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Show 364 BEPORTS OP INDEPENDENT BCHOOL8 and diachnrge pipes put in, nnd a clothes room plaoed &t one end. , Converted the old opeia house into a barn having 11 stalls for horses and 15 for cows; also room for storing50 torlsof hay sn(1allschoolwagons. Changed n building into coal and wood-house hariugeafficient spsee ira all sgricultnral injplements and co~npil.rt~llenftoar luntbpr all~l~ nae. Painted bakery and milk Itonas, roofs of 6 large buil#lings,and imide of cliniug roo111 nnzi kitchen. Whitewashed barn, warehonses, and board and pirkl t fenoes. 1Jng 1.000 feet. of ditoltes far pipe and flunriug,in connection with waterworks arstaru ant1 for drainage. Built a milk house 16 by 20 feet, and a bakery 20 by 40 feet,'in which was erectecl 2 oven8 with baking. capacity for 1,000 people. Con~tr~~rtedlOOrodhsoonfr dfennee,5brodaof picket fence and233 rods of wire fence. Bnilt 2,500 feet of xidunalk and conatructa,l2 rrliles of ir;igatingditch with r carry-ing eapavity for 150 acres. Broke and fenced in 50 acres of new land. Tore down 12 worthlea8 residences and finished removing 20 nrore, besides leveling fonndations. Estimated oropops. Beans ................. bnshcls.. 50 1 Hsr ...................... tons.. 5 Cabbage .............. .ponncle.. 10,000 Onions.. ............... bushels.. 75 Oeta ................. ..bushels.. 1,000 Pease.. ................... do.. .. 50 Ouion eets ................ do .... 5 Radishes .................. do .... 10 Potatoes .................. do .... 5M) Tnrnips .................. do .... 400 Solpi~orn... ...............t ons.. 15 Fruit .................. g&llons.. 40 Beats .............. ....p ounda.. 10,000 Manufactured in setuingmom. Aprons ............................. 146 Sbeeta ............................. 128 Covers, calico ............. : ........ 6 Towels ............................. 116 Drrssgs .................... 124 Chemises ........................... 18 Pauts,jen~.l. ....................... 80 Drawers ........................... 386 Undershirts. ....................... 54 Garters. ..................... oairs.. 131 Snopendera ........................ 19 Shirts ............................. 17 Pillowcases ........................ 74 Skirta .............................. 71 Cortaios ........................... 80 Waists ............................. 83 Night dresses ...................... 37 It is wall to add that in the ropsirs and improvements above specified under ind~latrialw ork, wit,h t,lm exception of oement, lime, and nails, no expense wen inenrred, a n ~tlh at the lnbor, requiring, ns i t did, skilled and intalligeut anpervision, was performed wholly b~ entplosees and p11pil8 of tbs school, and this ~ ~ n t i f y i n g enbibit is clear evidence of the ability and devotion to dnty of the reapeotire employees, to whom nly thanks '&reh ere expre~sedfo r the willingness and readiness with which they have couperstad with me. All have dischnrged their duties with rare fidelity. In oonolosion, I desire to express my thanks to the Indian Office for many courte-siea and its aotive interest in the progress of the school. Very respectfully, TAOS. H. BREEN, Saperintendent and Special Disa&rsing dgenl. The COB~MIBRIOZIIPO.Rr IRDIAN AXFAIRS. REPORT OF SCHOOL AT GRAND JUNCTION, COLO. SIR: I n c o m p l i ~ n ~ ei~nBi ttrlu~ct ions, I havethe honor to submit my annual report for the fiscal year ended June 30,1895. Plant-The plant comprises 168 Pores of level adobe land, an the sonthwest corner of which are the bnildings. Tbe general frout,age of tbe bn~lrliugsis south. The bars' (lormitory boilcling, a two-story brick, stands at the head of the lawn and fared south. This coutaills boys' dormitories, employers' rooms, employees' kitchen ancl dit~iogroontd, rug room, a n d o f i c~. From the front of this building to the gnte is 405 feet eousiatiug of a lawn bordered by shaded driveways &nd intersected by a foot, rralk'frorn the front of the b~lildingt o the gateway. South nod west of this building, and fsciog the lawn on the east, is the girls' dor-nlitorg, a two-story brick, containing basement storerooms, kitchenanddiningrooms, sapcriatsrldent'B rooms, reee~t ionr oom, girla' dormitories, infirmary, sewing room, birthroorna, slnl employees' rooms. Opposite, across the lawn from the girls' dormitory and facing south, is tha shops boilding, a two-story brick, with carpenter shop downstairs and a shoe and harness ahop upstairs. |