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Show water and for 412 hours there was no water at ail under pressure. The arrangement of the agency buildings is such that a fire could easily destroy the whole plant, unchecked,. Tie Government maintains its own coal mine and coal is delivered to.the agency at about ^7.59 a ton and of good heating, quality. Bach house Is furnished with stoves and a few with furnaces but tlae risk of fire would be materially lessened and an economy in the consumption of coal secured if a central heating plant a/ere installed. The superintendent reparas anaa -a new nape Rime is imperative need at the agency. .It the ...resent ne old Vicoaan pipe line leadinn from a ci:"'--=! = reservoir some 10,000 feet west from the agency, installed some 15 years ago, has now passed its usefulness because of the breaking of the iron bands that hold the sections together, causing much water to bs wasted. It has been necessary to repair about fifteen leaks, e-dch of which cost -55.32 per foot to repair. I recommend that this oi^e line be repaired a3 soon as possible. The sidewalks of the old post were pared, with gilsonite by the military authorities long ago and. arc in ar; y,od condition ,-.;; .-/hen f 1 ret neighborhood and shipped in large quantities to the Bast. Tbe__.uousing Question. Altogether the condition of the Utes is slowly |