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Show IN COLORADO. REPORT OF SCHOOL AT FORT LEWIS, COLO. FORTL EWISS caooL. COLO.A, ugtut z i , 1898. SIR: I have the honor to submit the following report forthe fiscal year ending June 30. 1898: Desaiptive.-Fort LewisSchool is situated at thebaseof the La PlataMountains, in southwestern Colorado, 4 miles from Hespeins village and station and 12 miles from Durango, the market town. The La Plata River flows through the reserva-tion, which is about 10 square miles in extent and adjoins the Southern Ute Reservation. The altitude is about 8,000 feet, and people affl~ctedw ltb heart dis-ease are liable tofind it ratherinjurlous. The summers aredellghtful; thewinters usnally severe. the snow sometimes reaching a depth of 8 feet. The plaza, about a quarter of a mile wide by one-half mile long. is in ahout the middle of the reservation, and most of tbe twenty-two bulld~ngs which were formerly accnpied by the military are located along its outer edges. It 1s bordered by a driveway, rows of fine shade trees, streams of runnlng water, and a good plank sidewalk. Some of the front yards were sodded in the spring and nice lawns started, but owing to my inability to get lawn mowere they do not look as well &q I would like to have them. Most of the bulldings are old and somewhat dilapidated, but when you authorize the contemplated repairs. which are so urgently needed, they can be made quite serviceable and neat looking as well as of the m<mt i,ractical value m a 1u:tjority of the srudonrs. Sew ditcnes Iuirr hrcn mado. old ones onlorced. irrteurion ha.; been toozhr. and soveral acre* of new land ~ ~ ~ ~~~ broken; A severe a& "nus<al hailstorm worke'd havoc with our aarden this year, so r1li.t then. is :t shtrrr:~gai l r tlm sulflirlyo f vceetnbles. TLc nhoo cl~oth, as turno 1 our 5 * i pairs uf shear. each pairof which will outwear thrcooairsof lhosui~~rnisheitlln dtv vontravt. A '=rat deal of renuiring was also done, and I consider the money spent in running tEe shoe shop a profitasle invest-ment for the Government, without taking into account the fact that a valuable trndr in tnngl~t. The work of the sewing room null of the tailor shop has heen satisfactory. The girls hare bcrn rncourngcd to buy material and make them own <lrensosu. ~rdetrh n direction of the yeanrstrrsaes, nnll t l l r n>snlti hare been matilying. bcwlng and |