Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-03-12
frame-at the agency to cost $4,000
"Other minor improvements will ag'
gregate at least $4,000

franle---at the agency to cost $4,000.
Other minor Improvements will ag'
gregate at least $4,000
Therefore about $4,000 will be
spent this year in Improvements. A
good deal of this money will go to the
Indians, as many Of them will be
employed as carpenters and laborers.
After the allotment Of the land
has been completed and when money
is received from the sale of the ma.
tured timber on the reservation, all
the adult Indians who care to, are to
be supplied with sheep and started
in the industry of raising the tleecy
animals. They are natural herders
know the business well and 1t is be.
lieyed that many Of them will engage
In 1t and become we'll to do.
irrigation Systems.
There are several reservoirs now
on the reservation which have been
constructed recently. In these food
waters have been caught and con
served and there Is enough water on
hand now to irrigate for the season
about 1900 acres. This land Is valu
able and contains good agricultural
soil Most of it, however, is still in
a wild state and will have to be
cleared and made fit for cultivation
and irrigation. The irrigation ditche!
will also have to be extended and this
will take some time.
"One hundred and forty Indians o
| school age attend the agency schoo
now. There are about thirty employe!
at the agency. In addition there arr
ten policemen all of them Indians. 4
number of the Indians are working
in the saw mills In the vicinity Of th'
reservation while others are working
as section men on the Denver & Rit
Grande Railroad. ! expect that | will
be able to send quite number thi
summer to the Colorado beet field
where they will work several month";
and then return home. They max,
good laborers and are docle an,
quiet OF course, they must hav
supervision and under the right kin,
of supervision, they do very well an
earn their wages to the fullest extent
Upon the whole | am glad to say tha
the improvement in every respect |
quite marked and 1t looks as If thi
would continue right along"
An Excellent Official.
Superintendent Johnson has bee
connected with the Indian service TO
eleven years; his first position wa
as industrial teacher at Shawnee, Oh
lahoma; thereafter he was promote
to dlsciplinaran at the Omah
agency in Nebraska Giving entir
satisfaction in that position he re
ceived another promotion of superir
tendent of shops at the Fort Lewis
Colorado, Indian school In du
course of time another promotion fol
lowed to superintendent and ACTIN
agent of Ottoe, Oklahoma. Theme
he was sent to his present position
which he has filed very satisfactorily
lably and efficiently not only to hi
superior officers, but also to the In
dams, and to the people living in tn
sections close to the reservation. B
tact and diplomacy he has succeeds
In establishing the friendliest rela
tions between the surrounding Sc
tiers and citizens of towns and II
dians, and peace and quiet have bee
the order of the day under his &C
ministration. B. C. Hernandez, e,
sheriff of Rio Arriba County, a yer
prominent and reliable citizen ant
who one might say has grown up wit
the Indians has informed a represer
tative of the New Mexican that tn
condition of the Jicarilla Apaches noN
Is better than at any time in the MI
tory of his knowledge of them an
he has known them intimately an
well since his boyhood and over thil
ty years.
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