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Sixteen Years at the University of Illinois

LAND ACQUIRED FROM 1868 TO 1904 Oil»y Proporty in Urbaiia and Champaign City Property in Chicago Item 30 Acres 2,64 Cost3 $2,300

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18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Total

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$ 400 200 150 450 150 830 4,500 3,700 4,800 7,000 5,500

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.89 o 2.2 6.3 .38 .3 1.1 .27 .81 13.28

$27,680

SUMMARY Acres City property acquired in 1867 " " M " 1868-1904 Farm property acquired in 1867 " g " " 1868-1904 Total Less Sales Net Total—1904 Estimated value, if donated "Comptroller's Report, U. of HI., 1913, p. 88 III. FROM 1904 TO 1920 51.2 15.92 966.77 Cost1 $ 56,060 29,980 67,210

1,033.89 400.2 633.69

$153,250 24,200 $129,050

Daring the sixteen years from 1904 to 1920 substantial additions were made both to the campus proper and to the farm lands occupied by the University. In 1905 two lots on the west side of Mathews Avenue and north of Green Street were purchased.21 Three lots at the