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Show 1 1 HE OLD LINE IS ; COUNTYJOUNDARY Attorney d'er.ernl Barnes 1vos Opinion Opin-ion Original Boundary to i be Determined by Stale Engineer v S. K. Itussel. (Jeorge (.J. Liudsey jar.d J. E. L. Carry, Duchesne county icfiminissioncrs. have returned from Ja trip to Salt Lake, where they went to consult with Attorney General Barnes and State Kngincor Beers with reference to I lie boundary lino between be-tween Duchesne and Uintah counties. ' According, to the information brought, back by the conimissiucrs the line, for the present at least, will remain where It was always supposed sup-posed to have been and the commissioners, commis-sioners, in their future deliberations, will to consider it. The tax payers in the strip in dispute will be called upon to pay taxes in Duchesne county. coun-ty. U tn3.v be that before the matter mat-ter Is finally settled it will have lo be taken to the courts. Jt may also be. 'necessary for the people of Duchesne Icouaty and tho people in the strip to' vole upon the question. If it should, conic lo a vote it is believed the peo-; 1 pie residing in the disputed territory' will be in favor of the strip belonging to Duchesne county. Such a Kettle-j roent of the dispute certainly would; avoid a groat deal of trouble and: 'many complications. In speaking of i . ' I 1 the conference between Duchesne ! county commissioners and state of- Trials the Salt Lake Hcrald-Rcpubll-an has this to say: 'Just whore the town of Roosevelt is located, whether it is within the .boundaries of Uintah county or with-j with-j in the boundaries of Duchesne eoun-! eoun-! ty is a question that is troubling the ; officials of both counties, who unable j to solve the puzzle, have enlisted the ' lid of Attorney General A. R. Barnes land ". I). Beers, state- engineer. To the latter has been designated the task of settling the dispute and determining de-termining the boundary line between the two counties The dispute inci-1 inci-1 dentally has to do with the exact i location of the one hundred and tenth meridian. "The commissioners of Uintah county have followed in the, lead set "y the supporters of the town of Duchesne at the time of the last election for the honor of being chosen the county seat, as against Roosevelt. This contention was that Roosevelt was outeide the boundary of Duchesne .county and therefore not eligible for ensideration as the county seat. Anyway, the Duchesne adherents won ml, and now come the commissioners of Uintah county, claiming the strip of land which marks the site of the town of Iloosovolt, while Duchesne ! county, on the other hand, pleads error and Sr. sec-king to retain Roosevelt. Roose-velt. I "Wherefore, a muddle has arisen ! and the assessor of each has assessed the property in the strip in question, J ibout 'j miles in width, for hif county. To complicate things still more, this strip, in addition to hold- ,ng within lis area the town of Roosevelt, Roose-velt, also is the place of residence of the county attorney, surveyor and sheriff of Duchesne county, - and furthermore i the; site of the new Ihirh school of Duchesne county and 'a new district school. The quest ion' as to location of Roosevelt arose of exact location of tho one hundred and tenth meridian. Some time ago the geodetic survey of the United Stales government located lo-cated the meridian about a mile and. a. half west of where it generally was ! supposed to be. If this ruling holds ;good, then Roosevelt Is in Uintah county, but Attorney General Barnes, who met with George Lindsay, a. A. ; Russell and J. F. L. Carey, commissioners commis-sioners of Duchesne county In his office of-fice yesterday holds that the lino i t fixed when Utah was admitted to statehood Is the one: that holds and the one which shall be determined is the county boundary line, regard-ess regard-ess of where the one hundred and tenth meridian is. "Engineer Beers also was present it the meeting and was given the facts of the case. It is now up to his leparlnient lo determine the location of tho original boundary line and tus settle tho dispute. "The now map issued by tho statti ureau of immigration, labor and statistics sta-tistics shows Roosevelt in Duchesne county by about half a mile, and this map shows the one hundred and tenth meridian as the boundary." o |