8               REPORTS OF AGENTS IN         CALIFORNIA. 
MISSION AGENCY, 
San Bernardino, Cal., September 30, 1885. 
SIR: I have the honor to submit my second annual report. The annual statistics

are inclosed herewith. 
In view of the numerous reserves of this agency, and their distances from
this office, 
the time of forwarding this report was extended by your letter dated the
27th ultimo, 
to this date, to prepare as full a census as was practicable under the circumstances.

With the limited number of employ6s, but since the 27th ultimo, with some
aid 
from the new employd (the additional farmer), an actual enumeration, including
names, 
ages, and relationship, was made of the larger villages, including the eight
villages 
where the agency day-schools are established, the remainder being necessarily
esti- 
mated. The result is as follows: Whole number, 3,070; males over 18 years
of age, 
876 ; females over 14 years of age, 1,056 ; school children between 6 and
16 years of 
age, 770. 
The whole number divided into tribes thus: Serranos, 390; Coahuillas, 793;
San 
Luis Reys, 1,142; Dieguenos, 745. 
THEIR LOCATION. 
Much the larger number (over two-thirds) live in the very large area comprising

the county of San Diego, most of the remainder in the still larger county
of San 
Bernardino, and a few in the county of Los Angeles. They gen&rally live
in villages 
and settlements, of which they have thirty-two, counting from the largest,
having a 
population of 236 and the smallest 18. There are living in this county (San
Bernar- 
dino) over 100 Chimehuevas and other Indians who do not live under any agency.

The actual enumeration made this year would indicate a total increase of
the Mis- 
sion Indians of about 200 since 1880, yet their comparatively small number
of chil- 
dren indicates a very decided decrease. It seems probable that the enumeration
made 
for 1880 did not include all the adult Indians in the larger villages who
were enumer- 
ated this year. Besides, there are included in this enumeration by name,
age, &c., 97 
Mission Indians, living in and near the City of San Diego, who it appears
were not enu- 
merated before, on the supposition that they did not belong to this agency,
as nearly 
all of them were born in Mexico (in Lower California). But as I found upon
careful 
inquiry that the older ones were living in California at the time and since
the treaty 
of 1848, that they were Mission Indians of the tribe called " Diegueno,"
that their 
children were born in California, and that they claimed to be Indians of
this agency, 
they were enumerated accordingly. 
EDUCATION. 
Of all the Mission Indians, about 250 can read English, of which 100 learned
in the 
last year, yet, owing to their great timidity in practicing the speaking
of English, 
there are scarcely 100 of the total number who can or do speak English enough
for 
ordinary intercourse, yet a much greater number understand the English they
hear 
spoken by others. Very few of them speak only Indian, and nearly all speak
Spanish. 
Two additional schools were commenced at the beginning of the calendar year.

Eight day-schools have since then been in operation, at which there was good
average 
attendance. 
One contract boarding-school was begun during the year (at Anaheim), with
but 
small attendance--five to six, all girls; no provision having been made there
for boys. 
As directed, in answer to my correspondende, I furnished estimates and plans
for an 
Indian boarding-school proposed to be erected near Banning, on the Protrero
reserve, 
but as authority has not yet been granted, as requested, it was not built.
The failure 
of the contract boarding-school at Anaheim, following the failure of a similar
school 
at San Diego the preceding year, justifies the renewal of the recommendation,
that 
the boarding-schools, as well as the day-schools, so far as the Mission Indians
are 
concerned (however it may be elsewhere), should be conducted on or near their
re- 
serves, where the Indian children will feel to be at home, although not lodging
and 
boarding with their parents. If they left the school situated on the reserve
they 
could be promptly returned. Otherwise they should be sent to those training-schools

so distant that they would not likely attempt to run away unless their parents
freely 
consented. 
The school statistics (herewith) show the average attendance at the eight
day- 
schools to be very good, ranging from 15 to 48 for the year and an average
attendance 
for all of 23J. 
MISSIONARY WORK. 
There has been nothing in this respect aside from what has been done by the
eight 
teachers and occasional religious services by the Catholic church, with which
many 
of these Indians are connected.