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REPORTS FOR THE YEAR 1904 



REPORT 



SUBMITTED Tt) THE TRUSTEES JANUARY 11, 1905. 



To the Board of Trustees of the Missouri Botanical Garden: 



We submit for your consideration the financ: 

 for the year ending December 3 1st, 1904. < 



We are ^ifiKJ to :^ n 4 u ^4» # ¥&*¥*$ in t] 

 from rentals over tne previous £*ear of $10,385.61 

 the advance ( witlKtlie e^c*^ o# ^ $900.00,. 

 building ) was not the 'direct r'esult o"f the World' 



one 



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apjStt^ciation 



which condition will hold 



good for some 



years, and we 



estimate a further increase of $3,000.00 for the coming 



year 



Board are occupied and 



no vacancies are anticipated. 



We 



of only one piece of residence prop- 

 erty, a lot of 50 feet on Flora boulevard, but we look for 

 a demand in the early spring. 



Our state, school, city and sprinkling taxes for the year 

 1904 amounted to $35,463.17 which, compared with the 

 receipts from rentals, $120,221.60, looks at a glance 

 unreasonable and out of proportion . 



Mr. Shaw devised to the Board about 280 acres of land, 

 excluding the Garden, located west of Grand avenue, 

 leased either to market gardeners or vacant at the time of 

 his death, and in about the same condition to-day, much of 

 which we hope to dispose of as residence property when 

 the streets and sewers are completed. 



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