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Show gooc." corafotable houses, and given the stipulated allotment allow-ence of agricultural land. Those homesteads are all fenced with cedar posts and barbed wire in a manner that.will last forty years the fences running on section lines as per recorded official survey. Water^. ditches and laterals have been provided so that these farms are amply supplied with water for irrigation. On eighteen o'f these, good crops were harvested last season, and on each from five to fotty acres were seeded to Lucerne which will supply hay next season; all these families are living in the houses provided for them and are enjoying comfortably equipped homes to which they are constantly in their own way adding Improvements. For the benefit of these Indians a fine school plant has been established, it is located three miles above the point where the Uintah & Duchesne meet, comprises three two story brick buildings, one; being used for study and recitations, one for boys, dormitory, the other for girls' dormitory, general mess-hall and quarters for female industri.; 1 teachers. Tin. other building:: are a two story frame Laundry, a store house for property, a play JIOUSO or gymnasium for the boys, a stable for animals, end a fine residence for the Agency physician. One yAfHyAAiF half mile from the school the Episcopal denomination has established a mission, and have erected and completed to the finish a beautiful Chapel,(thatwould be so-called in any rural district) and a neat cottage for the resident missionary. The missionary people are doing good work there and |