Show M VE GATE ROAD MR MB ROCKWOOD SHOWS IT UP COUNTY abandonment THIC tic PETERSON MORGAN co karch march 1886 or D NOW d k iam vaut a ct 0 in 0 1 I h on IF dur aate t I 1 aj t efi t bone ot of contention and the statement st at e to in the ogden herald of the instant it is easy to charge up an of febi fal ao easy i to I 1 A aar 4 ati 14 perhaps it would bea be as well smell to refer back a few years vears 1 I am credibly inter informed nied that originally mally the road in weber caronto to a pont point below the devils gate was kept up by morgan county during the course 0 of events a location was made avor at or near a point known as THE febles chalu CHAIR at the bead of the horse shot shoe sap posed to ter be adein a vein ot of tin bearing ai ore m at this date of affairs weber county for reasons best known to themselves became anxious to have the line between maraian ud and weber more d definitely g located ami surveyors from morgan 0 agan weber and dal daf vis counties conn tes surveyed bur and located the county L line at the devils chair at AA this time weber eal i aa shoe in repair and until the wash washout but some three years a ago i kept vp up the sane same 1 while the road was impassable inthe in the spring of bishop whitmar had p A valuable mare killed at at this point and ana on OB his application to the authorities ties of weber county for compensation he was informed inform ad that they had bad THE T thib gi I 1 bel believe leie was wad the first intimation of that fact As soon as the high W waters aters subsided theaople people ople of morgan davis andr and wener oun fies donat donated A work and material to the amount of about to k keep ex the road is in A passable condition and have since kept the same dangerously so subsequent to this the county line hoe was relo catesby cat cate edby doby the surveyors of morgan and weber counties the initial point being the devils chal chair r in 1886 a petition was circulated in the sout se uthera herh portion ot signed by over resident taxpayers praying graying the county court to do something on ohp the road I 1 am not aware that any act loft was wd siver ever taken in the matter it t aa isa well authenticated fact that toe the people eople 0 q oj weber chuny ate at weber ati least e one 1 tai of the trav ag he the caHon n and that sald said county receives I 1 I 1 I 1 irom the railroad therein located it is not my desire to cast any undue censure sure on the authorities of that county but this disputed road certainly comes in some county and is a matter that should be seen to at once before some more serious derious accident occurs respectfully i I 1 I 1 0 W i ROCKWOOD |