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Show REPORT OF THE CO~IBBIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRB. 49 completed, but owing to defects in the reservoir holding the water supply, has not been opened. As soon as the defects are remedied it will be completed. Three new day schools for the Pima Indrans are now in process of erection. They will be located at Casa Blanca, Blackwater, and Lehi. They will ertch have a capacity for about 30 pupils. By reason of their isolation, a residence for the teacher and hi wife will be attached to each school. Sherman Institute, Riverside, Cal., was opened September 1. The main buildings and a portion of the minor ones have been completed. It is one of the best planned and constructed schools in the service. For increasing the efficiency of the plant there are now $25,800 avail-able, which, with $5;000 for minor improvements, will make it an admirable school. A farm of 100 acres has been purchased, for which Congress has allowed $15,000 for industrial buildings. At Chemwa, Oreg., School, near Salem, substantial improvements are being made to the plant. These consist of a brick dormitory, $20,000; industrial building, $6,000; laundry, $4,000; electric lightand steam heat, $11,000. These improvements, with a new brickdormitory for boys authorized by Congress, should make this one of the best plants in the service. The new plant to accommodate 75 pupils on the Southern Ute Res-ervation in Colorado has been completed, and will be opened for occu-pancy during the school year. Although limited in capacity, it is yet complete in all its appointments. A new $8,000 industrial building completed at Santa Fe School, New Mexico, will give greatly needed facilities for proper instruction to the pupils. The school building at Umatilla Reservation, in Oregon, having become in a dangerous condition, was torn down and a new one erected in its place. The appointment of two competent men for the positions of super-visor of engineering and supervisor of construction has proved, as was anticipated in the last annual report, ''of great benefit to the service," and resulted in a more economical expenditure of funds available for the installation of new plants and the improvement of of old ones. Grater attention has been paid to adornment of the lawns and ram-pussea at the various schools. Superintendents have been instructed to beautify the grounds by the laying out of orderly walks and drives, planting of flowers, trees, and ornamental shrubs. To do all this requires only a small expenditure of money, and will prove both of benefit to the pupils as practical instruction and pleasing to the eye of the beholder. 9674--02--4 |
