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Show REPORTS CONCERNING INDIANS IN COLORADO. 211 \ fruit is raised owing tc the alkali coltdition of the soil preventing orchard trees from making a good. growth. The dairy herd of 30 cows is second to none in the State of Colorado. A11 the milk that the children can use is produced. Owing to poor dairy facilities little butter is marle. A new dairy building will soon be erected, which will increase the outnut greatly. Rive new buildings have been twice advertised, but all bids so far have been rejected for variolls Causes. New advertisements will be placed immediately. When these are built the plant will be a very beautiful one and fully adequate for 200 pupils. Sel-era1 bnildings have been moved the present season and relo-cated, so as to give the plant a more symmetrical shape. The lawns are well cared for and add much to the beauty of the place. Many large cottonwood trees add to the color scheme during the summer and furnish shade and com-fort to the pupils. Acetylene gas furnlshed'the llluminatiou, but steps are being taken to install electricity in all the buildings. The literal7 work of the school has been above the average. The work there goes on without a hitch or complaint from any source. A large number of the pu ils i ~ i l lc omplete the eighth grade this coming year. grand Junction is favorably located as far as healthfulness is concerned The altitude is about 4,600 feet above sea level. The surrounding valley pro-duces nnlinlited fruit of the very finest quality, enabling. the school to secure much fruit at sninll cost. I t is also ~reeminently an agricultural section. Scores of the pupiln vrvork out during vacation and get valuable instruction from the ranchers of the valley, good trainipg, and examples of the home life so nec-essary to the uplifting of nuy people struggling for civilization. Several thou-sand dollars are in this w ~ eyar ned by the pupils, which is saved for them a s x fund to enable them to hnve a little start when they return to the reservation; $1,150.44 were thus earned during the fourth Quarter of 1906, mostly all of it in the month of June. With one or two notable exceptions, the harmony of the school has been exceptionally good. Quite a number of changes have taken place, which more or less disrupts the eren tenor of school life. Frank Enos, a pupil from the Shoshone Reservation, Wyo., was drowned in May. His body r a s recorered after twenty-eight days and given decent burial in the school cenleter~. The health of the school has been excellent. Two Navaho girls developed tuberculosis and !\-ere sent to their homes. Otherwise the health of the school has been phenomenal. Enrollment, 235. CHARLES E. BUBTON, Superintendent. REPORT OF SUPERIXTENDENT IN CHlRGE OF SOUTHERN UTE AGENCY. IGNACCIOorn. ... A~"C OZ9.G 1S90~6 . The Southern Tjte Agency is located on the banks of the Rio de 10s Pinos in southwestern Colorado, 1+ miles from the station of Ignncio, on the Denver and Rio Grnnde Railway. Ignacio is also the post-office and telegraphic address. The agency offices and \varehouses are situated on the nest bank and the em-ployees' cottages on the east bank of the river, connected by a bridge about 120 feet in length. The agency and school reserve amounts to 360 acres. Of the original reservation 523.079 acres were thrown open to settlement, 483,750 acres reserved for the uuallotted Southern Utes, and 72,810 acres allotted to 375 South-ern Utes, ns fo1lo1r.s: Heads of-families, 320 acres each; nothing to married women 18 years of age iund over; all other members of the tribe taking allot-ments receiving 1GG acres each. The census is as follows: Males, 180; females, 201: total population, 381; males over 18, 106 : females over 14, 138 ; children 6 to 16, 100. Children, 5 to 18 years of age: Dlxles, 59; females, 60 ; total, 119. Births, 19; deaths. 17. The agency records could not be in worse shape. I an, now engaged in prepar-ing the "Register of Indians by families " and "Records of births and deaths," commencing from the date these people were allotted, In 1895. Several of the pay rolls are missing, but as soon as they are obtained from your Office, the work can proceed. A number of very crude attempts have been made here to comply with the regulations as to the keeping of office records, but nothing of any benefit |