Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1871 [PAGE 107]

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Students labor.. Lumber for benches and engine bed Grindstone and heater Iron work for lathes and saws Costof well Piping, belting, etc Total cost * . $243 08 12 56 12 90 100 00 50 00 23 96 $1,637 22

The present estimated value of shop, machinery and appliances which have been added, amounts to $2,480 26. The estimated value of the materials, models, and unfinished work in shop, the last comprising two thermometer graduation machines, a chronograph, a lawn mower, and several other machines, amounts to $440. After fitting up the shop, the labor of the department was directed chiefly to the manufacture of models and apparatus for the University itself, and in some cases for other parties. It also gave considerable aid to other departments, making and repairing tools and machinery for the gardens and farms, putting up steam heating apparatus for main building, and making and putting up hot water heating apparatus in the green house. The apparatus and models made for the University cabinet amount to $425 16. Besides this work, the shop has credits upon various bills for different persons and departments amounting to $899 38. The total credits are $3,644 80. The total amount paid for machinery and materials of all kinds, up to March 1st, 1871, is $2,364 62.

Amount appropriated to department Credit over and above cost Appropriation minus profits $2,400 00 1,280 18 $1,119 82

(Signed,)

S. W. K O B I N S O N .

Mr. Pearson, as chairman of the Committee on Nominations, reported back as follows: Your special Committee on the nomination of Standing Committees would respectfully report the following Committees : Executive.—Eegent, J. H. Pickrell, A. M. Brown, E. Cobb, Goltra, Lawrence, Griggs, Pearson, Cunningham. Agricultural.—Pickrell, Blackburn, Brown of Sangamon, Harrington and Scott. Horticultural.—A. M. Brown, Pullen, Galusha, Wright and Edwards. Finance.—Cobb, Hayes, Griggs, Bowen and Scroggs.