REPORT OF THE OFFICERS OF THE BOARD. 
SUBMITTED TO THE TRUSTEES, JANUARY 8, 1913. 
To the Board of Trustees of the Missouri Botanical Garden: 
We submit for your consideration the financial results for 
the year ending December 31, 1912. 
The earnings from rentals have exceeded those of the 
year 1911 by $15,423.90, the result of securing tenants for 
several buildings which were vacant during a portion of 
1911-12, though we still have some vacancies, amounting to 
about $200.00 per month. 
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As a large portion of our most valuable income property — 
is under lease for long terms, we can hardly expect any 
further increase in rentals for several years. 
During the past year we were compelled to purchase a 
piece of prone on Grand Avenue, adyoraitio some of our 
most valuable residence property on Flora Boulevard, 
thereby preventing the erection of an automobile gasoline 
station, at a cost of $8,385.40. 
Our expenditure for street improvements has been very 
small, as some of the improvements mentioned in our last 
os were postponed until this year, but we will be com- 
e 
pelled to pay for the following during the year 1913: 
PW AVGNNE 85. ess eens cS Roadway 62-05. Gscene $13,500 00 
Bhaw Avenns:: 3. as; Sidewalk | ..3 2.2 ;300 00 
Motien Anoe .5 Sidewalk: 2 See 1,650 00 
Arsene Btreet oi ois oe Lk Siw se DROW. ee Oks ee ees 950 00 
City Block No. 4940............. Ps ee a. 1,257 00 
Washington Avenue.............. ROnOwey 6 esa Sas 436 00 
St Charles Street. ...........6.4. ROMGWRY Secs oe eS 545 00 
Total iiss hes ng ae ee ee ee $19,638.00 
The tract of land known as Lafayette Avenue Addition, 
lying west of Grand Avenue, and which is fully improved 
as far west as Lawrence Street, is being disposed of at satis- 
factory prices, and already 6,713 front feet have been sold 
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