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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1870
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60 No. Date. To whom. For what- Amount. $125 00 125 00 1(0 00 83 33 83 33 83 33 75 00 3T 00 33 33 57 00 83 33 11 80 31 58 11 20 19 70 360 00 75 95 271 17 136 55 510 Feb. 25.... T . J , Burrill Salary for February . 511 " 25.... S. W. Shattack 512 " 25.... E. Snyder 513 " 25.... Jas. Ballangee 5U " 25.... Henry Douglas 515 " 25.... J. S. Searfoss ... 516 " 25 ... Thos. Franks 517 " 25.... Pat. Lamb 518 " 25.... R. B. Warder 3 cars of coal 519 " 25.... Union Coal Company Salary for February 520 u 25... H. K. Vickroy 521 " 26.... Jared Teeple Funeral expenses, L. C. Warner.. Machh ery 522 " 26.... D. M. Ford 523 March 1... Champaign Gas Company.. Gas bill for University, February . Shafting, etc 524 " 4.... Jones &> Laughlin Boiler, tmoke pipe and pump.. 525 u 4.... W. McGregor Machinery and tools 526 4t 4.... Hall, Kim bark & Co " 5^T 4.... W. A. James & Co jBelting and lathe. 528 " 4.... S. W. Robmson Purchase of machinery, etc. Total $48,036 59 A P P E N D I X C. To the Regent and Board of Trustees of the Illinois Industrial University : The first Work of importance done on the farms, after the meeting of t h e Board, in March of last year, was the building and repairing of fences, t h e building of bridges and the making of farm roads. All the fences on the stock farm, between five and six miles in length, were overhauled, the east line set back two rods, to give room for a road newly opened from Urbana southward, the south line set over on to Mr. Percival's land, w i t h his neighborly aid and permission, to make room to plant a hedge on that side, and the work of removing and re-arranging the interior fences, begun by Mr. Periam, carried still further. A much needed road was made from the barnhouse to the tenant-house east of it, and two small bridges thrown across t h e intervening small streams. The materials of the interior fences removed were used in building temporary cribs and outside fences, some of which needed much additional material after removal. One rail fence removed and re-set, h a d stood, as I am informed, seventeen years. The Board of Trustees should understand, if they do not already, that when this farm came into the hands of the University it was very much run down, and that a great deal of labor a n d a great deal of money must be expended on it before it can be brought even into as good condition as a common, well-ordered farm. The former owner informs us that he determined to sell it only after a careful examination had convinced him that it had just reached that point of exhaustion where no further profits could be expected, without the expenditure of considerable money. I t was considered a fair subject for the amplication of ag^ ricultural science. Still it is a beautiful farm, and, w i t h the improvements contemplated by the Committee on Agriculture, will answer the purpose it was designed for admirably.
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