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Show 108 REPORT OF TXIE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. be practicable and desirable can be determined only by experienoe; but from present knowledge it is thought to beentirely safe to assume that proportion as the basis of calculation. In estimating the cost of the needed boarding accommodations the coat of the buildings provided for Haskell Institute at Lawrence, Hans., has been taken as a standard. Owing to the very great difficulties by which the work of extending school facilities is hedged about, it is at present regarded as inexpedient to attempt to make provision during t.he nvxt fiscal year for the accom-modation of more than one-fourth of the Indian jonth now unprovided for in Government school buildings. If it shall be found practicable to advance the work more rapidly than that, a larger effort may be put forth the sccond year. TABLE 3.-Estimated oost of school accon~nwdatkns Pnpils for whom boarding aooommodstions are needed ............ 17,000 Pupils for whom boarding aocommodationc+ are pruvided b~ the Guverunieut ................................................... -7,6ilO Pupils for whom boardiug. aooornmodations' should be provided .... 9,410 P~zpiisf or whom boarding aooornmod~titiooss h&~ldb e provided in one year (one-fourth the pupils onprovided for) ................ 2,552 ---- Pupils for whom day scoommodstions are needed ................. 7,300 Pupil8 for whom day acoommodstinns are provided by the Guvern-ment .......................................................... 3,083 Pupils for whom day a~oommodatiooss bould be provided by the Government ............. ..1. .................................. 4,217 Pupils for whom day aaeommodationa ehould bb provided by the Government in one year (one-fourth t,he pupils unprovided for).. --1.0--.54 New buildings, and additions to old buildings, aud furnishingsfor 2,352 boarders, at $280 per oapita. ............................... &40,9tiO New builtiiugs and additions to old buildings, and fnmiahings for 1,051 day pupils, at 81,500 for arery 30 pupils (including teachers' residenos) ............. , ........................................ 52,500 Repaim and improvements 3f present buildings (estimated). ....... 50,000 .Total ,lor buildiup. ........................................ 643,460 According to Table 3, the Government should expend next year a sum of not less than $643,000 in adding to the accommodations of Government school buildings. This is a very small sum to be ex-pended by the United States Government for such apurpose. It is only a little more than double the amount paid by the citizens of Omaha for their high-school building, and scarcely more than enough to build two such gra,mmar schools as are the boast of the city of . Providence, R. I., and about one-half the sum that was spent in building the Providence City HalL It is estimated that the Government build-ing at San Francisco, will cost not less than $1;000,000, and with that understanding Congress has already appropriat,ed $800,000 to purchase . .C |
