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Show ,558 REPORTS OF SUPERINTENDENTS OF SCHOOLS. land of the finest quality, and most favordbl~s ituated 3 miles north of town, a t $9 000. the Gu?.ernmept to pay $6,000 and the citizens ot~hc enix$, 3,000. Thb Com-mlssidner h a n n g dec~rlettl o purchase this tract of lanfi, ID obedience to his instruo-tions I forwnr~ledt o him on the 11th of April an nhmrnot of the title to, and a warranty deed for, the same, and tvo "water-right certificates." In compliance with the Commissioner's reqnest I submitted a sclreme for the disbursement of the $54000 appropriated by Conmress for the esiahlishmont of the Phcenis Indian Inclustrinl Training School, spe8ij.inn the several snms reqnired for buildings and other improvements to be Inane on the land and for tbe support of a school of 125 pupils and the necessary employ4s during the fiscal gear of 1892. I n pursuxnce of instrt~ctiona received from the Commiss~onerI employed Mr. J. M. Creighton, :~rebiteoi to prepare plans and specifiontions for a sohool building to be erected on the sohoof site. Preliminary sketches of the bnildinm designed to be erected mere farwardedto the Commissioner on the 12th of May. fiese havingmet with his npproval, complete drawiags and specifioations were submitted on the 22d of June. The unprecedented floods that prevailed in the Gila and Salt Rivera during the ltast week in February and the firat two weeks of March swept &way the railroad bridges over these stresms end othervise seriously damaged the Phmnix and Dlari-copa Railroad. The goods and supplies shipped by the Indian Office to this school began to arrive at Maricopa about the time this destruction of railroad property ooouned. Hwing ascertained that the railroad ooulrl not be repaired short of two months, I made repeated but unsuccessful efforts to have the goods forwarded to the sohool bp means of freight teams. The goods remained st Marioopa until the road was in running order to Phmnix. They were received at this sohool on the 6th of June. As the hot season had then set in, andthe fiscal year wss near its close, I was instructed by the Commissioner to defer the opening of the school until the 1st of September. The land purchased for the school site is well adapted to the cultivation of figs, apricots, raisin grapes, oranges, and a11 other va.rieties that are Krown in thisvalley. It is the purpose to devote 80 or 90 acres of the farm to such f ru~tew, ith the view of training tho pupils in the arts of onltivating, onring, and handling the same. Pupils so trained will readily find remunerative employment in the orchards and vineyards of the Salt River and Gila River valleys. Hence, the outing system can be success-fully applied here. Althou h little has been accomplished during the fiscal year just olosing, it is ConfidentFy believed that the ~ohooln ow rests on s, ~ o u n db asis and that i t s pros-pects are very enco~~reging. Very respectfully, WELLINGTORNI CE. |