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Show WHERE IS TOWN OF ROOSEVELT? TWO COONTMMITS TERRITORY Just where the town of ItooauNelt I located, whether It I within the lioun-darle lioun-darle of I'lntuli county or within tho boundurlr of )uohenn county I a iiiectloii thnt I troubling tho official of both countle, who, unable to solve the puzile, huve enllMed tho aid of Attorney Clenernl A. It. Ilarnr and W. I. Ileer, tat engineer, To tho latter ha been designated tho task of settling tho dlnpute and determining determin-ing the boundary line Itetween tho two counties. The dlnpute Incidentally ha to do with the exact location of the one hundred nnd tenth meridian. Tho rnminlssloner of Uintah county coun-ty lmo followed In the lead set by the supporters of tho town of Duchesne at tho tlmo of tho taut election for thn honor of bring chosen tho county scat a against H(Miseelt. Thl contention conten-tion wa that' Itoosevelt was outsldo tho boundury of Duchesne county and therefore not eligible for consideration considera-tion as the county seat. Anyway, tho Ducheano adherent won out, nnd now como tho commlMloner of Uintah county, claiming tho strip of land which mark tho site of tho town of Itoosevelt, whllo Ducheano county, on the other hnnd, pleads error and Is seeking to retain Itoosevelt. Wherefore, a muddle ha arisen nnd the assessor of each has nssessed the property In tho rtrlp In question, nbout one and n half mile In width, for hi county. To compllcato thing still more, this strip, In addition to holding within Its area the town of Itoosnxett, also Is the place of real-denco real-denco of the county attorney, surveyor sur-veyor und sheriff of Ducheano county, coun-ty, and furthermore Is tho site of the new high school or Ducheano county and a nrw district school. Tho question as to location of Itoosexelt arose of exact location of tho one hundred nnd tenth meridian. Some tlmn ago tho grodetlo survey of the United States government loruted tho nu-rldlsn nbout a mile und n half west or where It generally wa up-posed up-posed to be. If this ruling holds good, then llootevelt Is In Uintah county, but Attorney General llarnrs, who met with (leorge Lindsay, 8. A. Ilus-sell Ilus-sell nnd J. '. L. Carry, commissioners of Duchesne county, In his office recently re-cently holds that the lino fixed when Utah was admitted to statehood Is the one that holds and the one which shall be determined as the county boundary line, regardless of where the one nun-drod nun-drod and tenth meridian Is. Engineer Ileer nlso waa present at tho meeting nnd was given the facts of the case. It Is now up to his department de-partment to determine tho luiatlon of tho original boundary line nnd thus settle the dispute. The ne.r map Issued by the state bureau of Immigration, labor nnd statistic sta-tistic show Itoosevelt In Duchesne county by about half a mile, and this map shows tho one hundred and tenth meridian ns the boundary. 1 |