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Show FORT IEW19 BCHOOL. The primary department was especialll sucoe~sful, objective methods of teaching being used and the pup s a c q w g a knowledge of En lish in an exceptionally short time. Owin to scltrcity.of water qittle farming can be attempted, but a consi 3 erable amount of alfalfa is grown. The school has a good garden, and since my visit it has been enlar ed and the su erintendent has adopted the plan of having indivi j ual plats for t % e pupils. In the industrial work the bo s are given practical instruction in the more important trades and t%e girls are taught sewing, laundering, and housework. It is hoped that the needed facilities will be given this school, so that the pu ds may be taught cooking in a way to ve them proper train-ing an $ the ability to prepare meals for a smaffamily. It is recom-mended that a cooking department especial1 for this purpose be electricity, is needed. established. A new system of lighting the scK 001, either by gas or LI0UTIlEF.N UTE 8CH001. The enrollment was 70-40 boys and 30 girls-all full bloods, with three exceptions. The buildings are new and the sanitary conditions are satisfactory. Two class-room teachers are employed and the work is rimar the pupils having been in school less than two years. ~r a c t i c a%li~t& industrial instruction is given, rw they do not have shops and the scarcity of water makes farming to any extent imprac-ticable. If an adequate supply of water for irrigation could be pro-vided. the school would be enabled to conduct farmine o~erationso n a sufficient seulc to ivr the boys tlimougli instr11ctio~in'~~i~~11ltllru. A norlishor, for tke &struetion of the lnrecr bovs in tlir inec:lguni-cal trades and a new building to room, mess kitchen, and d h g room the school. maao PORT S&lL SCHOOL The old Fort Hall location has been abandoned and the school moved to the new plant at Rossfork. The buildings there were in course of completion during my visit and seem well adapted to the urposes intended. They conslst of four stone buildings-a double &rmiton, schoolhouse, mess hall, and laundy +l1 are built in modern style, heated by steam and lghted b,g ectn!ity. The new location is a very desirable one, an is mt a d e of both the agency buildings and the railroad station. It is believed that thenew buildings will accommodate about the same number of upils as were in attendance last year, but an additional building or %uddings will be needed, as the school population of the reservation is nearly a hundred more than the capacity of the school. The new school farm proper contains 32 acres of fertile, well-watered valle land, and has attached to it about 300 acres of good meadow land on & ossfork Creek, 24 miles distant. The agricultural instruction here has been prac-tical, and at the time of my visit there were good pros ects of a fine crop of hay, some grain, and an abundance of vegetab 7 es on the old |