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Show IN OOLOBADO. 441 nvrent year has brought to the work people of a better class and full of promise. Lack of efficiency was chaqeahle to the act that the general prosperity of the country enabled capable people to do better outside the service than in, and to change an incapable employee was only to secure another of the same class. Literary work suffered by changes and promotions, and the same evil that affected the industrial work. Much most excellent work was done, hut as a whole it was not up to the desired standard. Water and sewerage.-The completion of the water and sewer systems has relieved the school of a tension that was trying and a danger that threatened the life of the institution. Henlth-Except some caea of tuberculosis returned to the reservation and the accidents that children will have happen them, the school hospital might have been used for a wareliouse during the present summer. From a sanitary standpoint it would be difficult to find a public institution more nearly perfect than ours at the $sent time except in the matter of ventilation of some of the older buildings, plans or the improvement of which are now in your office. hpmremsntl needed.-The pupils, the employees, the homes, and the poultry have been well and anply provided for by present huildinga and available appropriations, but the dairy herd has ou wn its quarters, and a modern dairy barn capable of accommodating a dai her3 "o' f 30 cows has been made the subject of a request for appropriation, as bas fge erection of a superintendent's cot% These and material for an.improvement of the walks and drives will give to the p t all of the essentials of a prosperous healthful school, except good pupils and good teachers and a part of each of these we now have and the matter of increasing the supply will hemuch less matters of difficulty when we have gotten what available funds and requested appro-priations will furnlsh. Ooting work.-This has not only grown in the number of pu ils sent out, but much of the work of the outing upils is a decided advance on wag in the past. In the t most of the work has k n pl owing, harrowing, cleaning or openlng irrigating E h w , haymaking, irrigatin levelling, and digging tree holes. During the year just past one of onr boys has gad several months of continuous work as a carpenter under one of the contractors in Grand Junction. Another has had several months with a market gardener and small fruit grower, and he has sent the lad back to us an expert in the preparation of a garden and in transplanting. Another has been in immediate c h q , under direction, of a tract of land being put in cultivation and prepared for a home. Another has had several weeks with horses kept an a nearby ranch and in training for light harneaa track work, while others have had training during their outings in thinnin fruit, irrigating trees spraying trees, picking and assorting fruit. The girls have fad excellent training in home-keeping on the fruit farms of some of the best peopIk in the neighborhood. All this I deem the bestof training, especially as it isalmost all training in agricul-tural and horticnltural life. To me it seems especially valuable because of a finn belief that at no very dietant day the great fruitgrowing sedionsof our country will be the irrigated Mom, and 1 have personal knowledge of Innumerable places on the Indian raservations of the southwest where there are opportunities for the develop-ment of small hut succezsful fruit farms. The Indisn youth who becomes a fru& grower is not a nomad in any sense of the word; nor are the devoteesof horticulture counted among those of rags and hovels. The mnakingof such homes as characterize these people I deem the highest to which the lover of country life can aspire and the instillation of such knowledgein the Indian youth the hi8hest attainable by aschool. The work of the year in these particulars basmsde the industrial training the most gratifying in the history of the school. For years I have held out to the pupils, as a ren,ard for goad conduct and industry at home, the privilege of "going out to work." Never before has it been taken advantage of to the same extent. One of the most gratifying conditions in it lies in the fact that in all save three cases, when an employer has called s. second time for help, he has asked for the same pupil he had employed before. This may have been because he yet believed inan exploded myth that an Indian will not work, hut as there has been some evidence to the contrar in Grand Valley for the past fifteen warn, I am pleased to believe that the girls an$ boys who have gone out from the school to work during the year just past have been unusually earnest and faithful. Very respectfully, THEO.G . LEMMONSu, perintendent. TEE Coararraaro~mo a INDIAANapa ras. |