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8. That if in the future the State Board of Conservation shall have 

 failed to carry out the conditions enumerated herein, that the land as 

 described shall then revert to the owners or their heirs. 



9. That the said State Park when established shall be known and 

 named as "Wild Cat Den" or some derivative thereof. 



And, whereas, the above and foregoing offer is a valuable condition 

 precedent to the creation of a suitable State Park, of which the gift is 

 a nucleus; and 



Whereas, a total area of not less than three hundred acres is desirable 

 for such park, the use and value of which to the region surrounding of a 

 radius of perhaps twenty miles would receive a benefit of approximately 

 half that to the public at large, it is the opinion of the State Board of Con- 

 servation that this gift shall be accepted on the conditions made, and 

 that in order to acquire the balance of the lands, the Board should cause 

 the co-operation with it on behalf of the citizens in the immediate neigh- 

 borhood in the following or some other practical way: 



First: The citizens should assure the Board the entire area additional 

 to the 55 acres, which shall be acquired within one year of this date, at 

 an average cost per acre of not to exceed dollars per acre. 



Second: Of the total cost price of lands additional to the 55 acres 

 the citizens of the locality should contribute not less than Five Thousand 

 ($5000) Dollars, and the State pay the balance of the purchase price. 



Third: Upon the completion of these conditions the State should take 

 over, improve, administer and maintain forever the area as a State Park, 

 carrying these conditions in substance in its records, upon its maps, 

 guides and tablets, in such a way as to carry into the most remote fu- 

 ture, the element of philanthropy entering into the gift of the Brandt 

 sisters. 



A committee is hereby created to consist of Mr. Kelso and the Secre- 

 tary, which is hereby directed to submit to the Executive Council a copy 

 of these minutes for the tentative approval of said Council, and upon said 

 tentative approval, the Committee is directed forthwith to proceed by 

 personal, or other methods, to a proper arrangement with the local 

 citizens for the prompt and effectual carrying out of the conditions hereof. 



Tama, Iowa, July 21, 1919. 



Present: Chairman L. H. Pammel, Secretary E. R. Harlan, 

 Mr. Kelso, member. 



The Commission being in conference with Messrs. H. T. 

 Cherry, F. A. Solomon, H. L. Roberts, E. E. Goodell and George 

 Austin, proceeded to examine an area embracing the reservoir, 

 embracing some forty acres of water artificially impounded, the 

 grounds thereabouts including the race or ditch leading thereto 

 from a point upon the Iowa river some four miles upstream, and 

 a number of sites of hilly, wooded character nearby. 



