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Show I PETITION FOR ! LINBON TOWN County Commission Hears Arguments Pro and Con in New Town Case. Oratory flowed unrestrained at the meeting of the Utah county commission Monday forenoon when a large group of petitioners and protestors appeared in thQ Linden town case. A petitioon signed by 141 out of 105 eligible voters in Linden was presented to the commission asking for the establishment of a town comprising the district between ! Orem ou the south and Pleasant Grove on the north. Speeches in . favor of establishing such a to-,vn were made by County Attorney Martin M- Larson,, Benjamin Walker, Walk-er, D. B. Thome and Alf Keetch, Sr. Among those who appeared against the granting of such a petition peti-tion wrere Dana T. Smith, represent-! ing the Los Angeles and Salt Lake railroad, H. P. Mack, Robert Black-hurst, Black-hurst, Nathaniel Loader, Clifton Tomlinson, Fred Newman, Thomas Fenton, Will Green and Richard Walker. None of the protestnuts, w-ith the exception of Mr. Mack, reside re-side within the proposed town. Most of the protestants were Pleasant Grove residents who owned own-ed land within the district. None of those who spoke against the petition pe-tition were opposed to the establishment establish-ment of a town government but merely asked for the exclusion of his particulad property within the district. The lands in dispute arc mainly situated on the lower section of the proposed town on the west bouu-dry bouu-dry line and to the north adjniniirj I IMonsant Orove. It; is understood that, the main i reason for the organizing of the town government is to be aide lo bond for the installment of an up-to-date water work system. The district is more thickly populated than is the Orem town although it does not cover as large an area. |