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 Diary of Rev. George Gary 83 managed by Mr Beers. He also carries on a blacksmith- ing business for the mission. Thurs. 6. Today we go up the river about ten miles further, to the place where our Indian manual labor school is established. This is considered an important point in our Mission. We have in this immediate vicin- ity this Indian School, parsonage in which D. Leslie lives, and our milling establishment, both grist and saw mills, and claims to sixteen sections of land. Surely a place of high hopes and large investments and I suppose also a place of great expense annually. I am satisfied I have a burden to meet here which as yet I am unable to foresee how I shall dispose of. The saw and grist mills can be sold or disposed of in some way I presume, without essentially affecting the Mission, but this school has in the hopes of its immediate friends promised much for the benefit and salvation of the Indians of this land. I call a council of the Brethern present in reference to this school. We have in council D. Leslie, G. Hines, I. L. Babcock, A. Beers, J. L. Parish, H. Campbell and W. W. Raymond. In this interview it appears as the unani- mous opinion of all present, that this school costs the Mission more than all the other operations of the Mission in this land. Salary and traveling expenses of H. Campbell, Sup't of said school $1000 Teacher and board of said teacher 590 Female teacher and Board 204 Support of James Bates, a kind of manager, salary and board 450 Clothing and boarding say thirty Indian Children 3432 Expense of transportation of supplies from the Falls 150 Medicine from the physicians 50 Clothing and boarding three young men, as help said to be indispensably necessary 468 $6334