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St. George Island. — -Aside from the getting out of some material for 

 surfacing, road work was not continued this year. 



NEW BUILDINGS AND OTHER IMPROVEMENTS 



St. Paul hland. — The presence of ice about the island, which made 

 it impossible to land temporary workmen until late in the spring, also 

 retarded work on new buildings as well as on roads. 



Fourteen concrete houses, includmg two for which foundations were 

 poured in 1926, were under construction and sufficient work was done 

 on them to make possible their completion in the winter of 1927-28. 

 These houses are for the use of the natives. Two are 5-room and 

 twelve are 4-room buildmgs. A corral for livestock was built, and 

 Ice House Lake, which supplies water for the village, was cleaned. 

 The filter in the lake was rebuilt. 



St. George Island. — One 4-room and three 5-room houses for the use 

 of natives were built. These buildings are of wood construction. 

 The limited supply of sand and gravel makes it impracticable to 

 construct any considerable number of concrete buildings on this 

 island. An addition was built to the schoolhouse, to accommodate 

 the junior school. An addition was also made to the garage. The 

 dwelling for white employees and the warehouse, which were begun 

 in 1926, were completed. The warehouse contains a Frigidaire 

 installation. 



BY-PRODUCTS PLANT 



Xo by-products were prepared at the plant on St. Paul Island in 

 1927. Consideration is being given to the installation of modern 

 machinery in the plant with the view of operating with greater effi- 

 ciency than has been possible in the past. The present equipment was 

 purchased and installed in 1918 under war-time conditions and much 

 of it is now unsatisfactory. The construction of new and better 

 roads will pennit the dehvery of seal carcasses from kiUing grounds 

 not before within reach of the plant's field of operations. 



NATIVES 



The annual census, taken as of December 31, 1927, showed 189 

 native residents on St. Paul Island, and in addition 4 St. Paul Island 

 natives were temporarily residing on St. George Island, 4 at the 

 Salem Indian School, Chemawa, Oreg., and 18 at various places, 

 making a total of 215 accredited to St. JPaul Island. On St. George 

 Island there were 148 native residents, of whom 5 were temporary 

 (1 from Unalaska and 4 from St. Paul Island), leaving 143 accredited 

 to St. George. The total number accredited to both islands was 358. 

 During the year there were 11 births and 7 deaths on St. Paul Island 

 and 3 births and 2 deaths on St. George Island. 



