Show Duchesne county commission meeting Activities reported in minute review The following excerpts are taken from the county commissioners' minutes of their meeting held oh at the courthouse in t The commissioners have decided to purchase a culvert for the wash north of Roosevelt provided that Roosevelt City installs Another decision made by the commissioners at their special 23 meeting was to sell all fixtures and materials in the old courthouse as well as the the large transport two dump beds and the old The clerk was asked to ad vertise these items for sale at 10 at The commissioners decided to let the county trucks help haul from Vernal to the Union High Schol roads and park-inn It was understood by the county that Uintah county is to furnish the process load it and roll and the Indian Department will furnish as many trucks as it The school district will furnish two Duchesne county will furnish Bud Phillips and Lloyd Stevens of the Utah Fish and Game Department inquired about purchasing the land on Blacktail belonging to Broadhead of to be used as a game and asked approval of such purchase from the Duchesne County Board of Commissioners at their September After discussing this the motion was made by Commissioner Elmer Moon of Duchesne that the board of county commissioners approve the purchase of the Broadhead property on Black-tail Mountain by the Utah State Fish and Game but that due to the fact that Duchesne has so much land which is owned iby the state and federal governments land is that as soon as a system te worked out so that money in lieu of taxes be paid to the county on this and other non-taxable and that the county clerk notify the Utah State Fish and Game Commission of Motion and R. O. Curry of the Uintah and Ouray Indian Agency at Duchesne met with the Duchesne County Commissioners at their regular September meeting and discussed the matter of letting Duchesne County have asphalt from a deposit on Yellowstone for paving They said an application for removing asphalt from this deposit for this purpose should be made to Darrell Fleming of the agency as the first step toward obtaining this road-paving The representatives said this should list the land description and should explain the interest and use the county has for the John J. Anders of the Standard Oil of California renewed his request to lease lands on Blue This request was taken under advisement by the county H. McKee of the Cal-Neva Oil explained to the county that his company had turned over its operations and holdings to a California company which would present a check for the rentals on oil lease on Blue that drilling on the Mitchell well southeast of Duchesne had been stopped and it would not be resumed until a geologist made a that fur- ther business would he transacted through the company receiving the interests in this E. L. May reported to the county commissioners that he would like to lease the county oil rights on Blue Bench and that if the county would it to he would carry out all drilling commitments of the Cal-Neva Oil and would post a bond to insure Dennis J. Wheeler of the Cal-Neva Oil reported that his company had drilled feet of well on the Mitchell property but had run out of money and had been forced to stop operations at that Truman of Roosevelt asked for the opportunity to lease Blue Bench lands provided the land was not leased to E. L. A delegation from Roosevelt lias asked the Duchesne County Commissioners to assist in and operation of a television The delegation consisted of Kenneth R. Richard J. L. Tina Fay R. Fern Milligan and all of the Uintah Basin Television The matter was taken under advisement by the Lloyd Duchesne District agricultural presented a plan to the county commissioners for organization and operation of a county planning and advisory committee to assist him in determining what Should be done by his department as agricultural representative of the Extension The hearing date for the 1958 budget for Duchesne County was set for October Kenneth Ivie made a request to the county commissioners that the approach to the Strawberry area onto U. S. Highway 40 be made Elmer R. was asked to look into this A delegation from Roosevelt and Duchesne met with the county commissioners and requested the county to participate in the building of a new city jail in They explained that the county used the jail nearly as much as Roosevelt City They estimated that the jail would cost about and asked the county to pay This request was taken under advisement by the County The delegation consisted of Lynn Heber T. Ellen Kenneth Roe McDonald and Lorin After hearing a report and being fully the county commissioners voted for the county to assume the bills the fair board were unable to pay this George H. Duchesne precinct asked the county commissioners to remodel the jail and make a place for women It was agreed by the board that the Standard Oil of California be granted a right of way for a gas line from Bluebell well to the Roosevelt which will extend from Bluebell oil field in a southeasterly Duchesne District agricultural was assigned to start planning the 1958 state fair booth for Duchesne After discussion with Ariel state it was decided by the commissioners not to issue license to any cafe or operate or to an establishment making retail sales of beer until the owners or operator had first met all the requirements of the Utah State Board of Complimentary tickets were offered by Lloyd agricultural to the county commissioners and their partners to the Homecoming at the UTAH State University on The event will include a football game and a banquet The board voted to allow up to on the purchase of a new audiometer to be used in Duchesne County through the public health nurses's C. C. Duchesne City explained his position in regard to placing a county garage on the courthouse He favors the landscaping of the entire block and not to have any buildings except the courthouse on this |