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Show 990 RI3POR*B OF THE ~BPAR'PxSNT OF TBE ISTRRIOR. blacksmithing, plumbing, painting, or engineerin The irls are tau ht to cut, fit, and make their own clothes, do $eix own7aundry wort nurse the sick, and do general housework. Cooking classes shodd be established at this school. The outing system, inaugurated two years ago, has been very suc-cessful. Last year a number of the boys were em loyed on the Santa Fe Railroad, and this year 40 bo s were sent to 8olorado to work in the sugar-beet fields. The schoo9 h as been recently equi ped with a modern heating lant and a girls' home, with a capacity or 150, will be bnilt during &e yiar. P There are nine day schools under the supervision of the superin-tendent of this school. The Santa Clara School has been unusually successful. With an enrollment of 28 the average attendance was 24. The work of the school is excellent, and the pupils are making ood rogress in learning English. Most of their homes are clean, anf the-gouses of some returned students are furnished with carpets, beds, cooking stoves, etc. The class room and employees' quarters of this school are crowded, and better facilities would add greatly to its efficiency. New buildin s have been erected, and this is now the lar est and best-equi ped Indian school in the Northwest. The genera condi-tions at tie school showed improvement over those prevailing at the time of my visit the previous year, and the boys who have graduated from the industrial departments have done well. This school is located in a section where almost all kinds of fruit can be raised and eneral agricultural work carried on to advantage. It would there-fore seem advisable to have these ursuits carried on more exten-sively than at other schools in less-! avo red regions and pupils given more extensive training in farming, dairying, and horticulture. In order that this may be accomplished, it is recommended that addi-tional land be purchased. BTLETE SCHOOL. The average attendance for the year was practically up to the enrollment-63. The school has a good farm, well fenced, and mostly under cultivation. It is es ecially necessary here that the boys be imtructed in agriculture, inching stock raising and dai ing, and the girls be tau ht cooking, the care of milk, and butter mzng, since the children's !I omes are in a section particularly well adapted to farming and grazin The class-room wor f was good. The grounds and buildings have been improved since my previous visit. There are few facilities for 4ving industrial instruction, and it would seem advisable that the larger pupils should be transferred to the Chemawa school as soon as t,he are sufficiently advanced. It is believed that this agency could wid advantage be united with the Grande Ronde A ency, where the conditions are similar, and that unitin the two wou f d result in bene-fit to both. The Siletz Indians are seb-supporting and fairly well to do, and are capable of looking after their own affairs. Two or three day schools could be conducted to advantage on the reservation. |
