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Show 8 BEPW OP THE OOMMISSIONEB OF INDIAN bffFAI&a these States, and to take such action as was deemed necessary to stmp OI& the disease. This work is in progres at the present time, and very few diseased animals have been found, but all such have been immediately killed and the carcassas burned. EMPLOYMENT. The work of the Indian employment bureau has continued to progress. The headquarten of the supervisor of Indian employment are in Denver, Colo. He has four assistant supervisors, at various points in the Indian country, and others will be provided as fast as conditions warrant and funds are available. One of the most interesting developments of the employment work during the year has been the offer of two large railway systems to provide opportunities for school boys who are learning trades or who are mechanically inclbied, and for returned students who have re-ceived training in trades. This cooperation should give great im-petus to industrial education among the Indians. It will mean that good employment can be found for hundreds of Indian boys and young men at fair wages in the shops of these railroads; at the same time they will have an opportunity to thoroughly finish the learning of their trades and make themselves competent, skilled workmen. From one school alone, at its close this year, 39 boys with trades partly learned were sent to these shops. The supervisor of employment has in other ways cooperated with the work of the schools. Particular attention has been given to the enlargement of the outing systems of the various reservation and non-reservation boarding schools. Special efforts are being made to get in communication with returned students. Last year the supervisor wrote personal letters to over 600 returned students in which he offered the services of the employment bureau in securing suitable work. I consider these developments to be of great significance. The sys-tematic connecting of the industrial education of the schools with the real work of the world will mean the dawning of a new day in Indian education, and, from the human side, the bridging over of that critical period in a boy's life when he leaves school and starts to work is a service of far-reaching importance. Sympathetic dim-tion during those two or three critical years will mean the economic and moral salvation of many boys and young men. A large number of Indians have been employed, as usual, on irriga-tion works, railway construction, and other projects. The '<Two Medicine" irrigation project on the Blackfeet Reserva-tion, Mont., is furnishing work for a large number of Indians. The overseer in charge reports $53,805.94 earned by the Indians and their |