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As to schools, your plan of a good "boarding" school under a bonded Supt. is just what is needed.  All its teachers to be trained.  The shops on this res. ought to be put on a business basis, as far as work for the Indians is concerned, and run in a business manner, by educated Indians and apprentices taken from the schools.  The evil of the gratuitous service of shops is great.  The vicious and idle & those who fawn about the Agent are the ones who get the most out of the shops.  The thrifty Indian seldom gets help.  There are some fairly good mechanics here, but as you know no native was employed until Special Agt. Hart came & took charge.  There are some Indians who, if they had a little more training would be able to do any thing that might be needed.  I think it would be an excellent plan if a few of these men were sent away for a term or two in order that they might be able to run the mills in a competant manner, and repair the machines etc. For The distances from one settlement to another are very great, and it is almost impossible to gather all the children at our boarding school.  It has seemed to me that the influence of a day school here at Kamiah would be good, and that it would serve a good purpose in many ways.