Show Fruitland Utah June 27 1920 Duchesne Record I wish you would please publish this little article so that the people and and taxpayers of our several districts districts dis dis- districts will fully understand the true rue situation of things as u t they y now stand I see in our state auditors re rc re port oil on roads wherein he says that above Duchesne it was repol reported ed that one Rockhill at Fruitland was using the state grader or or- equipment or-equipment i ion on other roads than state roads an anin and ana andin in answer I will vill say I and other of oi our loyal citizens of Fruitland have used the state grader on roads herein herein here herein in Fruitland to a mighty good advantage advantage tage in the spring l when the roads were soft and in a suitable le condition condi condi- tion I am proud of the work and furthermore I wish to state that we have worked the gr grader der on the main traveled traveled roa road here in Fruitland extending from the head of Deep Creek to where the roads on Tabiona Mountain or Mountain comes together If this road is other than the st state te road orthe orthe or orthe the r road ad that the people wish to travel trav trav- el I for one as a a citizen and tax payer payer pay pay- er et would like to be positively in in- formed Furthermore I have never received one penny for the work I have put in on the roads and I am frank to state that I have d done ne my share with any man in this state The Governor and State Engineer billed the grader to o me n e at Heber and I paid for transporting it to Fruitland Fruitland Fruitland Fruit- Fruit land and under these conditions I feel that I 1 should be reimbursed for the expense expense- I went to in in bringing the grader cr out here If I I have clone done anything wrong in this matter I am very willing to apologize to our state Auditor or to the tax payers of the district and I 1 am s sure ure the people of Fruitland believe as I do that the I grader shout left hero ero to keep the road in condition 11 here liere re as I un ua- that the Duchesne end of the road has four or five graders to our one and I am frank to state that if the Governor and state authorities all I want yant that gr grader der and have ve the au aa authority to take it I am not going to hold it and cause a contention but what t I have written above is the thc truth as near as I can relate it Yours fours respectfully J J. J W W. W Rockhill |