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Show I l8 BEPORT OF THE GfJMMISSIONER OF INDIAN bFFbIB& In order to furnish educational facilities for a number of Navajo children in any school it will probably be necessary to build a few more boarding-school plants, with a capacity of from 150 to 200 - pupils. A careful study of this situation is now being made. During the past year nonreservation schools at Fort Shaw, Mont., Chamberlain, S. Dak., Fort Lewis, Cola., and Morris, Minn., were discontinued. One new boarding.schoo1 plant at Chin Lee, N. Mex., . was completed. Three day schools were discontinued during the year and 28 new day schools opened, giving a total increase of 25 day schools during the past year. Some of the more important changes during the year were as follows: The Rincon day school in California was discontinued, and the Indian children who formerly attended the school were placed in the public schools in that community. A superintendency was established last year at Upperlake, Cal. It will include Ukiah, Potter Valley, and the Indians in and about these points. A superintendency has been established at Roseburg, Oreg., to afford better protection to a large number of Indians not under the jurisdiction of the various superintendents in Oregon. The location of the agency headquarters for the Coeur d'Alene Reservation in Idaho will be moved from Tekoa, Wash., to the reservation proper. A new site has been reserved for agency pur-poses on the reservation and arrangements have been made to trans-fer the headquarters as soon as new buildings can be constructed. The San Xavier Mission day school was transferred to the Gov-ernment during the year. The buildings were leased by the Govern-ment and the employee-three teachers and one housekeeper-listed on the civil service roll March 1, 1910. The department ehanged the name of the Puyallup School to Cushman School at the request of the Tacoma Commercial Club and Senator Jones, of Washington, in honor of the late Prancis W. Cushman, former Representative from Washington. The Salt River Reservation has been separated from Pima Agency and placed under the jurisdiction of the Camp McDowell superin-tendent. The property and employees of the Salt River and Lehi day schools have been transferred to Camp McDowell. One large new day-school plant is contemplated at Salt River to accommodate the Camp McDowell Indians who took allotments at Salt River. The Red Moon boarding school at Hammon, Okla., has been discontinued and a day school established in its stead. It is purposed to transport pupils to and from the school daily if it is found that this is necessary and practicable. Authority has been obtained to lease with the option of purchasing nt $10,000, at any time within the next five years, 62 acres of land and |