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Show ,xU I thought a lethargic and very unsatisfactory condition, at least so far as improvements on the reservation were concerned I went to work with all the energy I posessed to change that state of affairs, and to place tlAe affairs of the entire reservation upon a basis of improvement and advancement. With what success, you are abundantly aware through my frequent letters and my annual reports. School houses have been built. A mill has been built. Orchards are planted and are suceessful all over both reserves. Bridges have been built. Agency houses have been greatly improved. The saw mill is turning oat dressed flooring, siding, finishing, plastering lath, shingles and all dimension lumber needed in general building, besides numberless minor improvements. All this has been done at considerable outlay of public funds, fully justified, I verily believe, and has laid the foundation for early and great progress on the part of these tribes. The question now is, how to best utilize these advantages. Tiie disposition of the Indian lias not materially cltanged. He is substantially the same dogged, stoical, self-willed element tfiat he was when these same fellows rebelled against and murdered that splendid man Meeker, and when their conduct was so unruly as to call for the establishment of a military |