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in the interest of a few Indians and their friends.  The better class get little if anything from the shops:  the Kamiah, Meadow Creek and South [[?Fork]] settlements nothing save possibly here or there one.  The shops are not conducted on a business basis, so that Indian employees do not learn how to conduct business to [[?supplement]] of the cost of material, or cost of labor:  they work so many hours, or go fishing and draw their pay all the the same.  This manner of doing work is in the [[?air]] at an Agency and the traditions of this Agency reek with dishonesty, the Indians know it and have been and are demoralized by it. I am aware that the Agency cannot be abolished but I am sure that the shops [[?can]] be transferred to this school.  The boys can be trained to do work on a business basis and what work need to be done for the tribe, can be done in the practical lessons in work given the apprentices and [[?]] not under a competent mechanic.  The mill should be utilized the same way the apprentices then taught how to run it, and to care for the machinery, so that they can find work in a mill some where, even if they can't run store on the reservation.  As it is the Indians learn nothing

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