The Forestry Board, July 1919 caused to be paid 

 to the Company for more standing timber which it 

 desired to have reserved, the sum of $67,212.50. 



The total acreage in the original limits of Itasca 

 Park now belonging to the State and without includ- 

 ing two school sections is 18,626.52. Deducting from 

 this 6,591.75 acres granted by Congress leaves 12,034.77 

 acres which the State has acquired by conveyance 

 from individuals and corporations. The State has 

 received thirty-three deeds for land and timber and 

 paid $167,873.53. The deeds are on file in the office 

 of the State Auditor. Included in this amount is the 

 sum of $8,000 paid for taxes, ten years on land donat- 

 ed by - the Pine Tree Manufacturing Company. 



In the limits of the Park are two school sections 

 1280 acres which of course will ultimately become 

 a part of the Park. Under our constitution they must 

 be sold at public sale and the proceeds placed in the 

 permanent school fund.| 



Chapter 306 Laws of 1919 added to the Park 14 

 sections of land very nearly 9,000 acres that border 

 its west side; but only five dollars per acre can be 

 paid for it. So far the Forestry Board has purchased 

 4,471.59 acres at a cost of $22,358.15. They are not 

 included in the above total of the State's acreage in 

 the original limits of the Park. 



Besides the principal hotel building called Doug- 

 las Lodge there are, as neighboring buildings mostly 

 of logs, a club house, a restaurant, twelve cottages 

 and foundations for two new cottages. One hundred 

 and twenty-five guests can be lodged. There is an- 

 electric lighting plant and a hot water plant. There 



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