| Show VOICES FRON THE TILE PEOPLE A hooper a row few ques alons concerning the cenner roada roads EDITOR HERALD allow me through the columns of your able paper to make inquiry iti As I 1 understand it we have a road commissioner in weber county if so can you or any one else tell mo me what are the tb duties of said officer 0 Is it to locate our bad county etc or is is it only when the inhabitants of some portion of tho the county have realized the need of a road that they can an travel to the capital of the county to pay their county taxes and do their trading etc without being daily threatened with suits at law for traveling somo some road they have traveled for 10 or 14 or more year years because some one hai ha purchased it either from tho government or borne some railroad company or some one else bless you say sone one our county courts are more than willing you should have a county road that is those who want one in this wise let each one on either side of the desired road appropriate the necessary land to make a good road yes eay say I 1 thata all well enough but there is is ono one man ma who has a road ho he says 1 I have bought mine from the railroad another mine is a homestead I 1 have got my patent and it is recorded etc Y ca es as I 1 understand that instrument it tells you you can have and hold it subject to roads ac I 1 would ask are not railroads as well as preemptions preempt ions homestead ac subject to the same easements bays says one 1 I can tall tell how you can get through or around the unwilling one petition the county court yes but the obstinate maa man ma may find out what you are doing doin an and he be also will come to tho the court and enter his protest ae it ii is laid on the table or under it in this wise bays says the county court inthe if the people dont dony want a road wo we dont want them to have one yes but the people do with one or two exceptions well says one there is another chance so fays tho the lawyer thus if there are enough of those that want a road who will club together you employ a lawyer he ire will get arbitrators appointed to condemn the land you pay tho the in money on e y and I 1 bet you get the road and then report progress to the county court oh jes yes then they will send the county surveyor he will measure and take the an angles agles and plat it and so forth and as I 1 suppose until better informed report keport his labors to the road commissioner if aaker to I 1 suppose he lie comes and looks it over pronounces it good and reports to the county court if it is recorded aa as county road all is well provided provid edno no one thinks otherwise but if any one should get up a counter petition with scarcely any one knowing it and get it granted chich has been the case and I 1 know it then the devil is to pay again allow me to ask Is such a road a county road as I 1 have spoken of today to day there are tire only two roads on the west of ogden between tit thy capital and the great salt lake one to west weber and one to the east side of hooper nearly two miles from the center of the latter place in an a almost most impassable in pas zable condition the greatest portion porton of the year will you please tell what the county taxes are for merchants of Og ogden denand and businda bus incas men como came to our aid if you want ua us to como come and trade else more of you I 1 am afraid will have to assign more i 1 in n my next HOOPER may 7 1884 |
