following lands in the park, which had belonged to 

 Hon. John S. Pillsbury, at $2.00 per acre and $5.50 

 per 1,000 feet for all white and Norway pine thereon: 

 Lots 1, 4, 5^ and 9 of Section 13 ; E i/ 2 of NW% and 

 NWi/4 of th*e NEi/i of Section 28 ; and lots 1 and 4 of 

 Section 15, all in Township 143, Range 36. That he had 

 also purchased the Rust property, consisting of three 

 acres of land and house thereon in Section 2 in said 

 township. That he had caused to be condemned the 

 NI/O of the SWi/4 and lots 1 and 2 of Section 35, 

 Township 144, Range 36, which was attached to Itasca 

 Park by Chapter 52 of the laws of 1901; the title 

 obtained at a cost of $1,200.00. That the legislature, 

 session of 1901, appropriated $100 for experimenting 

 in tree planting in the park, and that ,from experiments 

 made in the spring of 1901, he caused to be trans- 

 planted in March, 1902, 10,000 Norway pine averaging 

 in height six to twelve inches ; that they were taken 

 from places in the park where young pine could be 

 found by the thousands, and transplanted in barren 

 places; that he followed closely the recommendations 

 of Mr. J. M. Underwood of Lake City, and after con- 

 sultation with Prof. S. B. Green of the Agricultural 

 experiment Station; that the trees were transplanted 

 early in March, were slightly watered and invariably 

 placed in the shade of a small shrub or tree; that 

 "the result of the expenditure of the one hundred 

 dollars referred to as the state's bounty is that from 

 seventy-five to eighty per cent of the trees so trans- 

 planted are now living." 



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