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Show I : ' REPORTS OF SUPERIN~ENDENTS OF scHooL8. 375 believe no other institution, public or private, with the same number of children, can spow. Ld.-There are connected with the school somewhere between Z5,W and 30,000 Mres of land, about 4W acres of whiah 81% inclosed by hsrW-wrre fence and 60 acre8 nuder cultivation. The sail iu good and productive, but from the peonliar topography of the farm must ha cultivated in terraced areas. rhia makes the imme-diate supervision of boys angagad in fzrm work vary difficult, and really impossible for one narsou to oronerlv nerforrn. ~coorn'modatio~s.lI.i~reIinu'u drod pnpila uau, n.itb<,ul any acl~liti~~nonultl ay fur bnildioys, rte., 1,s rukott care uf h a , uud thi8 oullllser ougllt to he rnrrlllecl within the rutui~bgy ear. Through the aerviees of l.iaut. I'lnmrgttr, the ?iave,ioee :rrorilkiog much ~ntun:.sti n u~ (:rlreadg fonr childreu bsro b,,un b~.ouyhtin h? rh<,iry ilrc~~tnl, end, sr rrrr uortlnerrr line ot'tLeir reservation is e.ithin SO mdea t,f u*, \%Lilry n,L;#Ll~ liitl n~ilr,. iroul i'un I). !iantrc, tlb,l difTerenee in distance is n~uch iu our t'rvol.. l'licn tho Jiearillar arc bur XU nliler r'roan boru, xhd Capt. Hullis baa kindly t h r ~wult rv grnnt indurllcn on our oi8io. The agent of tltn l'imur, .I. Roe Yonox,eaq., hua written encuun~cin?wr urda.antl fromall ai~les.exeentfrvnt~hn raservntlon the Joalrlrnr~tI :tr) but a fa; gilt? fr& bere, come s i p s tha6 the Indians are being pushed in the iini of progress. The present force of eplploy6s, with very few exceptions, sre commendsble in every way. V e ~ yrd speotfoIly, THOS. H. BREEN, St'pslintendent. The CoPx18szoh-ER OF INDIAN APPAIRS. -- REPORT OF SCHOOL AT GRAND JUNCTION, COLO. GRANDJ uNcnos . COLO.. .A ve- ust $7, 1894. SIR: In comp~ianod with yoir instructions, I have the honor to submit nly annual report for the fisunl year ending June 30, 1894. In following the topical report for 1893, it is nnfortnuate thst the first year of one administration is brought into oompariaon with the last year of n preoecling, bnt 88 this will happen onoa in four year8 in epite of the desira of superintendents to keep trne and tried msiatanta, sooh comparison oornea not heoense of my desire, hut in spite of it. The breaking out of scarlet fever during riaoation prsolnded the bringing in of pupils who were ready to come until so !ate that they wera pnt in school elsewhere and we missed them entirely. Thus the year beg&n with s, lighter attendance than res mticipsted, s n o l much lighter than was desired. Of the changes of omploy6s and the efforts of the new to take entire charge and oanse the removal and replaoement of former employes, ss well as securing the anperintendency for the head and front of this corps of anpplanters, your office has already heard snffioient. This effort, however, y e ms an oppdrtunity to see the aff?otions and tltitnde of lodim children terri ly tested. Rot for one in8tsnt did the affection oEhe chill dren for their old friends-former employds trne and tried-waver; nnd to-day the nanle8 of those who were relieved sre frequently heard in aolioitons conversa-tions, while those who came distilrbed, and are gone, are rarely mentioned. This is not cited a8 a critidism so much an callin attention to the fact that grati-tnde and kind remembrance, so often denied to t%e Indian, do hold a place in his being and oeu be cultivated. So loug as it is regarded as a necessary custom to ohawe the Indian workers with each change of administration, jo?t so long will many sppointrnents necesssrily he made that vary brief experience wlll demonstrstte are nnwholsolue to the service, and consequent removal8 mnet follow. Elsewhere, aa it has been here, appointment8 will he mada that are of great value to the advance of the service. Literary work.- The advent of a principal teacher and disciplinarian who had never taught s multth in his life, snd who was pasaessed of e brogue ao decided thst, whilo it was that of mv remoter ancestry, I sometimes misunderstood him end sometimes oonld not understand him st ill1 (it is a pity snoh people om, write English without writing the brogue, then the appointive power8 and the civil-servioe examiners oonld know the difficulties that besot people t~yirxgto learn & language from people who oan not speslr it), was not very encouraging, for was he a snccees as a teacher. After his relief, Mr. R. J. Snyder came as a c~vil-service appointee and has been earnestly tryin8 to bring up that particular depsrtrnent. Plant.-The plant is identical with that of lat year, save that the school building mentioned has since been completed and pot in "an. Matmu.-In the luss of Mrs. Ifose Bales anr school 1086 a matron second to none who has ever served in the Indian service. "We shall not look upon her like again.'' Yet Miss Hortenso Castlio is in very many respects a. model matron, lacking some in |