REPORT -OF INDIAN SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT. 
 
Two appropriations were also made out of the unexpended balance 
of the school appropriation of the preceding year-one of $2,000 for 
the Flathead Industrial school for Boys and one of $1,000 for the Lin- 
coln Institution. These appropriations were for the purpose of paying 
each of the schools named for the maintenance and instruction of a 
number of pupils that were in each of the schools during the fiscal year

of 1884-85 in excess of the number allowed by contract with the Gov- 
ernment. 
NEW BUILDINGS AND PROPOSED NEW BUILDINGS. 
The new school-buildings at Salem, Oreg., will soon be completed, 
and when completed will accommodate 150 pupils. The contract to 
erect these buildings was approved August 12, last, and one of the stip-

ulations of the contract was that the buildings should be completed in 
150 days from that date. The pupils of the Forest Grove school are 
being removed to Salem as rapidly as accommodations can be provided 
for them. 
Plans and specifications for the training-school-building to be erected 
at Grand Junction, Colo., have been prepared, and the contract for the 
erection of the building has been awarded. The necessity for an Indian 
industrial-school located at this place has been seriously questioned, 
and is not apparent to many of the most intelligent of the people who 
are anxious that additional strength and effective vitality shall be given

to the Indian school system. 
Plans for the industrial-school-building to be erected at Santa F6 
have been decided upon; but bids for its construction have not been 
advertised for. The title of the Government to the land on which it is 
proposed to erect the building has not been perfected. The necessary, 
quantity of land has been donated to the Government as required by 
law, but the Attorney-General has not yet had an opportunity to ap- 
prove the deeds for this land. The contract to erect the proposed build-

ing cannot be awarded until the (leeds conveying these lands to the 
Government have been approved. 
ST. IGNATIUS MISSION SCHOOL, HAMPTON INSTITUTE, AND LINCOLN 
INSTITUTION. 
The appropriations made for support of Indian children at the St. 
Ignatius Mission-school, Montana, at the Hampton Normal and Agri- 
cultural Institute, Virginia, and at Lincoln [nstitution, Philadelphia, 
Pa., were wisely made, and appropriations as large as the current ap- 
propriations should be made in support of these schools for the fiscal 
year ending June 30, 1887. 
At the Lincoln Institution the Indian pupils are being taught useful 
trades, and are making encouraging progress in acquiring- a knowledge 
of the English language. The reputation of the school at Hampton, 
 
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