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Show reduced. Tho timber is far up on the mountains and tho :;•". buildings to be constructed from it. are in the Lasin. ': : „ p ."' ••';;. The Boarding School is located at fshiia Socks, tho former White Rocks '! ' •..'.•• r School. 3cat of tho Agency, At present, tho iJchocl lias an enroll- •' f~ ment of 72 pupils, with fair prospects that 25 or1 30 Jtoro may .7 y be added to this number. That la a'.good proportion of tho Indian children iof t school age, from whom the School reasonably may be expected .to draw. P.ie institution is suffering from a lack of funds, the allotments even of §200.00 p-^o capita all being hypothecated by the salary list and the annual estimate of supplies, leaving no balance to meet ordinary noeessitias. The alloascico for the school is $9,530.00 a year from the general support funds and 53,710.00 a year from "Support of Confaduraiod r, ' . . Bands of Utea, Subsistence", the latter amount being used, exclusively, for the purchase of beef and flour. Tho School -.' j-.f. has under cultivation about thirty acres of land, upon T.hich is i yy -y , ..; .,;,: - r fPt' yft'f'}. raised,, for, the pupila, potatoes and othor vogetablea, and suf •, . PP ' •••;-: p ,. ,. ; ., , ... •••••%::• - •••Ay: y , fiaient hay and oats to supply the achool livestock. This stock ..' • i ' , ' . - '. .School consists of six horsos, ono bull, ei^ht cows, with somo calves, :. Faci lities. y fl '-, I and twenty-one hogs. It i3 necessary to purchase fc«d for the cows and .grain with which to faud tho hogs. Cn ihe School farm ia ro.isod'not cuch an amount of supplies |