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Show AuA.r iitnply to thefollmt ,7 Education 4546-1901 Inc losuro (copy) C-A-'A Y- A, X±XA *<'A: mx\mtm, .of tiie $iixUxtmr-_ OFFICE OF INDIAN AFFAIRS - - """"!'• WASHINGTON, Feb. 5, 1901. Tho Honorable The Secretary cf the Interior, Sir: I have the honor to call your attention to the educational conditions of the Uinta and Uncompahgre Reservation in Utah. There are located on this reservation two schools as follows: the Ouray School with a capacity of 80 pupils, and the Uintah with a capacity of 100 pupils, The last quarterly reports of these schools show an average attendance at the Ouray School of 31 pupils and 56 at the Uintah. The matter of filling these schools to the limit of their.capacity has been the subject of considerable correspondence with the Agent in the hope that some definite steps might be taken by him to bring them up to their limit, there being on this reservation between 340 and 350 children of school age, of which number only 87 ?.re In schools having a capacity of 180. Your Inspector, Charles p. Healer, made an extended visit to this reservation and reported upon educational conditions. A report from this Office-, as called fear by you, based upon his report, was forwarded to the Department December 21, 1899. In that report Inspector ITesler was of opinion that the Indian police, though very incompetent, could by proper urging be made to fill these schools. While there,by an earnest effort.he did make a material increase in the schools, which increase has not been kept up. It was intimated by the Inspector that little reliance could bo placed upon the Indian police, |