Whoever exercises oversight of this financial work in Alaska will doubtless find that it is still desirable to utilize the services of the teachers in the native schools to assist in keeping records of accounts of the native cooperative stores. 3. A transfer of the hospitals and their staffs to another representative of the department and the development of a policy which will tend to coordinate the health work for the natives with the health work for the whites under the health service of the Territorial Government. If this service should remain in the Bureau of Education, the Chief of the Alaska Division insists that there be a general supervisor for the medical activities. Alaska is a land of such sparse population and vast area that it seems unwise to develop two overhead organizations, one Federal and one Territorial. Your commissioner believes that in a short time the Territorial government should perform all of this service, receiving subsidies for care administered to nontaxpaying natives. The nurses who minister to the needs of the children should remain under the direction of those responsible for the administration. of the schools, much after the custom prevailing in American cities. 4. A gradual transfer of the actual management of the schools for the natives to other agencies. The Bureau of Education should develop, or at least approve, the course of study to be followed; should set the standards for teachers and should certificate them; and should study and determine the best methods of teaching of the natives. In all towns and cities where schools are maintained by the Territory for the white children and by the Federal Government for the natives a program of consolidation should be instituted designed to bring both schools under one management. Your commissioner would recommend the development of a program of subsidies whereby the Territorial school in a given community would be reimbursed by the Federal Government for the education of the children of all nontaxpaying natives. Doubtless the management of the schools in strictly native villages and in the far-flung sections of the west and north coasts will remain a Federal responsibility for many years. If the Bureau of Education is to continue with any administrative authority, this is its legitimate field. Regardless of the authority, administering native education there should be a clearcut separation of interests in our so-called industrial schools. Up to the present time these schools have been primarily orphanages for young children rather than industrial schools for adolescents. In the future these schools should be real centers in secondaryschool training, especially of vocational types, for the native children living over large areas of Alaska. 5. Transfer of the operation of the U. S. S. Boxer to the commissioner of the department in Alaska. The northbound voyages of this vessel are concerned very largely with supplies for existing schools and hospitals and materials with which to build new schools and hospitals or repair old ones. On the voyage south the Boxer frequently brings out reindeer carcasses for natives. It can still render service for the schools if operated by the department. Respect fully submitted. WM. JOHN COOPER, Commissioner. The SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR. Investigations of opportunities for planned group settlement in the South. Economic and engineering operations... Yuma project, Arizona-California_ Grand Valley project, Colorado...-- 37 38 39 Tables... Washington____ Yakima project extensions_. Wyoming Alcova-Casper project. 1. Consolidated financial statement, June 30, 1929. 2. Available funds, expenditures, and balances, fiscal year 1929- 4. Consolidated statement, by projects, of construction cost of irri- 5. Consolidated statement, by projects, of operation and main- 6. Consolidated statement, by projects, of operation and main- 7. Accounts receivable, construction water-right charges (including 44 8. Accounts receivable, operation and maintenance charges (after 9. Accounts receivable, rentals of irrigation water... 10. Voucher transactions, all funds, and net investment as of June 30, 1929. 47 11-14. Engineering data for projects on completion....... 47 11. Reservoirs___ 47 12. Storage dams__ 49 13. Diversion dams_. 14. Irrigable area_ 15. Summary of construction results to June 30, 1929. 16. Power plants operated on Bureau of Reclamation projects during fiscal year 1928-29____ 17. Pumping plants operated on Bureau of Reclamation projects during fiscal year 1928-29_. 18. Estimate of seepage and summary of drainage work to June 30, 1929___. 19. Settlement and economic data, 1928... 20. Irrigation and crop results, Government reclamation projects, 1928_ 21. Summary of crop results on reclamation projects in 1928__ 24. Carload shipments to and from Federal irrigation projects in 1928_ 25. Projects turned over and to be turned over to water users' organizations for operation and maintenance. - |