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At the scoria deposit, near Ice House Lake, sand and vegetation 
was cleared from an area large enough to make available sufficient 
scoria to provide for road requirements for 1927. 
St. George Island.—Considerable work was done on a tractor road 
to North rookery. It is planned to extend the road later to Staraya 
Artil rookery. When completed the road will assist in the short- 
ening of seal drives. 
NEW BUILDINGS AND OTHER IMPROVEMENTS 
ST. PAUL ISLAND 
Ten of the twelve dwellings for the use of natives on St. Paul 
that were begun in 1925 were fully completed and ready for occu- 

Fig. 13.—New concrete residence for white employees, St. Paul Island 
pancy in May, 1926. | Two other dwellings, for which the founda- 
tions were completed in 1925, and eight additional new ones were 
brought to the point where they could be completed in the winter 
of 1926-27. The foundations of two more were poured in 1926, 
in order that work might proceed on them early in 1927, regardless 
of whether or not the ground was still frozen. All these buildings 
are for the use of natives and are of concrete construction. 
The laundry building and the meat house for the white employees 
of the station, having reached a point where repairs were no longer 
economical, were torn down and replaced by two new buildings. 
Installation of new equipment was deferred until the winter of 
1926-27. The laundry is to be provided with a hot-water boiler, 
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