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48G History University of IUitu 555,400 470,000 $ 85,400 Champaign bid on basis of calculation adopted by committee /,i Bloomington bid, as reported by committee Excess of Champaign bid over Bloomington This land offer from Champaign county is very valuable; more valuable, in the event the University is located there, than all the bonds offered by McLean county. The scarcity of water, in and about Bloomington, renders it wholly impracticable as the site of the Industrial University. Wherever this institution is located, there ultimately should be the place of holding the State fair, which will require a large supply of water. There is no living water in the vicinity of Bloomington. Both this city and Normal are frequently in a very destitute condition; the only means of supply being from cisterns, while Champaign is abundantly supplied with streams and fountains of never failing water. The day that the committe made their visit to Champaign, was one of the coldest and most disagreeable of the season, which prevented a full and satisfactory examination of the lands offered to the State, and the committee was unable to procure all the facts necessary to a proper estimate of the value of the said land. W. D. SOMERS, T. A. COSGROVE, C. R. MOREHOUSE, Committee of Board of Supervisors of Champaign county. INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY To the General Assembly of the State of Illinois, now in session: Our notice having been called to a paper purporting to be put forth by W. D. Somers, T. A. Cosgrove and C. R. Morehouse, acting as a committee in behalf of Champaign Co., we desire re;|g*§$$fally to ask your attention to the fact that the statements therein made in regard to the comparative value of property offered tyy McLean and Champaign Counties respectively, is pre? dicated|||fc|upon actual sales or values, but on town or coug|^ assessments. The joint committee of the two houses Ygry properly based their estimates of value on actual cash sales, and so
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