Ogden Weekly Standard | 1905-12-22 | Page 6 | Reservoir Scheme Upset

SCHEME avi vv i PETITION TO COUNTY COMMIS stoners IS WITHDRAWN opposition of ogden valley effective in preventing building of dam from tuesdays standard K W wade local agent of the light and hallway company appeared before the boar dof county commissioners this morning and withdrew the petition of that company to change the rodice of the county road in ogden canyon to penult of the building of a large reservoir tor power and irrigation purposes in withdrawing the petition mr wade said that his company while anxious to go ahead with the tion of tha lam did not car to do so in opposition to the wishes of th people of abden and tho ralley and as the freeholders of the abden district in which ohp proposed change was to be made had shown that they were greatly opposed to the changing of the route of the county rod it had been decided to withdraw the petition in granting the request of mr wade to withdraw the petition each of the commissioners said that they regret ted the stand that the residents resi dens of edan had taken as they believed that the building of the dam would have been a good thing for the county at the meeting this morning eren petition were received by the corn asking hat they refuse the petition of he utah railway company four of the petitions against the proposition came from the residents of the third ward of off den and one each from eden liberty and each of the petitions had a number of depte seating the property holdena in he different districts and mr waa bid that it was because of these petitions abat his co copany had decided to let the matter drop commissioner andsen to whom hart been the petition pati tion of a wim ber of residents 0 te county aih ing that the commissioners a bounty on muA rats that in his opinion and in diw of th un pleasant experience abat th had had in the matter of bounties the question of granting the be considered by the board tha report was adopted and ohp granting of the petition was under consideration the remainder 0 th tt orning slon was spent in heating the report of the commissioners in d to th different districts and an adjournment was taken until this afternoon