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Show IN COLORADO. 347 Prospects.-The stronger grows my conviction each succeeding year that this school canwithin the next few ears bethe equal (numerically) of any in the serv-ice; and I 6rmly believe thatbefore five yearselaps?noless than 1,000 childrenwill be in attendance, provided the proper accommodat~onas re furnished them. All of which is respectfully submitted. THOS. E. BBEENS, uprinte&nt. The CO~~ISSIONOEF RIN DIANA FFA~S. REPORT OF SCHOOL AT GRAND JUNCTION, COLO. GRANDJ UNCTICOONLO. .. .S e-p tember I . 1897. SIR: I have the honor to submit this my seventh annual report of this school, and beg to refer you to former reports as to location and plant. No new departments have been added during the year, and in the several depart-ments as existing last year we have had only the ordinary vicissitudesof the service to bear. The work as a whole has heen good. The changesmade by your o5ce in the force of employees have been decidedly beneficial. By these, leading and directing forces that are truly loyal have been brought to the heads of wavering, inefficient departments, and of the year I can truly say "the last hss been better than the first," and I am ready to enter upon a new year equipped for excellent work. The needs are identical with those specified in my annual report last year and the year preceding, except as to the assembly hall and the addition to or an inde-pendent dormitory, both of which have been rovided for by the last Congress. In order to supply a sewing room sufficientyy large and so lighted as to permit of fulfilling the requirements of the school, to supply additional and properly lighted dormitory room for girls now in attendance and the proposed increase, an addition to the girls' dormitory should be erected. Thls should be of brick, a south wing increasing present dining-room space md making well-lighted and well ventilated sewing room, dormitory rooms, and sitting room. This addition should be 30 by 80 feet, with porch the fall length on the east side. This will cost $8,050. For safety, economy, comfort, and health, the plant should he heated by steam and lishted by electricity. A steam plnnt that will heat the buildings uniformly, run a dynamo for lighting the place, furnish iathe power and steam for cooking, and be fired with "slack" at adollar or a d o l k and a half per ton instead of coal, lump or nut, at two and a half or three dollars per ton, can be furnished and put in for $11,900. Regardlug the electric-light and steam-heating plants, it has been found neces-sary to add abont one-third to the previously estimated wst, because of protection to required factory products, the recent extension of the plant, and the advance in cost of labor. There is one need that has never arisen before. It seems at this writing, owing to advance in the price of beef, that it will be advisable and economical to buy some range stock to consume a large surplus of hay that the farm promises this ye?=. As this yield will he larger with each successive year, I will soon correspond mth you with a view to establishing a beef herd in connection with the best milk ' herd in the service. Following is a tabulated statement of school products for the year: SEWING ROOM. ! Aurons, assorted ............ 132 1 Capes ......................... 6 Shirts, assorted ............. 8 ~hirts:flannel, bovs' ........ 6 I Cbemiloons ................. 127 Coat, flannel, boy's .......... 1 Drawers, assorted.. . .pairn.. 206 Dresses, night.. ............ 18 Pants, jean, boys' ..... pairs.. 4 Sashes ...................... 14 Skirts: ...................... 4 1 Towels 1:::: ;:~:~~LL:~ Undershirts ................. 160 Wa~sts 44601 Cloths, table ................ 14 Curtain ..................... 1 Dresses ..................... 89 Panta, flannel, boys'..pairs.. 4 Pillowcases .................. 167 Sheets. bed ........... 181 |