Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-27
Government Will Build New
One on Reservation.
MAJOR LOGAN RETURNS
His Trip to Washington In Behalf of
Indians Was Entirely Sue
ceSSful.

Major w. r. Logan, agent of the
Blackfeet Indian reservation, returned
to his home in Helena yesterday from
Washington, where he went early in
the month to confer with the commits
sioner upon improvements proposed for
his reservation, says the Helena Indie
pendent. His trip was eminently sue
cessful, as he secured the promise Of
all that he had hoped for. The most
important of the improvements pro-
posed is a boarding school. which the
government will build his summer.
Architects have almost completed plans
for the building, which will be built Of
stone n brick. and will cost $67, 900.
Former estimates for the Indians om the
Blackfeet reservation involved the ex-
penditure of from $3.50, 900 to $175, 900 an
nually, but Major Logan has reduced the
estimate to $S5,000. He asked that the
difference between his estimate and for
mer estimates be expended in cattle for
the Indians, and that is to be done.
There are 1900 Piegans and Blackfeet
Indians on the reservation, and Major
Logan says they are progressing as rap
idly as my indian of the west.
THE schools that are to be built and
maintained by the government will be Of
NAASOAN liz W lax llluldllS vi ludL res.
ervation," said Major Logan last even
ing at the Montana club. ''The board
Ing school is the most important of the
schools proposed, but the department ex-
poets to maintain aside from it five or
SIX lesser schools on the reservations
Where they Will do the most good. The
boarding school will be built at Cutbank.
ON the Great Northern, about six miles
from he present agency, which is To-
caued at Browning. I saw some of the
plans for the building in Washington.
ANA was impressed with the idea that it
VIII De a handsome building when com
pieted. A. $. Hovey of Helena has com
unnlng the lines for the sewer and nine
!IIles ana grade. Work on the new build
lhs, was led to believe, would he com
smenc at an early day.
!ne small schools will be built in the
ara need ind1an communities where tney
pond to the schools of our country die
er.cls. The Indians are living in small
communities upon the various streams
OF the reservation, and by giving each
~ Eene more important communities a
scnool practically all of the children with
them as much as possible, and for tha,
reason a boarding school is not nonnia ;
on a reservation. If the department
totlows its usual plan in maintaining
t tn small schools, it will pay attention
Indian boys will be taught the first prin-
ciples Of farming and stock raising
THESE schools will be the feeders for the
large boarding school at Cutbank.
These schools will have a great inf]u-
ence toward advancing the Indians. Thev
are already progressing rapidly. I be-
lieve they are further advanced than
n other tribal Indians in. Montana
They have good homes, and many OF
them are well-to-do and appreciate the
advantages Of industry and thrift. The
Indians are paying more attention now
have a country that is particularly wei
adapted to the industry, and gradually
they are beginning to appreciate what
they can do in that line. Last yea,
the ndian on the Blackfeet reserva.
ton sold $4,000 worth of cattle in the