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Show R School buildings and grounds, as well as to attend to their if PA... studies. Tha older boys do much of tho work on the Of3 ;y ,... ;- ; ; Py School farm under the supervision of tho Farmer.and the '!o < Principal. 'Off _ . ww |?'r .',>; Suppliss for the Agency and School are being purchased . .... 'A i'is , i ' •'( > -' ,,:'.',' oli.es. -; . \ by Superintendent Kneale at very reasonable prices,, when the 0• . -t. • 'i Oi • -'•' '0 o; 0- . •••./ f i 'i - . ', . . - r isolation of the jurisdiction is ccnaiderod. Tthils I waa at O work at tho Agency office on tVednosday, November 1, Chief Clerk ff 3ishop, of th© Agency force, informed r.a that ho had ju3t puis. '1- : ' chased ISO bushels of wheat for tha Ydiiio Rccka School at 80^ Ay a. bushel and a lot of potatoes at $1.00 a hundred pounds -» 60ji a bushel, i, The low prico of both wheat and potatoes may i ' ''•'• ba acccuntsd for by tha difficulty in shipping any products of this kind cut of tha Uintah Sasin. Flcur, produced on tho outside, costs, in the Basin, 110.50 a barrel. Purchases of flour for the Agency and School for the current fiscal year have teen made at $2.78 a hundred pounds •': for 20,000 pounds, and f-2*7S a hundred pounds for 55,000 pounds. • ffy This price is,only a trifle more than half the mai'ket price '• rO>0 '. A -"- . ' , Oy ,,; j } \fk of flour outside tho Basing 3 -fl Superintendent Xnoale has purch&ssd all the oats that ho will need for', the current fiscal year, at a prico, laid down at the Agency, of §1*75 a hundred pounds„ At th© time I was at Fort Duchesne, the price cf oats had advanced to £2,00 a hundred pounds asid it wis almost impossible to obtain it at that figure. |