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Show I. a. 1. <i DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, , SUBJECT:- s V. Relative to UNITED STATES INDIAN SERVICE, "^Y situation at the Uintah & Ouray Agency, A' Uintah School. Whiterocks, Utah, ,-^__«-~ Hov. 2, 1908. /T, % \ / g- § c« Commissioner of Indian Affairs, J rrHor'S § K h S n Washington, D. C. jic iui- .co^ c.v> : Sir:- X ! &/ Replying to your communication of the 24th ultimo, relative to the situation at the Uintah School with respect to its status and relationship to the Episcopal Mission, it seems to have been the understanding of Bishop Spalding that the actual operation of a Mission School with a full corps of employees was desired by the Depart-rs ment before taking these employees into the Civil Service Commission. In order that such a school could be opened so as to take in the full number of school children, the Coverern-ment plant at the Uintah Boarding School had to be used. Furthermore, the Episcopal Mission, while they had the full staff of employees, had no other facilities for operating the school and 3hould they not have been able to take over tho Gov.r:_m'.nt plnnt, tho oHtnbll-.hn.i.nt of a Mianlon School could only have been constructive. Therefore, as soon as the Episcopal Mission entered the Uintah School my responsibility to the Government for the plant, its stock and supplies, became involved, and I saw no other way than to rec- \ |
