Our mill needs repairing, and some new buildings put up for agent and employes. We also need a new barn, but these we hope to secure in the near future. I have said from the first that lumber was the great desideratum. Most of the exceptions are in the police force. The teachers I have changed.
Educational work is the great object now.
After getting our school- buildings and getting them furnished we feel that this work is paramount to all other work, and we have planned to make this year tell on this line. We have taken new land for the school gardens. Some changes in the employes, and the help given us by the Department, will place us on better footing for the future than in the past, and we shall try to merit your approbation. The work of this year, comparatively speaking, has been preparatory. Up to this time there have been no children gone from this agency to the Forest Grove training school, but I have been in correspondence with the superintendent, and I expect him here in a few days to take several of them to that institution, where they can have better advantages in industrial training.