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Show has been made. With the exception of a small the entire school was of a primary g~ade: The good, and the uplls receive instruction mear-pentry, blacksmithing, and shoemad)ing. Comparatively little farm-in IS possible, because of t h ~oo r soil and the scarcity of water. %he outing system is carrle $ on here to as great an extent as local conditions ermit. Last fall 30 boys were sent to the su ar beet fields of Co f' orado, where they worked durin the months of ieptem- ber and October. Two ris ar.e atten ding hig5 , school in Albuquerque. They work morning an evenmg, and earn $1 a week. One of these &Is made the highest monthly record lust prior to the time of my %it. The superintendent of this school has under his jurisdiction 6 ~ueblosw. ith 9 day schools. having- a total enrollment of 256. They ire all h rented buddin@. ' The Pueblo Indians were formerly much opposed to sending their children to school, but it is now much easier to obtain pu ils than before. The supenntendent states that the Lagunas taK e more kindly to the schools than an of the other Pueblos, and, upon the whole, are better worker?. zast year the Santa Fe Railroad em-ployed alarge number of their oung men, many of whom are returned. students, to work on the roaBand in the car shops at Albuquerque, Gallup, and Winslow, their earnmgs amounting to over %40,000. JICdRlLLd SCHOOL The buildin are all new, and the general condition of the school plant is exce#nt. A 5,000,000-gallon reservoir had recently been com leted and filled, which furnished sufficient water for the school buil%inga, but as the source of supp1y.i~f rozen up half fhe year there is little water available during the wmter season. ,Owing to lack of water farming can not be carried on very extensively, which pre-cludes giving roper a cultural instruction to the upils. All the E up& are fulP blo ods, and have been in schooP only two ears None of t em knew any En hsh on entenng school, and, consiiering this fact, the progress maie js satisfactory. The school is over-crowded, and many of the chddren on the reservation are not in school. The sanitary cpnditions are excellent. This school is doing good work and at the tune of my.vkit was having a beneficial i d u - ence upon th.e old people of the tnbe. UWTd P& SCAOOL The ca acity of the school is 300 and the enrollment 329, which could be Pa rgely increased if additional accommodations were pro-vided. The sanitary condition was good and the health of the pupils excellent. Farming is carried on by means of ~i ation as far as is ossible with the limited amount of water avallabye. The facilities !or industrial instruction are goqd. The carpenter and his .detail have attended to the repam of the plant, and at the time of my visit were doing enter work on the employees' cottages then being built. A of boys has been mstructed at the tailor shop, and a school clothing is made by them. Three graduates of t he school are employed m a clothing factory m Albuquerque, and others have found employment in the neighboring towns. Some of the boys have been taught shoemaking, others |
