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Show REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. ' 39 plants is in itself no small item of yearly expenditure. The appro-priation by Congress for " the construction, purchase, lease, and repair of school buildings and purchase of school sites" was, for the fiscal year 1900, $300,000. This amount has practically all been used as contem-plated by Congress. Other appropriations for specific achools and appropriations made under treaties have been used judiciously for the benefit of the schools intended. Substantial improvements have been made in the shape of barn, and water and sewer systems at the Riverside, Rainy Monntain, and Fort Sill schools, and new school building at Riverside, on Kiowa Reserva-tion, Okla.; hospital at Klamath, Oreg.; 05ce at Lemhi, Idaho; employees' cottage at Meacalero, N. Mex.; temporary dormitory at Hopi (Moqui), Ariz.; improvement of water, sewer, and heating systems at Oneida, Wis.; commissary at Kaw, Okla.; water and sewer systems at Oto, and baths at Pawnee, Okla. ; extensive repairs at Puyal-lup, Wash.; water and sewer system at Quapaw, Ind. T.; barn at Round Valley, Cal.; warehouse, Absentee Shawnee, Okla.; dining room and kitchen at Siletz, Oreg.; electric light at Warm Springs, Oreg.; enlarging school building and water and sewer systems at Yakima, Wash.; laundry at Fort Shaw, Mont.; water, sewer, and electric-light systems at Mescalero, N. Mex.; sewer system at Colo-rado River, Ariz.; sewer system at Western Shoshoni; laundry, Greenville, Cal.; barn, and sewer and water systemw at Fort Mohave, Ariz.; electric light, Flandreau, S. Dak.; warehouse, and water and sewer system at Genoa, Nebr.; gas plant at Kickapoo, Kana.; steam-heating and electric-light plants at Salem, Oreg. Under the provisions of the appropriation act for liscal year 1900 the sale of the Clontarf School property in Minnesota was directed, and on February 12, 1900, it was sold for $4,600 and the school was discontinued as a Government school. Large new brick school and dormitory buildings have been con-structed at Morris, Minn. Large brick and stone dormitory for increaa-ing the capacity of the Navaho School, New Mexico, by 75 pupils, and dormitory at Little Water, on same reservation, increasing the capacity to 60 pupils, are now under contract. The Pyramid Lake Boarding School at the Nevada Agency having burned during the preceding year, an entirely new and modern plant for 80 pupils has been constructed. Additions to dormitories at Oneida, Wis., have increased the capacity of that school. An addition to dormitory, new laundry, and other improvements at the Pima Agency School, Arizona, have added to its efficiency. New school building at Fort Belknap Agency School, Mon-tana, will be completed at an early date. New dormitory and mess hall will replace similar burned buildings at Fort Yuma, Ariz. Large dor-mitory at Carson, Nev., will be ready for occupancy during this school |