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Show xviii FIFTY-SEVENTHA NNUAL REPORT OF entire cost, including furnitnre, had reached $10,000, unless the addi-tional expenditure ~onbml~latecdo uld be included under the head of repairs. It is true that $10,000 is sufficient to erect suitable school-buildings in some localities, hut in most localities that amount is entirely iuade-quate; and this limitation, thus construed, has preventeu this Bureau from furnishing suitable and adequate school-building accommodations upon many reservations where the^ are much needed. For instauee, the Ute Indians, on the Uintah Reservation, Utah, have 250 children of school age, and until recently they have sullenly refused to have their children educated. Every eflort to induce them to send their children to the school at Grand Junction, Oolo., which was estab-lished in part for their benefit, has been unsuccessful, and at this time no6 one Ute child is in attendance thereat. "We will not," they said, "send any of our children away to the Grand Junction or any other school, but we will send all our children to school if a good school is established at our agency." To tkst their sincerity, a competent teacher and some school supplies and furni~hingsw ere sent to the agency, where there is a school-building, but a building that is in every respect unsuited for its purpose. This building can not properly accom-modate even twenty-five pupils; hnt thirty-six have been crowded into it. Observing this desire for educational advantages, which patience and hard work on the part of the agent and school superinteudent had succeeded in awakening in these non-progressive Indians, and being anxious to give it fair opportunity and scope, plans and specifications were prepared for the erection of a boarding-school-building large enough to accommodate seventy-five children. The plans were for a plain building, to be erected with all possible economy consistent *ith stability and comfort. Bids were advertised for, according to law, and the lowest received was $13,000 in excess of the building limitation of $10,000. This instance is cited to show how difficult it is, while acting nude; the restrictions of such a rigid policy of economy, to do prompt and effective work in the pending attempt to educate the rising gen-eration of Indians. As stated above, the $10,000-building-limitation provisiou has been construed to mean that not more than' that amount can be expended for school-bnildingsat any school, and it has heeo held that no addition can be made to any building upon which $LO,OUO has already been ex-pended. It may he said that, if the policy of erectinglarge suhool-build-dings were abandoned, $10,000 would in most caxex be snfficient for the erection of any one building; but iu the event of such a change in the character of school-buildings more than one building would be needed for every boarding.schoo1. There are good reasons for the belief that such a change should be made, some of which may be stated. Any one who thoughtfully coudders the subject of Indian education must conclude that iodustrial training should be the principal feature |