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ZOOLOGICAL PARK COMMISSION. 



sion's prices and where the land remains to be acquired by the process 

 of condemnation specified in the act: 



Land acquired by agreement with the oivners. 



Owner. 



Miss A. E. J. Evans 



Heman D. Walbridge 



Wood ley Park Syndicate 

 The Messrs. Waggaman . 



Henry C. Holt 



Mrs. M. Caney 



Mrs. E. L. Dunn et al ... 



Total 



Acres. 



Price agreed 

 upon. 



94. 050 



$94, 860. 00 



14. 430 



14, 450. 00 



5. 103 



I. 00 



2. 350 



5, 875. 00 



13. 360 



40, 000. 00 



1.440 



3, 000. 00 



.392 



170. 76 



131. 145 



158, 356. 76 



List of property tvhich must be acquired by condemnation. 



Owner. 



Acres. 



Valuation of- 

 fered by Com- 

 mission and 

 approved by 

 President. 



Pacificus Ord 



J. P. Kliugle , 



Part colored cemetery 



E. E. Hayden 



McPherson & Finley 



Quarry road (public property) 



Section in stream bed. of unclaimed ownership 



Total 



Grand total 



24. 570 

 6. 180 

 1.700 

 .670 

 .315 



33. 435 

 .846 

 1.060 



1.906 



$9, 828. 00 

 4, 994. 00 

 3, 000 00 

 800. 00 

 200. 00 



18, 772. 00 



177, 128. 76 



The Commission calls attention to the fact that the accuracy of the 

 estimates of the probable cost of this land, submitted by the Smithson- 

 ian Institution to the Appropriation Committees of both houses of Con- 

 gress, and repeatedly referred to in debate, has been verified by the 

 cost of the purchases made up to date. Of the site of 121 acres that 

 was originally marked out on the maps and models submitted to Con- 

 gress, 90 acres have now been purchased by agreement. The estimate 

 to Congress of the cost of these 90 acres, taken separately, was $109,750, 

 whereas the actual cost of this ground, by agreement, is $104,316. The 

 plans herewith submitted show — 



(1) The relative area and location of the park, on a general map of 

 the city and suburbs. 



(2) The actual metes and bounds with the names of the original own- 

 ers, on a copy of the map described in the act. 



Judging from the progress thus far, it now seems probable that the 

 land remaining to be acquired by condemnation and appraisement pro- 

 ceedings, will cost the Government a sum not widely differing from the 

 Commission's valuation ; and if this should prove to be the case, after 

 allowing for incidental expenses, the total cost of the entire site will 

 fall so far within the $200,000 appropriated, even after the purchase of 

 about 45 acres beyond the originally contemplated area, as to leave a 

 balance, which may be applied to necessary preliminary expenses. 



Before the expiration of the present fiscal year the Zoological Park 

 Commission will have completed the duties with which it was charged 



