Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-12-28
U. s. INDIAN SCHOOL.
Santa Feans Appeal to the Govern
ment to Maintain 1t as An
Industrial Training
Institution.
Specific Conditions in the Law and
Land TranSfers-Cart's Little
Water Scheme-Facts
of Interest.

What disposition the government is to
make of the U. S. Indian school at Santa
Fe is a sub ject of much interest to citi-
zens at this time. Some days ago the
Board of Trade named special COM
mittee to look into the status of this in
stitution as it exists at present. This
committee, composed of Messrs. E. Il.
Bartlett, G. H. Gildersleeve and Arthur
Boyle, is now engaged in preparing its
report, and special meeting of the board
will be held shortly to pass upon the
same prior to forwarding copies thereof
to the honorable secretary of the interior,
members of congress and officers of the
Indian bureau.
LAND AND WATER STATISTICS.
the committee it is gathered that the re-
port will prove of moro interest than
such documents ordinarily are. One
feature will consist of statistics bearing
upon the value of water for irrigation
purposes here and elsewhere throughout
the west, the cost of water in the Santa
Fe valley as compared with it's cost at
other points, and some estimate of its
productive capacity as measured by
actual results from the sale of fruits,
vegetables, forage, etc, such as the 100
acres of ground at the government Indian
school must be put into in order to insure
the prosperity of the institution. The
superior quality of the land and the
specific purposes to which it should be
put so as to teach the Indian youths the
most approved methods of irrigation,
horticulture, stock and poultry raising
farming, etc, will be elaborated upon.
The report will also set forth some
facts which, it is hoped, will persuade the
department not to convert this school
into mere normal training institution,
but to make of it great industrial edu-
cationsl institution to correspond at the
west with the work the Hampton school
is doing at the east. Investigation proves
that the law under which this school was
established and also the conditions upon
which the lands were donated by citizens
were specific in Their nature.
THE LAW
under which the school was established
in 1885 reads:
"For the purpose of establishing ar
industrial school for tho education of In
dian youths and the erection of the neces
| sary buildings thereof at Santa Fe, N. NJ
The greater area of land contributed
on this condition by citizens of Santa Fe
for Indian school purposes was given by
Messrs. G. Fl. Gildersleeve, Romulo Mar.
tinez, Clemente Ortiz and Andres Tapia
| The deeds of transfer recite on their face
! that: "On the promise and understand.
| ing of the said party of the second part
(the government to accept the tract Of
land conveyed as site for an industrial
school for the training of pueblo and
other Indians and to erect thereon, as
soon as may be practicable, suitable
buildings for such Indian school and
other Improvements as are or may be
necessary and proper to be thereon
erected for said uses, and to maintain
said Indian school upon said tract OF
land for said Indian school purposes
Now, the government, should it decide
not only fail to comply with the law but
would
VIOLATE EVERY CONDITION
and agreement under which residents of
the city were induced to donate these
lands.
The committees report will also, under
the head of water supply for domestic
| and irrigation purposes, present the
proposition of the Santa Fe Water q
improvement company to lay an eight
! inch main to the grounds SO as to bring
water direct from its new storage reservoir
upon the premises, and will touch upon
| the recommendations and
SUGGESTIONS OF s. M. CART,
lately deposed rs superintendent of the
institution, and which recommendation
and suggestions seem to be chiefly re
| sponsible for the existing muddled con
! dition of the schools affairs. 1t is al
| legged that ex-Supt. Cart had an object il
failing to comply with the Department.
orders and enter into a contract last sum
mer to have the water company lay it,
| pipes to the grounds
1t appears that he reported that the
water company was an irresponsible con
Germ, backed by adventures, and that the
water was filthy and unfit for use, anc
insufficient in quantity, and he recon-
mended and urged that the government
buy certain town lot IN Santa Fe, or
which there was alleged to be a spring
and he asked the government to
GIVE HIM FUNDS
to do the buying and authorize him to
lay pipes to conduct water from this
mythical spring, SO located upon this Ger.
tain town lot, to the Indian school
grounds. This scheme and Mr.. Carts
conduct in other matters will probably
receive pretty thorough ventilation in
the committees report. Col. Thomas M
Jones, special agent in charge of the
school at present, will be commended by
the report for the intelligence and zeal
he has displayed in trying to bring order
out of chaos, and the department will be
urged most earnestly to carry out the
original intention and put this institution
to the uses for which it was designed,
NAMELY the industrial TRIMMING Of India