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Grading:. 



Grading operations outside the lines of road and building 

 contracts have been continued by means of our teams and 

 laborers throughout the year, as opportunity has been 

 afforded, the new surfaces being made with topsoil ranging 

 from one to four feet in thickness, obtained by stripping it 

 from path and road lines, and from stacks previously made 

 from the same sources. 



The east side of the driveway built last year from the 

 Southern Boulevard to the lakes was graded and sown or 

 sodded ; likewise the west side of this driveway from the 

 museum to the lakes, and the sides of the paths parallel to 

 this same driveway from the museum to the western lake, 

 and from the museum for 800 feet toward the herbaceous 

 grounds. 



The slope between the east end of the museum building 

 and this driveway, on which some work was done last year, 

 has been completed and sown ; a great deal of rock was en- 

 countered here, which was excavated to an average depth of 

 four feet beneath the finished surface. Considerable work 

 has been done in grading at the rear of the museum build- 

 ing, contingent upon the construction of the service road to 

 the rear of that building, and the finished surfaces sown. 



A large amount of filling, principally with top soil, has 

 been done along the western side of the western of the two 

 driveways to the front of the museum building ; but the com- 

 pletion of this work has necessarily been deferred until spring, 

 awaiting the finishing of these front approaches. Some top 

 soil has been hauled from path stripping about the herbaceous 

 grounds to the area south of the museum building and between 

 it and the driveway, and stacked there ready for spreading. 



The sides of the path, built along the western border of 

 the herbaceous grounds have been graded and sodded or 

 sown. 



The total area regulated and graded and sodded or sown 

 is over one acre. 



