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Show . . 84 REPORT OF THE COMWBSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. much has been left undone, causing adverse criticism until fully explained. .The appropriation has been exhausted, and more could have been judiciously expended. Improvements have been made during the year as follows: Water systems for the Cheyenne, Cantonment, and Arapaho schools on Cheyenne and Arapaho Agency, Okla.; general improvements, such as ring baths, ctc., at Colville Agency school, Wash.; new dormi-tory and irrigation plant, Fort Yuma, Ariz.; improvements to water system at Fort Lewis, Colo.; extension of water system at Green Bay Agency school, Wis.; water system at Hoopa Valley, Cal.; an elabo-rate and extensive water, sewer, and irrigating system at Jicarilla, N. Mex.; new hospital at Klamath, Oreg.; heating plant for Lac dn Flambeau, Wis.; acetylene gas plant for Leech Lake, Minn.; sub-stantial improvements at Ponca, Okla.; water system, Sauk and Fox, Okla.; extension of water system at Yakima, Wash.; laundry at Oneida, Wis.; ice plant, irrigation ditch, workhouse and employees' quarters at San Carlos School, Ariz.; ice plant at Pima, Ariz. ; shops at Greenville, Cal.; barn at Pawnee, Okla.; barns, etc., at Cass Lake, Minn.; water system at Yankton, S. Dak. The capacities of a number of schools have been increased by the erection of new dormitories, such as Fort Yuma, Ariz. ; Navaho, Ariz. ; Round Valley, Cal.; Seger Colony, Okla., and Umatilla, Oreg. The new school plant for the Winnebago Reservation in Nebraska has been completed, and is a substantial one for the accommodation of 80 to 100 pupils. It opens September 1 of the present year. A boarding school plant for the Southern Ute Reservation in Colo-rado is now under contract, and will be ready for occupancy by Jan-uary 1. It is a complete plant for 75 children, and is the fulfillment of the terms of the treaty made years ago. The school for the Jicarilla Apache, of New Mexico, has been com-pleted, and will be opened at the beginning of the present school year. It is modern in all its appointments, and will accommodate 125 children. Aside from tho general appropriation Congress makes specific pro-visions for improvements, new buildings, eta., at certain achools, while at other places treaty funds are available. The new school at Ihyward, Wis., has been completed, and will be opened for pupils at the beginning of the present scholastic year. At Truxton Canyon, Ariz., a sobool plant has been completed, and was opened .Tnly 1 as a boarding school. Congress having made an appropriation of $12,000 for a new school building, it is now being erected, and will materially increase the accommodations of the plant. A new dormitory has been built at Mount Pleasant, Mich., together with additions to the mess hall and school buildings, which will restore |