An addition to the law building made at a cost of $28,000.

Live stock pavilion was erected at a cost of $32,000.

Farm machinery building was erected at a cost of $5,000.

Pillsbury heirs donated land valued at $15,000 and Alfred F. Pillsbury enclosed Northrop field with fence at a cost of $15,000.

$5,000 was added to the Ludden trust fund.

1905.

The Board of Control supervision over University affairs abolished.

The graduate school was formally organized. The school of agriculture was established at Crookston.

The University council organized.

1907.

$105,000 granted by the legislature to increase salaries.

Professors' salaries advanced an average of about 30 per cent.

$450,000 granted by the legislature for campus extension.

$76,000 granted for additions to the experimental farm.

$250,000 given for an engineering building. Pasteur institute established.

Folwell Hall erected at a cost of $415,000. Main building of the department of agriculture erected at a cost of $250,000.

School building erected at Crookston at a cost of $15,000.

Nelson bill became a law.

A view of the crop nursery at the University Farm showing the centgeners of grain in process of harvesting. Over half a million of plants are handled each year in this way.

CONGRESSIONAL LAND GRANTS.

In his second message to the legislature, in 1851, Governor Ramsey recommended the establishment of a University and added—“As an endowment of a University will also naturally, in this connection, attract your attention, it might be proper to further memorialize Congress for a grant of 100,000 acres of land, applicable and available, at a future day, for this most desirable object. The propriety of urging, at this time, the request, arises from the importance of making early selection, with a view to securing a fair proportion of choice lands." This memorial was passed on the 10th of February and Congress passed an act upon the 19th of the same month, reserving two townships for this purpose. The title to this land did not vest in the state until the act of March 2, 1861, donated what had previously been reserved for this purpose. The University received from this grant, 46,468.35 acres of land. Of this amount 15,410.85 acres were sold by the regents, under authority of the acts of 1864 and 1866, to pay the debts of the territorial institution. So this grant netted the University 31,057.5 acres. The second grant, by act of Congress approved July 2d, 1862, gave the state 120,000 acres for the endowment and support of an agricultural college, including instruction in mechanic arts and military science.

The record of how this was finally secured for the University is a long and most interesting story, the main facts of which are as follows:

An act of the Legislature of Minnesota, passed March 10, 1858, set aside lands in McLeod county for a site for an agricultural college and for an experimental farm. This institution was to be under the control of the president and executive committee of the state agricultural society. In 1861 the state donated to

this college all the swamp lands of McLeod county. Nothing was ever done toward organizing a college at this place. The congressional grant of 1863 was accepted and the lands located and, because the affairs of the University were in such unsettled condition, these lands were made over to the agricultural college at Glencoe, in 1866. The following year, the special board of three made a report showing a wiping out of the debt of the University and 32,000 acres of the territorial grant still untouched. Through the good offices of Regent Pillsbury, then senator, the two grants were consolidated and given to the University. It was provided that the swamp lands granted to the McLeod institution, which amounted to 4,684 acres, should remain in the possession of that institution as an endowment of Stevens Seminary.

By virtue of the act of February 18th, 1868, the act reorganizing the University and under which, with some amendments the University now exists, these lands were made over to the University.

These lands were chosen and certified to the University as follows: 68,928.08 acres at the minimum or single value, mentioned in the act, and 25,511.20, at double the minimum value, counting as 51,022-40 acres, making the total 119,950.48 acres, under the terms of the grant.

The third grant, being really the second grant in point of time of the act of Congress making the same, was that provided for in the enabling act authorizing the people of the territory to set up a state government, passed February 26th, 1857, which granted two townships for the endowment of a state university.

So far as appears no effort was made to secure for the University the land it was entitled to under this act, until the Reverend E. D. Neill, who was at that time chancellor of the Uni

versity, brought the matter to the attention of Governor Ramsey and in a communication dated April 5th, 1860, set forth his views concerning the right of the University to 72 sections of land under the Enabling Act. Governor Ramsey took up this matter before the commissioners of the general land office who ruled against the University. Here the matter rested until the special board of three regents was created by the act of 1864. This board immediately took action looking toward the securing of the rights of the University under this act and at their request Governor Miller filed notice of the selection of a portion of said grant in the proper office in Taylor's Falls in February, 1864, in order to test the validity of the claim of the University to these 72 sections of land.

The commissioner of the general land office rendered an adverse decision. The regents appealed from the decision of the commissioner to the secretary of the interior and Governor Marshall volunteered to bring the claim of the University before the secretary and made a visit to Washington for the purpose. No decision was reached at that time and it was recommended that the regents employ an attorney to prosecute the claim of the University before the department. Under authority of an act passed February 18th, 1867, the regents employed Mr. H. B. Beard to conduct the case on a contingent fee of two sections of land to be selected by him. The secretary was finally persuaded that the claim of the University was just but did not feel warranted in reversing the decision of the former officer of the department and recommended a bill be introduced into congress allowing the University the 72 sections of land. Through the influence of Mr. Beard and the Hon. Eugene M. Wilson, representative in congress, and Hon. Alexander Ramsey, in the senate, this bill finally became a law July 8th, 1870, and these lands were made available for the endowment of the University.

A question was raised as to the right of the regents to employ the methods they did to secure this grant of land from the government, especially envolving the agreement with Mr. Beard.

This matter was held open for six years and was finally settled by an act of the legislature February 17th, 1876, "legalizing a deed made by the University of Minnesota to Henry B. Beard as compensation for his services as counsel in prosecuting the claim of the state for 72 sections of land for a state University."

Afterward, there was another ruling of the interior department, in which it was held that since 9,764.60 acres of the territorial grant had not been selected and certified, until after the admission of the state into the Union, this amount should be charged against the second grant, reducing the number of acres available under that grant, to 37,079.24. This ruling was later overruled, and the University finally received 45,661.14 acres.

Owing probably to the fact that the records of the early days were not kept with sufficient exactness, many pieces of land chosen by the regents were afterwards entered by settlers and the settlers were given the preference in the matter and the regents were afterwards allowed to select other lands to replace those lost in this way. Many thousands of acres of land had to be thus duplicated.

STATE INSTITUTION FUND. Under the state law of 1865 certain swamp lands were set aside to be sold for the benefit of state institutions. The state constitutional amendment which was adopted in 1881 acted to repeal the law of 1865 and the law of 1907 was passed to make effective the plain intent of the constitutional amendment of 1881. The fund from the sale of this land had grown to be $780,556.25 at the end of the fiscal year, 1906. This fund is kept intact and only its income apportioned for the benefit of the state institutions. One-half of the interest goes to the common school fund and the balance to state institutions pro rata on the basis of the cost of maintenance.

The latest report of the state auditor shows that the University has received from the two grants to the University $843,069.76. There has been received from the agricultural land grant, $570,747.59; making a total of $1,413,817.35. Of the agricultural land grant but forty

acres remain unsold. This fund came from the following sources: sales of land $824,534.57; forfeitures and right of way, $15,314.71; sales of timber, $497,407.27; mineral permits and leases, $62,178.00; royalty on iron ore, $6,040.07; from the state institutions fund $7,292.73; from internal improvement land fund, $150.00; profits on sales of bonds, $900.

SALT SPRING LANDS.

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The United States government, in 1857, ceded to Minnesota 46,080 acres of so-called "salt spring lands." The legislature of Minnesota gave 7,643 acres to the Belle-Plaine salt company to encourage the investigations of this company into the possibility of using the lands for the production of salt. No results were accomplished through this grant, the company disposing of the land at a good figure and doing almost no work in return for the same. ond grant was asked by the same company, and the legislature called Professor Winchell, of the University of Michigan, to investigate and report. His report showed that nothing was to be hoped from such grants, and in 1872 an act was passed creating the geological and natural history survey and granting to that survey, for its support, all of the lands then remaining of the congressional grant of 1857. It was found that of the 46,080 acres granted by Congress, 11,520 acres were situated on lands belonging to the Indians; 6,750 acres had been taken up by settlers, under the homestead laws, and 1,600 acres covered by a previous swamp land grant, making a total of 27,515 acres not available for the endowment of the survey, and leaving but

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18,754 acres available for that purpose. nor Pillsbury introduced into the legislature, and secured the passage of a resolution, asking Congress to cede other lands to cover those which had been lost to the state through no fault of its own. In 1879, this was done, and twenty-four sections, 15,360 acres, were ceded to the state, and by the state made over for the endowment of the survey, making the total amount of land available for the purpose, 34,114 acres. The sales of these lands, to August 1, 1906, amounted to $303,475.23. There was then due on contracts outstanding, $4,815.17. There were about 5,000 acres of land unsold.

THE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS.

The first purchase of land for the present site was made by the University, October 21st, 1854, twenty-five and one-third acres being purchased at that time of Paul R. George and Joshua Taylor. A mistake was made in making out his deed and to correct the same a new quitclaim deed was made by Calvin Tuttle, who quitclaimed the land intended to be conveyed in the previous deed, on July 21st, 1856. The quitclaim deed covered twenty-seven and eight-onehundredths acres. This piece of land was bounded on the south by the section line running eighty-nine rods from the east bank of the Mississippi river, thence north thirty-nine and threequarters degrees west to a point approximately at the corner of the present intersection of 14th and University avenues southeast, thence back to the river on a line conforming very closely with the present railroad tracks. The consideration paid by the regents was $6,000, $1.000 in