Oregon Indian Agencies and Schools

Agencies and Schools listed below are what were listed for the state.  Slight indent after an Agency list all schools in that jurisdiction.

Fort McDermitt Day School, Oregon.
Post-office: McDermitt, Oregon
Telegraph address: Winnemucca, Nevada; Western Union, 85 miles from school; thence mail, 1 day.
Railroad station: Winnemucca, Nevada, on Southern Pacific Rwy.; thence stage to McDermitt, Oregon, 90 miles; thence hired team, 6 miles.

Grand Ronde. (See Siletz.)

Klamath School, Oregon
Post-office: Klamath Agency, Oregon
Telegraph address: Klamath Agency, Oregon; via Klamath Falls, Oregon; Western Union at Klamath Falls; telephone from Klamath Falls.
Railroad station: Klamath Falls, Oregon; thence stage daily, except Sunday, 35 miles.

Modoc Point day school.
Post-office: Klamath Agency, Oregon
Telegraph address: Reached from Klamath school.
Railroad station: Hired team from Klamath school, 9 miles.

Yainax day school.
Post-office: Bonanza, Oregon
Telegraph address: By telephone from Klamath school.
Railroad station: Hired team from Klamath school, 40 miles.

Roseburg School, Oregon
Post-office: Roseburg, Oregon
Telegraph address: Roseburg, Oregon
Railroad station: Roseburg, Oregon

Salem School, Oregon
Post-office: Chemawa, Oregon
Telegraph address: Salem, Oregon; Postal and Western Union, 5 miles from school; thence telephone.
Railroad station: Chemawa, Oregon, on Southern Pacific Rwy., also on Oregon Electric Rwy. (Chemawa is 5 miles north of Salem and 47 miles south of Portland.)

Siletz School, Oregon
Post-office: Siletz, Oregon Telegraph address: Toledo, Oregon; Western Union, 9 miles from school; thence telephone.
Railroad station: Toledo, Oregon, on Corvallis and Eastern Rwy.; thence stage, 9 miles.

Upper Farm day school.
Post-office: Siletz, Oregon
Telegraph address: Same as Siletz school.
Railroad station: Same as Siletz school.

Umatilla School, Oregon
Post-office: Pendleton, Oregon
Telegraph address: Pendleton, Oregon; Western Union, 5½ miles from school; thence telephone.
Railroad station: Pendleton, Oregon, on Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company’s Rwy., and Washington and Columbia River Rwy.; thence 5½ miles.

St. Andrew’s mission school.
Post-office: Pendleton, Oregon
Telegraph address: Pendleton, Oregon; Western Union, 10 miles from school; thence mail.
Railroad station: Same as for Umatilla school; distance, 10 miles.

Warm Springs School, Oregon
Post-office: Warm Spring, Oregon
Telegraph address: The Dalles, Oregon; Western Union, 75 miles from school; thence telephone.
Railroad station: Shaniko, Oregon, on Columbia Southern Rwy.; thence daily stage to Madras, 45 miles; thence stage or hired team, 15 miles.

Simnasho day school.
Post-office: Simnasho, Oregon
Telegraph address: The Dalles, Oregon; Western Union, 55 miles from school; thence telephone.
Railroad station: The Dalles, Oregon, on Oregon Railway and Navigation Co. a Rwy., or Dufur, Oregon, on Great Southern Rwy.; thence daily stage to Wapinitia, Oregon, from The Dalles, 45 miles; from Dufur, 30 miles. Hired team to Simnasho, 12 miles; distance from agency to Simnasho, 20 miles.


Topics:
History, Schools,

Collection:
Department Of The Interior. Routes To Indian Agencies And Schools, Office Of Indian Affairs, Corrected To April 1, 1910. Washington: Government Printing Office. 1910.

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