Show INDIAN EDUCATION A good deal casdone was done by the fifty birst congress toward establishing indian schools throughout the country abo policy of the government seems to be that indians are to receive opportunities of le arcing with a view to making them more independent or self sustaining the liberal spirit that characterized the last congress is illustrated by the fact that for the temporary support of the tribe of indians in washington county utah and to enable them to become self support ing the purchase of improvements 1 on lands situate near the santa clara kiver on which to locate said indians the purchase of animals implements seeds clothing and other necessary articles for the erection of houses and for the temporary employment of a person to supervise these pur chases and their distribution to the She bits ten thousand dollars subscribed also that training i schools aro to bo established ia as t in pennsylvania michigan wisconsin minnesota north dakota south dakota colorado nevada oregon california arizona new mexico kansas and i s si ma these schools will be supported f t government and will accommodate moro than throe abou 0 t sexes in addition arf g lo 10 book learning tho girls will be taught all domestic duties and the boys will learn farming gardening dairying nut raising and all the commod trades of a community w tt good anai we shall watch its with in erest SAM ought however to have commenced it long ago as that mode of treatment would have proven cheaper than the perpetual wars we have been having the indians are folly capable of civilization we have had practical illustration of this hera in utah the trouble has been however that the cost of civilizing them bai cost more ihan c church can well bear the city makes improte ments so far as practicable home material should be employed officers should remember that one of the principles of our party is homa work tor home workmen while the council has under consideration the improvements to be made on the city jail it would not be a bad idea to ascertain it our home machine shops cannot furnish the necessary colls Eem embar that a thousand dollars or more expended for east ern made cells means that much money sent out of provo at a time when we need as much as possible circulating in oui midst so it would be cheaper to buy the home made work and retain the money in the community even if ita some higher in price IT is estimated that there are 14 horses on the farms and of the united worth on the average 67 apiece and valued pin all at next in money rank of the domestic animals come the oxen and other cattle exclusive of cows at and numbering cows are third with a valuation of the sheep the politicians are so solicitous are worth or about one third as much as the horses the hogs acworth ar worth and the the new Englan dates report no mules whatever while tennessee and missouri each have over ALL of our business men should feel exceedingly anxious about the completion of the B Y academy it js feared that unless some immediate steps are taken toward its erection some of the able professors now engaged in the institution may seek employment in quarters more congenial in their surroundings and offering better facilities for work if such should happen none could justly blame the teachers as there is certainly no pleasure about working in the old ware house where the school n ow convenes |