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Show REPORT OF THE COIM~IYSIOSER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 21 introduction of the study of horticoltnre, both as a means of pleasure and a profitable enterprise. The prominence with which road making now appeals to the average citizen of our republic preseuts the neces- 8it.y for its introduction on our reservations and at the schools. R&SU& OF NEW WORK. The largest of the new school plants are those in course of erection for White Earth and Termillion Lake, Minn. They are complete in every detail, and will accommodate each about 150 pupils. After mature deliberation the project for the erection of a new school at Mount Scott, on the Kiowa Reservation, Okla., was abandoned, and in lieu the present schools were enlarged by the addition of a mess hall at Fort Sill, and a dormitory and mess ball at Riverside, and dormi-tory, mess hall, and other buildings at Rainy Xonntain, increasing the capacity of each school tifty or more pupils. A new school building at Cherokee, N. 0.; new dormitory and buildings at Blandrean, S. Dak.; Mount Pleasant, Mich.; Greenville, Cal.; Arapaho, Okla., have been constructed; also a new building at Little Water school, Navajo Res-ervation, with a sufficient water supply. The new schools at Rapid City, 8. Dak.; Toledo, Iowa, for the Iowa Sae and FOXIn dians; Red 'Moon and Cantonment, on Cheyenne and Arapaho Reservation, have been completed, and will be opened early in the next school year. A new auditorium at Haskell Institute will he an ornan~ent and useful additSon to the plant. Phoenix, Arin., admirably located for a large southwestern Indian uchool, has by Congressional appropriation hadits school increased from 400 pupils to 600, and new dormitories and other necessary buildings provided for. The scl~oola t Clontarf not proving satisfactory as an Indian school, principally by reason of the nearness of its location to Morris, Minn., has been discontinued and merged into the school at that point. Situated in the extreme southwestern part of Utah, and the northwestern portion of Arizona, reside a small section of the Pah Ute tribe, known as Shehits and Haibabs. A small school has been established for their benefit at St. George, Utah, and excel-lent results are anticipated with these hitherto neglected Indians. At s great many of the schools, buildings and other improvements of a minor nature havc been made, increasing the efficiency and moderniz-ing their equipments. Electric~lightp lants have been provided at Lac du Flambeau school, Wisconsin, and other points; water, bathing, and ventilating systems, have been introduced at many schools. PLANS AND SUGGESTIONS FOR IMPROVEMENTS. During the spring the school plants at Fort Berthold, N. Dak., and at Winnebago, on the Omaha and Winnebago Agency, Nebr., mere destroyed by fire, thus depriving the children of those reservations of school facilities. Plans for a new building at Fort Bcrthold to accom-modate 75 pupils, and at Winnebago for 150 pupils, are now being pre- . pared, and these schools will be ready for occupancy September, 1899. |