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Show KEPORT OF THE COM?dISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. 41 Indian Awsociation donated a tract of land for the site, which was sup-plemented by another from the Santa Fe Railway Company. A com-plete modern school, with sewer and water systems, is now under contract, and will probably be ready for occupancy by the first of next January. A complete modern manual training building has been constructed at Phoenix, Ariz., out of a special appropriation therefor. This is the first building of this character erected for the Indian school service. The Phoenix school proposes to make this department one of its principal features. The appropriation of $60,000 for an Indian training school at Hay-ward, Wis., not being sufficient to give a plant of the size required by the scholastic population contributary thereto, Congress supplemented it with an additional sum of $15,000. The buildings are now under contract, located on a site donated by the citizens of Hayward. They will be modern and complete in a11 their appurtenants, representing the highest type of plant devised for the special requirement8 of an Indian school. The Jicarilla Apache Reservation, situated in the northwestern por-tion of the Territory of New Mexico, has never had school facilities for the 150 or 200 children of school age. Several years ago steps were taken to provide them, and upon the representations of several Government officials a tract of land was purchased from one Gabriel Lucero, but the funds for the erection of the school building not being available, nothing was done. Plans, however, were early in this year prepared for a boarding school with 150 capacity; but after sinking a well for domestic water purposes it was discovered by United States Indian Inspector Walter H. Graves that a more available site could be secured in the immediate neighborhood, where water could be obtained from a running stream. The site was accordingly so changed and the buildings are now in course of construction, about 2 miles northwefit of Dulce, N. Mex. The Indians are anxious for the school and it will be readily filled to the limit of its capacity. PROPOSED NEW BUILDINGS AXD PLASTL Owing to unfavorable location of the site, it has been decided that the Indian school at Perris, Cal., can not be made the industrial school for Southern California, as was contemplated. Failure of water, unsuitableness of soil, and climatic conditions are such that while it is not the purpose of this office to discontinue the school, it is yet nnde-sirable to ask Congress for large appropriations to transform it into a well-equipped tmining school. For the present it will be conducted as an Indian boarding school. The scholastic population of this por-tion of California is about 1,200, and it can readily be seen that here is a profitable field for the educational influence of a large training |