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of July, each year, you or your successor in office make out an annual report of the 

 progress of the herd, giving the numbers born, dying, or killed; the number and 

 character of the herders and apprentices; what steps are being taken and with what 

 success to get your people to take them up; the condition of private herds, if any, 

 anions; your people; what experiments you have made toward improved methods 

 of harnessing, milking, and handling the deer, together with the results of the same, 

 and such other information as may seem to you of general interest. 



This annual report will be mailed to the " General Agent of Education in Alaska, 

 United States Bureau of Education, Washington, D. C" 

 Wishing you great success, I remain, 



Yours truly, Sheldon Jackson, 



(lateral Agent, etc. 

 Mr. W. T. Lopp, 



Superintendent of the American Missionary Association Mission, 



Caj)e Prince of Wales, Alaska. 



Teller Reindeer Station, 



Port Clarence, September 3, 1S94. 



Sir: In accordance with your instructions to erect a schoolhouse from logs, a 

 crew of eight men were sent up the lagoon west of the station after drift logs. 

 After being away four days they returned without logs and reported that it was 

 impossible to get them, as the lagoon could not be used for rafting because the 

 timber lay on the outside of the sand bank between the lagoon and sea; that the bank 

 was too wide for the logs to be carried across, and that they could not take them on 

 the outside on account of the surf. A.11 this was thought to be nothing else than 

 the result of not having a white man along to boss the work, and as there is no 

 assistant at the station that can be sent out, I went myself with a crew of six men 

 and got 100 logs. The station was, meanwhile, left in Mr. Brevig's care. As school 

 was to begin on the 1st of September, it was impossible to build a schoolhouse and 

 have it ready in time. We therefore fixed up the center room or hall in the main 

 building lor school, which began to-day. 



In the past two weeks the Laplanders have milked about 50 cows of the herd 

 every day, but as the deer have not been used to it and are very wild, we will have 

 to stop milking for a few days, as a number of the deer already have sore teats. We 

 will continue as soon as the deer are all right again. A week ago to-day four men 

 were sent up to the lakes fishing, and one Laplander went along exploring. They 

 have not, returned yet. If winter sets in soon as expected we will be in a bad fix, 

 as we have no place ready for the herders. Last winter they were kept iu the back 

 building or lean-to, but as you know the lean-to now is used as storehouse and 

 kitchen for Mr. Brevig and a trading room, we will have no place to keep the 

 herders. I will put all hands to work on a log house for the herdeis, only leaving 

 six men with the herd. I hope we will get it ready in about three weeks, and if it 

 should be necessary the school cau be kept where it is the first part of the winter. 



Yours, respectfully, 



Wm. A. Kjellmann. 

 Dr. Sheldon Jackson, 



Revenue Steamer Bear. 



Teller Reindeer Station, 



Port Clarence, September 5, 1894. 

 Dear Sir: I herewith send you one box containing reindeer moss and grass, 

 properly labeled, and one can of reindeer cheese made at the station. I do not know 

 whether the cheese will keep canned up that way. In Laplaud it is always dried 

 and brought to the market iu that state. 



