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Show year. The plant at Fort Lewis, Colo., will be materially improved by the brick dormitory, mess hall, and hospi.ta1 now being constructed. Supt. John H. Seger, of Seger Colony School, Oklahoma, has trained anumber of his boys in brickmaking, bricklaying, and stone quarrying, cutting, and laying, and they are now engaged in putting in the foun-dations for a new brick school building at that point. The cesspool method of disposing of sewage matter at the Grand Junction School, Colorado, having become a menace to the health of the pupils, has been corrected by the installation of a complete system of sewerage. The amount appropriated by Congress for an addition to the school building at Haskell Institute, Kansas, not being sufficient to make one of adequate size, it was supplemented by an additional amount, and the addition is now under contract, which, when completed, will be of great benefit and relieve the crowded schoolrooms. The Indian appropriation act for the 6scal year 1899 set aside $35,000 for a new school plant at Red Lake, Minn., and a190 $20,000 for another at Leech h k e in the same State. These buildings were placed under contract during the year and are now ready for occupancy. They are modern and commodious, and will undoubtedly be filled to the limit of their capacity. Under the provisions of the appropriation act for 1900, $20,000 were set aside for the erection of additional schools at points on the Chippewa Reservation in Minnesota, and in accordance with this item, three neat little boarding schools have been built at the following: (1) Cross Lake, at the "Narrows," on north shore of Red Lake; (2) Cass Lake, and (3) Bena. All these schools are now in operation. While they are not modern in their construction, they are considered as nuclei for larger schools whenever aufficient funds become available. By the completion at the Tomah School, Wisconsin, of the follow-ing buildings now under contract, hospital, superintendent's quarters, dormitory, and mess hall, the capacity of that institution will be increased to 225 pupils. In the appropriation act of 1899, $25,000 were set aside for "a new stone building," at Pipestone, Minn.; but that amount, in the opinion of this Office, was thought to be sufficient for two buildings which were prefelable, consequently the appropriation was not used, and in the act for 1900 the same sum was reappropriated for one or more build-ings. Plans were prepared for a dormitory and mess hall, but owing to complications having arisen as to the title of the Pipeatone Indian Reservation on which the school was located, the matter was held in abeyance until a favorable decision was rendered by the Comptroller. The buildings are now under contract. When completed they will increase the capacity of this school from 100 to 175 or 200 pupils. Congress having provided $60,000 for the erection of a school plant for the Walapai Indians, at Trnxton Chnyon, Ariz., the Massachusetts |