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Show room w t k began. Under the able mmanwement of the principal remarkable progrew waa made by the pnpils, oot\sithrr:~ndiny their age aucl ihe 4h;rt period that hia\.erg valod,le sersire3 were given tu the nrhool. .I vacmcy orcurrlnl: iu the posirion of IaundrezP. I urrnoiorcd lo thltt olwe. Uctuber 11. Kate I:ichard*on. an Indian wumdn. ~ ~ ~ ~~~ but it pupil, wb6 still retains thi msition and whb has eiven entire'&c~~notiao. Hav'ng completed the arganizaiion of the school on Octoher 26, I telegraphed, asking for funds to enable me to go myself or send an officer to the reservation with the object of procuring pupils. Not receiving any reply I again telegraphed on November 7, and ps this telesrram was also unnoticed, and as winter wns fast aoaroaehinn. I directed Dr. ~obertson,%lerkan d physician here, to proceed to the reservit;on of ~ e y&daan d Idaho, reportingat rhesnlnr iilnamy arrinn wi n o r ofiirc. Dr. Kohe r r~ot~r~v~~inw S~eavrnSd a nlluut dl wwks and sccored only lLur hoys. llid tvant ofsucvrn~i, ~owe~ewr .a i due ro f~lscltolwluto ld tlw rndinn- at tlmt ulaca whm the first llatrh or' unt,iI? were had there: for in order to procure those it was represented to them that the& &ere different trades taught here, arid their di?~p~ointnlelalntd a n ~ e rrw t IP imaeined when upon tlwir ar-rival they filuud u, bxre srhool 1tui:diog inatend of the hut^ &hop3 iu whirl, they lwped land for which thev rnmc to lenrn trade*. ' On January I, b: auth&ity of the honorable Secretary or the Interior, at my request ' - andupon the recommendation of thehonorable Commissioner of Indian A,ff&imt,h e pupils here were to commence receiving s. per diem allowance for work performed on the fare and carpenter shop, not to exceed990 per month, the amount allowed for the service8 of irregular lnbor.which heretofore was paid to white men. This arraoeement proved highly a:at&f.~rruryn od wst~lrr~din ninny in vow^ nmre \wrk )n.riormrd than cotll<l be nr rbr i - pliil~tdI ty :my two s l ~ i t rIn horers. Iieaider pl~winch, arrowing, the mdkiny uforer R miles of irrirtttioc ditch*.*, and other f ~ r niltn d svill~le~ vork.wulk~ilnddri\wv rg, ~r.tded and graveled, and over 1.200 loads of material ~ uupt on the grounds imrnediat& sor-rounding the school building. - The almost failure of Dr. Robertson's mission to Nevada, in hissearch for pupils made it necessary that an effort shoold be made in some direction, and acting upon the sag-aestions of letter from your office, under date of November 29, 1887, an January 11, iwomp~uiz<hlv a Whit; Rivcr r t e pupil. lien 1.'. fised, and n k p i l , .IosC Marin, from thr Sntltll~rn Ute, I left here for the rescrv:atioo ui Ouray and L'inruh, mp route being over the luot~ntninso n our uurth to I(nl,-u el"v.. Coln.. thence dwm the \\'hire lliver to Onray. The psst winter in this loeality was a very severe one. and the fall of mow was nn-osnally great; hot so far as infarmntioo could guide me I was confident when we started from here with a tesmaod wagon that though there might he some difficulty, yet we could manage to drive through safely. However, when we arrived at the attle rsnoh st the foot of the mountain, the snow was so deepfrom 2 to 3 feet-that we abandoned our wagon, and, packing our horses, proceeded upon our journey, whieh proved to be one beset with great daogen and htardships. Being unable to crass the ' summit in one day, though we left the faot at the dswn of day and though the distance is less tbm 3 miles, we were compelled to camp in a small cluster of willows, and in snow s t least 5 feet deep, abont 400 yards from the summit. The weather waa dread-fully cold (at Fort Dhchesne, many thousand feet lower, that night, the mercury drop-ped to 37.5' below zero), and how we escaped with the painful though not serious frost-bites is & marvel. As Boon aa we had light to see we agsiu started, and it may convey some idea of our difficult ascent when it is stated that it took us until 12 o'clock m. to cover the 400 yards that separated us from the mountain top. But difficult as was the ; merit the descent on the other side was even worse. Ourhorses were tired,almost worn out by the "wsllowing" by which they advanced, and by hunger. We werein no better trim, md our salvation depended on reaching some cabin or shelter on the other side. We knew that such a. cahin was about 3 miles fmm the summit and if we reached it our safety from cold was aqsured, no, releasing our horses from the packs (blankets, clothing. eta.), which the.7 carried, and dropping them upon the mountain summit we urged them in every way through the wall of snow whieh perpetually con-fronted them. But all onr efforts would have been in vain had we not fortunstelv struok a trdl, reaching within 500 yards or so of the summit, made by a party with i string of a. score of horses a week before in their attempts to cross from north to south, and in whieh they failed after losing two or three homes by death. We arrived at the cabin an hour or so before dark, and from there to Raogely had no fnrther difficulty. From Ranxely we went dawn White River expectinx to find Indians encamped along ita frozen waters and in its sheltered valleys, and with whomam intended to stay as long as there remained a hope ror the success of our mission. Butthe weatherstill can-tinuing extremely cold, it appean that all the Indians had withdrawn to the neighbor-hwd of the Ouray Agency, and consequently not one was visihle.until we reached that place. |