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Show REPORT CONOEBNING INDIAN8 IN COLORADO. REPORT OE SCHOOL BUPEBINTERDEFI IN OH-E OP BOUTHERx UTE AGENCY. IaxAcro, Oom., August 922, 1905. The' agency and school is located 1s miles north of the station of Ignaeio, on the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad, southwestern Colorado. Owing to the fact that I am malting a correct census, and that it is not now completed, I can not now give the census far this year. The general health of the southern Ute is rood There was hut little sickness in the school or on the reservation last year.. Our physician (coutrncr, livtss ill Buyrirld, T miles norrh. They are wwh-liultillg 11 tl~Il'pIl~llien e frolll that point IIlrot~gLIt ile agr,la'y ru lynnrio Station. I trust the Denarlul$:ut \\.ill RI~I IPOI .~o. f tlw i~t*tnllafiouo f x i,l~nneh ere. \Yich telephone canl;ections with t6iphysiciau it would be much inore g,tiafactory. The school was filled to its capacity all the year. The pupils appear willing and urrentire, hut o\ving to tht: fn~r,la.r,tc l ~ n r ~ gi l le +~.r nl,lr,f6s>rsh ec were poorly disriplitred. Wv h:tre tbv pal~ilr to iftcrt!nsv tlw FVIIUOI 10 twit.^ its itresent sire. This woltld rirc bvtr'br xnli$rie* for c~m!,lovves. 2nd 11~31ie i t nossihl6r 10 refxi18 competent ones. I do not apvrove of frequent changes. As'this is the third year for a school among these people, can not hope to take care of the surplus pupils by sending them away, and they are too scattered to advocate a day school. I therefore trust the Office will enlarge our present plant. The water supply nine months of the year is not what it should be. We are compelled to depend on a pipe leading from the r i ~ e rto the well: This fur-nishes water that is filled with sediment This could be avoided by digging a .well to a proper depth between the present one and the river, or the building- f a filter. There are several Indians under my charge who have good farms, and they were made so largely by their own efforts. There are also several good farms lying idle. I am doing what I can to get the owners on them and at w.ork. Many need farm implements that I have not got. Others need new land broken, and we can not expect them to break this land with their ponies, and we havo not enough horses to do it far them. Laat winter was very hard on stock. The snow was very deep, and several head were lost About 300 head of yonies have been sold this year. I would be glad if they would sell most of them. They spend nluch of their time after these ponies, and when they try to sell they average about $8 or $7 per head. I hope to be able to report a change in tilese people the coming year, and will work expecting that change. There should be three times the land farmed. If the Office mill assist me by supplying the implements and teams, thereby removing the excuses furnished, it can he. Bunmx B. CUBT~, Superintendent and isnecial Disbursing Agent. REPORTS CONCERNING INDIAN8 IN IDAHO. REPORT OF SCHOOL SUPERIATENDEPT IN CHAWE OF FORT HALL AGENCY. Rossmsn, IDAHOA, ugust 1?2,1905. The Fort Hall boarding school now located at Rossfork, Idaho, was moved from the old site, 17 miles from the agency and what was known as the old Eort Hall school, to a pint I mile south of the agency. This plant now con-sists of five stone huildinrs. as follows: One dormitory. one mesa. hall and employees' quarters, one sc6ool building, one laundry, and one boiler and pump house. In addition to the buildings above named, a frame barn and ice house were erected. A steel tower and large wooden tank 80 feet high where tank rests uoon floor of tower was also erected when the new buildings were con-struete& The plant as it now stands is one of the best in the entire service of its capacity. This plant will not accommodate, however, all the available pupils on the reservation, and it is earnestly hoped that at the coming session of Congress a sufficient amount of money may be appropriated for an additional dormitory and also for a hospital. This matter will be placed before your office in n separate communication with an earnest appeal for the necessary money with which to construct the buildings. |
