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Show CONDEMNATION N 0 T NECESSARY ON TRE ! COT-OFF i I The board of county commissioner have had settled with John A Randall Ran-dall of North Ogden for a right-of-way for the Ogden-Pleasant View-cutoff View-cutoff and the condemnation proceedings proceed-ings will be dismissed. The county; paid Mr Randall $975 for his proper t with the understanding that he I will change the course of the canai I which traverse? the new road. I In the early spring the road will i be macadamised ;nd placed in the j beat of condition. It already has been graded but the commissioner. are of the opinion that it will be I j well to let the dirt surface settle during the winter months before covering it with macadam By ' straightening the canal, which Mr. Randall has agreed to do. the county will avoid the building ol" three bridges which would cost about ?2i" i each The county has agreed, however, how-ever, to build a substantial concrete culvert under the roadbed for the transmission of irrigating water from one pari of Mr. Randalls land to another lying on cither side of the road The cutoff saves a distance of about a mile and a half and it avoids the North Ogden hill, which always has been objectionable to the travel-ei travel-ei through that section of country-It country-It Is 6ald that with this piece of road macadamized the road from Ogden info Box Elder county will be among the very best in the state, in f.irt there could be no better road for all classes of travel. |