Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-05-01
THE WOODS ARE FULL OF THElr

Another PGrb-Dr. u 3. Elliot in the Lib
eIdJity Of HIS Heart Nahes q Donation
to the System.
DR.. j. S. Elliot, a pioneer resident of
Minneapolis, but now citizen of southern
California, comes to the front and offers
to donate the park system a tract of
land consisting of the block bounded by
Ninth and Tenth streets south and Ninth
and Tenth avenues south, for public park
It is in q fine location and easy
of access and the commission
should avail themselves of this
happy opportunity. The property in
question is valued at $4,000.
CENTRAL PARK.
At the meeting of the park commission
the following resolution was passed:
RESOLVED, by the Board of Park Commits
sioners of the city of Minneapolis:
That the following described tracts of
land lying within Hennepin county, and
the state of Minnesota, and within the
limits of the city of Minneapolis, be and
the same are hereby designated and select
ed for the purpose of public park for
the use of said city and the citizens there
of, and that the title for the same be &C.
quired for the purpose aforesaid to-wit:
Commencing at the northeasterly corner
of block five o., in the Washington Yale
addition to Minneapolis; thence along the
eesterly line of said block in a southeast
erly direction and across the street in said
addition, known as yale Place." and in
the same direction along the easterly line
of block eight (S), in said addition to the
southeast corner of said block; thence due
west along the south line of said block
eight lS) to point which is due north of
the west line of Places addition to the
city of Minneapolis; thence due south to
the north line of the southwest quarter of
section twenty-seven (27), in township
twenty-nine (29), north OF range twenty
four ga west; thence along said north line
of said quarter section due west, to point
in said line which is due south of the
| southwest corner of lot sixteen (16), in block
four AZ, in said washington Yale" addi-
ton, thence north to said southwest corner
of said lot sixteen 16); thence along the
easterly side of the alley in said block and
along said line produced until it strikes
the westerly line of block eight (8), in said
block four (4); thence along the westerly
line of said lot eight t8), to the street in
said addition known as Harmon Place.
and thence northeasterly on the line di-
vidlng said street from blocks four az and
five (5) in said addition, to the place of be-
| ginning; said tract containing the follow
ing lots and fractional lots in said addition
to-wit: Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, Z, s, 16, IL, 10,
| 10, 20, 81, %, %, "a, 25, &c and 81, in block
4; and lots l, 2. 3, 4, 5, 6, z, s, 9, 10, IL, -
Is and IA in block 5; and lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
! 6, Z, 8, 8, 10, IL, II, Is, IA, Is, 16 and II in
block 8; and lots l, 2, 3, 4, 5, g. SO, 1C
and II in block 8; and the said street and
alleys embraced i'm the boundary lines above
described, containing IA 35-100 acres.
Also the following tract of unplatted
land lying in the southwest quarter of Sec
ton twenty-seven (27), in township
twenty nine (29) north, and range twenty.
four (24) west, and bounded and described
as follows viz: On the north by the north
line of said quarter section; on the east by
the west line of Places addition to the
town of Minneapolis; on the south by the
north line of lots fourteen GA and fifteen
| (15), in block three (3) in said Places ad.
dltion, and the north line of Sixteenth (16)
street as laid out in said addition, and on
the west by Oak Grove street and by 'Cole
d Weeks Encouragement of lot l and J OF
j. s. Johnson's addition to Minneapolis.
Also lot G in j. s. Johnson's addition to
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Minneapolis, excepting the easterly 80 feet
| thereof. Also block two (2) and three e.
IN j. S. Johnson's subdivision of lots P, @
&, S and T, in j. S. Johnson's addition to
Minneapolis. Also, all that portion of o.
' and W in j. S. Johnson's addition to the
city OF Minneapolis lying southerly of a
straight line running in an easterly direc.
ton across said lots U, V and W from the
southeasterly corner of block one (I in j
5. Johnson's subdivision of lots P, Q, R, S
and L, of j. S. Johnson's addition to Min.
neapolis, to point on the dividing line
between lots W and X in said addition SOC
feet distant, measured along said dividing
line IN southerly direction from the
southerly line of Oak Grove street, at pres.
emit laid out across said lot X.
And that said tracts of land be forth
with surveyed and plated, andsa plat Of
the same be filed in the Office of the city
engineer.