Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1884 [PAGE 245]

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249 Trustee Earle offered the following resolution:

Resolved, That the President of the Board of Trustees, the Regent, and the Treasurer, be and are hereby appointed a Committee on Department Accounts, and that they report to this Board at the December meeting a system of accounts relating to said several departments in the University.

Passed. It was voted that the employment of a teacher of elocution be postponed until the December meeting. The following resolution was offered by Trustee Earle, and was passed:

WHEREAS, The Regent of the University, and Professors Morrow, Burrill and McMurtrie have been .appointed special commissioners from this State for organizing certain exhibits for the World's Industrial Exposition at New Orleans, and WHEREAS, These exhibits will not only contribute to the usefulness of the Exposition and will be an essential part of the general exhibit to be made by the State of Illinois, but will be of especial advantage to the University in advertising its practical and scientific character to the world at large, therefore Resolved, That leave of absence be granted to these gentlemen not exceeding one month each to attend the World's Exposition and attend to the arrangement of their several exhibits; the periods and times of these absences to be arranged by the Regent so as to embarrass as little as possible the working of their several departments.

The following report from Trustee Millard, from Committee on Lands in Minnesota, was received and ordered put on file:

To the Board of Trustees of the Illinois Industrial University: GENTLEMEN—The undersigned, your Executive Committee, respectfully report that they have investigated the condition and value of lands owned by the University in Kandiyohi, Renville and Pope counties in the State of Minnesota, and from all the information your committee have been able to obtain by means of correspondence they are of the opinion that said lands have not reached a value which warrants the Board in offering them for sale. The Nebraska lands have ripened into a market value much faster than the Minnesota lands, owing to the more rapid settlement of Nebraska. The Minnesota lands are gradually improving. Their location is not as favorable as they would be if the R. R. was nearer. Nevertheless it is a question of time, only, when they will bring ten dollars and upwards an acre, and until that time comes your committee recommend that no expense be incurred in surveying or advertising such lands. The correspondence with the chairman of your committee is herewith submitted for the better information of the Board, being three letters from G-. H. Perkins, of Wilmar, Minnesota. S. M. WILLARD, CHAS. BENNETT. Executive Committee.

THE CENTRAL LAND CO., S. M. MLLLAKD. ESQ.,

WILLMAE, MINN., July 23,1884.

DEAB SIB: Your esteemed favor of 2lst inst.fis before me, and I am very glad to renew our correspondence. Though I am not able to make you any flattering promises of large sales of your lands in the immediate future, nevertheless my sales have been very satisfactory this season. As you will see by the above, I am now connected with a stock company, and will say that my facilities for advertising and selling lands have been greatly improved by the change. If you will send me a list of your lands in this part of the State, with your prices and terms of sale, I am confident that I can close out at least a few tracts to good advantage within coming year. With kind regards, I am Yours very truly, GEO. H. PERKINS, Secretary.

WILLMAE, MINN., July 31,1884.

S. M. MILLAED, ESQ.,

DEAE S I E : Replying to your favor of the 25th inst.in mv opinion the Illinois Industrial University lands in this county will sell for from $5 to $10 per acre on the terms you mention, and might bring a better price next year. If they are to be offered for sale during Spring of 1885, it would be a wise plan for you to come about Sept. 1st, and look th^m over and fix values on them. Can spend the time to go with you after that time but not before, and then you would have ample time to make your report and have it acted upon by your Board before next Spring opens. Catalogue received. Thanks. Hoping to see you here soon, I am Yours very truly, GEO. H. PERKINS, Secretary.