174 THE CIVIL GOVERNMENT OF ALASKA 



cation in Alaska, with an assistant general agent and a superin- 

 tendent for each of the two educational districts. There are 

 twenty-three teachers and an enrollment of 1,267 pupils in 20 

 day-schools. These schools, with about 20 mission schools and 

 homes conducted by the various missionary organizations of the 

 United States, the most efficient of which is the industrial school 

 at Sitka, with a few schools of the Russo-Greek Church, sup- 

 ported by the Russian government, constitute the educational 

 facilities of Alaska. In Sitka, Juneau, and Douglas separate 

 schools are maintained for white and native children. During 

 1896 a school-house was erected near the Treadwell gold mine 

 on Douglas island, and in 1897 a new school-house was built at 

 Hoonah, Chichagof island. In September, 1896, a school was 

 opened at Circle City. 



The government maintains five herds of reindeer in the terri- 

 tory, namely, one at Cape Prince of Wales, numbering 253, one 

 at Cape Nome, numbering 218, one at the Swedish mission at 

 Golovin bay, and one at the St James' Episcopal station near 

 by, numbering together 206, and the central government herd 

 at the Teller station, numbering 423, making a total of 1,100. 



There is a prohibition against bringing liquor into the Terri- 

 tory, but it is evaded by smugglers from Canada and the United 

 States, and at every settlement the numerous saloons seen are 

 evidences of the extent of the smuggling operations. 



Annette island, in southeastern Alaska, has been set aside as 

 a reservation for the Metlakatla Indians, who emigrated from 

 British Columbia, and to whom the island was assigned by the 

 act of March 3, 1891. The Secretary of the Interior recommends 

 that citizenship be extended to them. 



The great necessity to commerce, in consequence of the rush 

 of gold-seekers to Alaska, of more exact information regarding 

 channels, etc., along the coast, has led the Coast and Geodetic 

 Survey to send out two parties for the purpose of surveying the 

 channels of entrance to the Yukon river and the navigability of 

 the Copper river. The head of Cook's inlet will also be exam- 

 ined. The Geological Survey has also sent men into the Alaska 

 field, for the purpose of examining and reporting upon the min- 

 eral resources of the Territory. 



A military reservation has been established by the Govern- 

 ment at St Michael, in Bering sea, embracing a territory within 

 a hundred miles' radius from the port of St Michael. It takes in 

 a portion of the Alaskan mainland, including the delta of the 



