Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-09-05 | Page 7 | [Illegible] Man's Land is Located in Utah

i MI'S Hi IS ffiTEMN UTAH jfrnta County Surveyor lips Meridian Westward Some Distance. ! DNTROVERSY RESULT J fference in Taxable Property Prop-erty Available for Assess- ment Causes Turmoil. ,i If vial to The Tribune. 'HVHESNE, Sept. 4. After having n lost for several years since Ok-oma Ok-oma was admitted to statehood, " Xo n's Land" has suddenly reappeared ng the extreme eastern boundary of ht month-old Duchesne county in & theastern Utah. Its dimensions arc I ch smaller than it was when it ceased Off be the rendezvous of Texans, Xew Vxieans and Indian territory citizens V anxious to meet with officers of the V, but except in that one respect it L i all the other marks of the famous raping ground. inta and Duchesne counties are en- red in a vigorous dispute as to which , lie rightful owner ot the trust, which ntains, besides the third-class citv of a, psevelt, a long stretch of the richest -ieultural land in the far-famed I ' ita basin. Premonitions of the ca-, ca-, lity that has so abruptly descended IHm tne peace-loving inhabitants of I j's region were first felt more than a 1 jr ago. Roosevelt, situated in almost 1 1, extreme northeast corner of the I Vly-created county, threw its hat into j ' ring in the county-seat, contest, ich thereby became triangular. j rmody Starts Ball. I Vn unusually enterprising civil en- eer in Myton, D. L. Carmody, lost ' time in getting into print with an jertion that Roosevelt was not in the v county, since the 110th meridian a few feet west of the town, and I ' constitution of Utah had fixed the ' th meridian as the western boundary '7 1 of Uinta county. This startling tement was not taken very seriously anyone at the time, being looked m as one of the natural ebullitions of farm campaign. However, the Uinta nty commissioners looked at the mat-differently, mat-differently, and after a quiet investi-ion investi-ion authorized their county surveyor, e Hughel, to make a joint survey h. the Duchesne county surveyor, .ig Harmston (a resident of Roose- Mft) to definitely locate the meridian ''V so ascertain the boundary line be--ien the two counties. This is the pro-gfure pro-gfure prescribed by law. ved the Meridian. .'ounty Surveyor Harmston refused to . and Mr. Hughel took the field alone. moved the elusive meridian one and !quarter miles and two and one-half s west of its hitherto accepted per-nent per-nent domicile for a distance of thirty es north and south. Its new location ust ninety feet nearer the setting sun n the handsome $40,000 Duchesne tnty high school building recently structed in the western part of sevelt. The L'inta county commis- aers then appealed to State Engi- I t Beers to come and establish the nty line, according to the provisions the state law, ana he is expected at ' time. lestion of Income. Jeanwhile. Engineer Hughel is in cbesne making copies at the court-ise court-ise of the assessment notices against h parcel of land in the disputed strip, that Uinta county may collect the es thereon this fall. Mr. Hughel tes that the total assessed valuation this new accession to Uinta country about $150,000, but Representative tliam O'Neil, a prominent Roosevel-o, Roosevel-o, declares the right amount to be und $2-57,000, which would be in the t ghborhood of one-seventh of the total uation of Duchesne county. The shesne county board of commission- I is in session, and haB listened at-Hvely at-Hvely to Surveyor Hughel 's presen-ion presen-ion of the case, but declines to make . move until the state engineer has de his survey and report.