154 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Mr: Johnston moved the report of the committee be adopted 

 Seconded by ]\Ir. Brown. Carried. 



On motion of Mr. Johnston, duly seconded by Mr. Packard, and 

 carried, the Secretary was authorized to draw warrants on the 

 Treasurer of the State Board, covering deficiency of State appro- 

 priation for Assistant Secretary's salary. 



On motion of Mv. Legoe, duly seconded and carried, the Secre- 

 tary was authorized to employ a stenographer and clerk at a salary 

 of $75 per month. 



On motion the Board adjourned. 



Joint Meeting of Executive Committee and Special Committee 



ON Land. 



September 18, 1906. 



A joint meeting of the Executive Committee and the Special 

 Committee appointed by the President, as per resolution of the 

 Board on August 31st, for the purpose of making an effort to se- 

 cure a tract of land lying between the south line of the Fair 

 Grounds and Dean Avenue, met at the Secretary's office, wath the 

 following members present : IMorrow, Cameron, Simpson, Curtiss, 

 Packard and Olson. 



Owing to the fact that some objection had been made by mem- 

 bers of the East Des Moines Commercial League to the sale of land 

 belonging to the State, which land was- useless so far as the State 

 Fair was concerned, and with the proceeds purchasing the land 

 needed south of the grounds, the Secretary had invited a committee 

 from the Commercial League to meet with the committee from the 

 Department of Agriculture. The committee accepted the invita- 

 tion and there was present J. A. IMcKinney, A. B. Elliott, J. K. 

 Stuart and Isaac Brandt. 



The objections oft'ered by the members of the committee from the 

 East Des Moines Commercial League could be summed up as fol- 

 lows: 



First. — That the thirty-nine acres which it was proposed to sell 

 should not be sold, but should be kept by the State for the purpose 

 of establishing a Botanical Garden. 



Second. — That the amount for which the State proposed to sell 

 the land was too low ($150.00 per acre), it being their opinion that 

 the land was worth much more than that. 



