil<l~ocvda cated Lv tho croup8 a'ueai comri,ttnblr bon~nn ntl itcikra e ~ c a l l ~ ~ ~ ~ t " ~ ~ r o ngdrncpsti~ui((r ~th e whiie m,:,,:~ ru~c l cu i living, pncl iw!tifvst< ~.~l.didemhplnr i J~i.l l ~ I I R~l ilnlv. He an11h is wife dm.*. i n citircu'n rlurlrll~n,a n4 she 13 far nearer in h ~ n s ( . I ~ ~wlodrk 111818 \,en. nlany Chite people in oiviliaedcomn~unities. ~n Indians have been eromlsed houses and oontinus,llv remind me of the nnfnlfilled -.J ~~ ~ expertntior.r. 1.iltc s~)e;iill A K P L~rl~ld ~rsJi tl I ~ Y tCb o h ~ t l ~ ~ )tor il,tu,i~ld ten ~ U U ~ C I , *uj hall d..lisvrerl oo tha gruuud n porriuu ui the material when rtrnorral by the Upp3~~n, r ! t1. laare written t1.v Dcymrrmeor wgnrding the rnHrter ao!nei$l<,r,rhn,iuru, b*iux nnxi~taaT U lmvc tlln l,llil~l!ngoe r~cletlb f i ~ r teh e 3~~1embc r anOde rob~rst orma ntnl to srop the cu~tintlt?tilu qu~r iv~bILye 1nd1:trb~re ganling tile "\Vaehir,gton h ~ , , , ~ ~,\.u"d one ui the arrcrest p t u i l u ~ sis ~posetlu l#ot~al l agent is cn rempur rlle |