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Show IMPROVEMENTS. Since my last report the entire Indian farm, embracing nearly 400 acre*, has been in-closed, much of it, as has been stated, by the labor of the Indians themselves. Our mill-house ia completed, inclosing gnst, saw, and shingle mills all in complete order, hssin been tested in the rne.nufwtnra of lumber, shingles, end flour, and have greatly piessed an$ encouraged oar Indians. We havs manufactured forty or fifty thousand feet of luo~berand about as many thousend shingles, pot up an addition to our fmm-kitchen and dining-room, rendering it suitsble for tm-o families, built another for meat and ice house, besides repairing much of the old fence and building cousiderable post and bosrd fence ou the ngeney farm. Should the honorable Commissioner andathera, while looking aver the results of anr lsbobors and expenditures for the last year, think little had been aoomplished, we will not dispnte that point, but we beg that they wiil bear in mind the disadvantages under which we labor, anr isolated and, for the srester pwt of the year, io~ecessiblep osition, and that we procure from the forest and manuf&etnre all our own lumber, erert our buildings, and make improve-ments aod do fsrm-work with our ordinary employ8s, which is not usultlly the case. SCHOOLS. Msnv of our Indians have saweased 8. desire far the estsblishrnent of a. school. bnt no to rl.is r i~ivn e halve IOI heen n b ! ~i o PI I I it I U U I I I I H I ~ , ~I.I I~ILIn 8" $he tvnm of ihh ne(:e%;ary fixda rv ,.revr and !"rn>sh rho rrhnol-bou*on udphy n ivn~loers. lad our innbilty to pnjeure a s>tiluble Derrtru 1t1 tisku rlstnt. l'ltrweh th,, libc,>aliw nl 11s. J)*~tnrrs.~.nl the nwermrp funds haie been secured and d teacher e@aged, so that-we hope tahave our house, which is under way, completed and anr soh001 in operation this fail. I cannot but feel solicitons for the oontplete success of this undertaking. I hsve reflected much upon the snbjeot; still am not clem ss to the kind of school bast soired to the condition of our Indians and our resources. My judgment is in favor of a boarding msnuel-labor school, but I fear our resources will not bear the expense. NQ missionary enterprise has been attempted, but we puvpose, in all our school instruo-tian ~ n edre rcises. to inculeats moril and relieious truth so tlvr as orictioabie. Ir is unl11:arxsr to con~p~ll,rclnl loll? ~.o~oapl~ina!~sn itt*ra n4 pelrun* with ~rtl.,rn you are eun>p?.ld,i n tla. JinLa~pt<. ,f yletnt ilurics, lu v.lmc iu culltact; I ~ I I It h wl~~nc ecdon oh-orllive rulsl,n*, sulr lltr ctt~nulh8i\.c le811.e prr.re~,(rdtc , la) . ~oind,j, ert;.c~Iy~ ntislie.sm e tlrat ritere ir n ~ P ~ ~ M I~ ~hI rI 0It11 the P H ~ Io i * o ~ u ro i 11.e hlor;non .e9.1*15 10 thwart !be bo- ~.tvuicnr destgaor 8 i the Govvm~ncnr tuwnrd lilr 1n.d:~ns. by Jiacuutaging them from going iu, and ImulJit e out i~daa.vla~~o:,t,. ;~ I G ILIII ~.lro.hi!. OIL 11.0 r~.servati.)~t.'I 'be only. at least the most efficient, remedy for this evil is the sbsolut'e prohibition of the expenditure of &single dollar in the way of resents or subsistence off the reservation, and liberal support and enooursxement to those wgo go to and remain on it, and engnee in aericulture. In conolGion I beg to preseit some of the wants of my Icdidians anb the agency under mv ohare-. in order thst thev aod it mnv become self-su,o .o ortio"e.. or as nearlv so RS the na- 2 ~ ~- ~,;re <.ft i:e'v.rre \rill a i.llil, i t t llc e~rlie?.tp o ~ ~ i tbi .~ ~~ ? 1.1 1 111). .tpitt;.)ll, ib.tt legi51~110ann ll rlbt illnt>.tJetnc.nr n l ~ u1, 1 , not tend t nrrnr.1 this rerul~a ,- ~a.lirallyd rfi::rive. I 1 . a ~e~ll.- de>svureI , .,. a14 \. imer<,o.~wwe trh b t ~ lc u~~troolw l utv lt.di>n~sx,u d in all (1.e I"l>or xwl expenditures on tGs agency, to keep thst end eonstantli in view.' me think some consid-erable progress has been madn, hot must confess that it is far below what we had fondly hoped. Varioua eauees havs contributed to prevent more satisfaetaly results. Our isolated position, bring almost inaccessible for teams for about seven months of the year, and the almost impracticable road for the other five months, rendem the management of our agency both diffiault and en~ensive. A eood road is absalutalv demanded by &- r-ia."-, -." -> a-.7-d- e-" -- -"-n-o mv -.J . Our greatest items of expense are flour and beef. With judicious encouragement we can in a very few years riise sli the flour and other farm-produets necessary for subsistence. On the Iodisu farm, sod mainly by Indian labor, we should not only raise all the beef weneed, hut could and should be able to draw n revenue from the stock rsised on the reservation suffi-civur ru purchase all 1182 utl...r needed eotppla6. Cuuld we bavs !he nmouwr di iundx it has curt us f i r 111.~to1r 111. I H I ~ h\u ) . r ina, rir, *bout 31i.b!fu, tc ir,vwt ar oscr, I feel cunGtlcot that uilL in.iieious nlnuaremvnr u * u,u,sl nut vulv $uhtolv ourr?.sr$ ulrh be,.! i ~ r a l llim e to cotur, bur 136 nbll, to w~cc8o~rngdre.6 erri1.g in.lia~;i by'Gr&totiuo n W\F and caii or a ).okc of oxen, hr6idt.q sea811i1~thge T P < I I O ~HJ ~ W Ci ~li~csced. 1 Lave i.nd $ 1 3l boru,r!u ~rr.?entto 1.osornbie Cunjn~in.innero f Jnciino AZairn the view$nbove indicated, andameoooura&ad byknowingthst you,in themain, agreewith me; but Iamaware you are powerless unless the means are placed at your disposal by provision of law. I there-fore, through you, appeal to the honornble the Congress of the United States to place at your dispasnl, far the benefit of thia aaency, the meaus not only for it8 mere existence, but far its highest development and the beat interests of the Indians thereon, pbysicsliy, finsn- I eisliy, intelleotudly, and momlly. i I Lava the honor to he, very respectfully, your obedient servant, I J. .I. CRITCHLOW. |