A. TEACHERS FOR THE SCHOOL AT WAINWRIGHT AND THEIR FUTURE NEIGHBORS, LEAVING THE U. S. S. "BEAR."

B. UNITED STATES MAIL CARRIER, UPPER YUKON DISTRICT. Except during the season of open navigation in midsummer, mail for the schools in the interior reaches them over frozen trails.

gested at the fair that a teacher could get his pupils to school at any hour he saw fit, if he offered an incentive. Mr. Hibbs, of Klawock, organized a school band as a result of inspiration received at the fair, and had it meet from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m., and the boys were all on time.

These boys had never played any instrument, but by the end of the year he had trained them so well that they played an orchestra of 16 pieces. This shows that in order to increase the 7 per cent attendance in the grades from the fourth up, we must offer an additional inducement, and if the schools can take the bands of the towns it will greatly assist.

Not only is there the benefit to the schools of such an organization, but it is a physical development to the individual as well. We must start a campaign to create a stronger body for the natives. It is evident to any Alaskan that natives as a race are weaker and have less physical endurance than they had 30 years ago. One reason is that they have not learned the white children's system of play. Confined too closely in the schoolroom without sufficient outside exercise many of the weak-chested boys and girls decline in health.

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The industrial development of Metlakatla continues with gratifying success. old sawmill that was supposed to be absolutely beyond use, with an outlay of only $123.07 for repairs, has cut and sold $2,001.48 worth of lumber. The water line is extended throughout the town and into the school building. The new cannery is being built with lumber cut at the local mill, and native workmen are furnishing the labor. The town is well united in its aims for progress, and we are all much encouraged over the prospect for an industrial and educational center at Metlakatla.

With a trade school established in Metlakatla, also a weekly school publication, with local correspondents in each of the 14 towns of the district furnishing reports of local events, a brief account of current events, and with articles of instruction contained in each weekly issue, I see a most valuable field for intensive instruction. I would have the publication sent into every Indian home in Southeast Alaska, and I am certain that since ours is the age of the written rather than the spoken word, we would give more real instruction to the 3,335 people living in the district than is possible in any other way.

The Metlakatla Commercial Co., which came into existence last year, has built a big store on a strategic corner in the town. Its first few months of business were most discouraging. It now has a paid up capital stock of more than $7,000.

The lumber business at Hydaburg has also been considerably larger this year than ever before. The mill there shows a sale of $4, 029.37 in lumber. The lumber market in Seattle has raised the prices so high that the canneries are demanding Alaska lumber now, while only two years ago they could get Oregon fir delivered at the canneries cheaper than the Alaska mills could furnish.

A new incentive has come to Klawock in getting an additional section of the town surveyed and a post office established in the native town. This has been badly needed during the past years.

The towns of Hoonah and Kake, which have been more steeped in tribal customs than most of the other towns of the district, are manifesting a worthy pride. They have cooperated and plan to join the Forest Service in surveying the towns and building roads. Both are almost a mile from their canneries, and both have agreed to furnish the labor to build the proposed roadways if the Forest Service would furnish the material. Tribal homes along the water front are customary in Kake and Hoonah. There are no lots surveyed behind these shore lines, consequently the people, of necessity, are forced to live in houses consisting of one big room, in which are some eight beds in full view of all in the room. The chief of the Forest Service, Mr. Weigle, of Ketchikan, whose most valuable assistance to our work I wish to acknowledge, has 39799-18-3