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it is expected to continue renting, with such restrictions and conditions, however, 

 that the needs of the administration as well as the reasonable expcctions of students, 

 transients and other boarders, as to entertainment, will be taken care of. 



Worl^ Performed. 



The work performed during the nine months of working season, during which 

 the College has been in charge of the property, can be grouped under the different 

 accounts which serve for the apportionment of appropriations, namely : 



Topographical Survey. 



Road-building, Districting and Opening-up. 



Stock taking. 



Improvement Account. 



Logging Operations. 



Building Account. 



Administration and Maintenance. 



Topographical ^ctrve^. 



Besides the boundary survey, which in part was performed by the College, a 

 topographical survey of the property has been made and completed but for the 

 sketch work of a few square miles, requiring about four weeks' more work. 



For this survey parties were organized under Professors Ogden and Mott of 

 the College of Civil Engineering, and students of that College and the College of 

 Forestry were employed in the work, thus giving, to the latter, especially, a valuable 

 experience. 



Since the men received adequate pay, and since the work was carefully super- 

 vised by competent surveyors, no charge of cheap and hence unsatisfactory work 

 may be raised against this kind of labor. Indeed this topographical survey has been 

 made on a scale and with a degree of accuracy which has not been usual in the 

 woods in the United States, namely, a scale of I :480c), or more than twelve inches 

 to the mile, in ten-foot contours, with over 200 measured points to the square mile. 

 On such a map a one-acre lot may still be conveniently located and measured. 

 Such scale and accuracy is by no means recommended for usual woods work, when 

 a scale of 1 : 20,000 would still do good service ; but since this tract is to serve as a 

 model and demonstration forest, it was thought best to incur the heavier expense 

 and attempt a map which would satisfy all possible demands in the future for forest 

 engineering work, road-building, subdivision, locating of nurseries, precise calculation 



