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crew, comfortable accommodations have been provided for a number 

 of bureau employees. Space has also been provided for the trans- 

 portation of temporary native workmen engaged for duty at the 

 islands. The hold, which is provided with an intermediate deck, 

 will accommodate 160 tons of cargo. The main power plant is a 

 400-horsepower Union full Diesel engine, giving a normal cruising 

 speed of about 10 laiots. The vessel is provided throughout with 

 complete modern equipment. Fuel tanks give a normal cruising 

 radius of approximately 4,000 miles. 



ROADS 



St. Paul Island. — During the brief period between the time when 

 the ground became sufficiently thawed to permit operations and the 

 beginning of the sealing season, practically one-half mile of new road 

 was surfaced. This section of road extended from the Halfway 

 Point Bridge to the Halfway Point killing field, and made a total of 

 5/2 miles of scoria-surfaced road between the village and Northeast 

 Point. Later, a little over one mile of roadbed was made through 

 the sand along Big Lake. On account of the sand this section of the 

 Northeast Point road will have to be laid with plank tracks 

 before it can be used by motor trucks. Lumber sufficient to lay 

 tracks over about 3 miles of road across sand was sent to St. Paul 

 Island in the year and hauled to the vicinity of Big Lake. It is 

 planned to lay it in 1930. 



St. George Island. — Lumber for tracking a mile of roadway was 

 shipped to the island. The most of it was hauled to places where it 

 will be required on the North Rookery road. Considerable ditching 

 was undertaken on this road in the year. Road work was delayed 

 by the late departure of the supply vessel. 



BUILDINGS 



St. Paul Island. — A new building was constructed at Northeast 

 Point for use as a bunk house for natives. It is of frame construc- 

 tion on a concrete foundation and contains a kitchen, mess room, and 

 sleeping quarters for 50 persons. 



The work on two 3-room concrete houses for natives, foundations 

 for which had been poured in 1928, was carried far enough along to 

 permit completion in the winter of 1929-30. 



Concrete basement walls were poured for a hospital. Above the 

 basement the building will be of frame construction. A school 

 building of sufficient size to accommodate all the pupils was built. 

 In the past the children have been cared for in two buildings no 

 longer possible of repair. The building is of frame construction with 

 a concrete basement fitted for manual traijiing and the teaching of 

 domestic science. 



Other buildings constructed during the year were a coal house, 

 a cold storage, and a small frame building to house the electric refrig- 

 eration engine and compression equipment used in connection with 

 the employees' mess. 



The natives built a 4-room dwelling for the resident priest. Labor 

 and material for the structure were furnished by the natives, and the 

 building is the property of the natives' church. 



