Show A about the revenue rich I 1 r f county should have by jamis james walton there i is nn an question ploll which I 1 damre levins to W tile people of idich county and tilt Ui lionly jonly only answer that can bt bit gly given ell iu III of ittel I 1 county is action und and not words suell such ua as I 1 lan dealing anit NOW the dueis tion is iii simply ehly ari the of joiny to for aw tic of bf derived from taxes that js la by all law lav wit reason it ason thulah thu ans lih f he lattur latter s islo rut oui by tin the illde indis z pacts now the following tol luins j 1 H a brief of what 1111 4 bevia ln vin 1 conf the find and the that fullow cd t I 1 in 11 18 91 t 11 01 artile of tin stajl of utah iva wi by at a cum li littee 1 l by thet eners there were writt eif into 11 law t thu lie y atiles ol of tit counties and i was acael ullon by tile thu a of tills this tafv and a ildea law the hu changing tf lf ta line which ea can 11 only lit bo by counties concern ed 01 the writer of 0 this hig article calleri calle ii the attention attrition of the iho I 1 lute te K N willton walton then state savator of this di i triet to tha thelah law da ining rich count 1 and not the obvious of using tb alx word cast when the word Nv niesi wc esi si should have libien fad fwd and thu cau ing in the s that now exist lif in tile lille making it ible to tl lu sun eyed or i thus leaving rich county without aitho t n line froni frain Wi biatch atch station tt talu lu lillta this matter was up 11 ll by it a rot for nm mer cepres of RINI county Cou uty i mr arch N alio aio was sue cisi ful get fc tillit u loll bill till tit th legIs legislature laWre mid lie laine tl nou ij ii fault of if ills III ant through tIro an n 1 foreid by the f th un file way was which 1110 1 coul coin 4 lustily ruled i hihi I 1 lit hii I 1 1 i the ii bill bUt changed the 4 from anit h iw sor 1 i rall fallry ry tile at a f baitch 41 nU ii fu 0 a S se section atlon i orner onier 0 t 0 fe fret t to li the th vist cst to li the wyo wio ming staw lint line helni it antil oil t d i town lot summit county iv pity 01 er terel satir kic ii county in ill tale district coi court bif f county an mul d filed a 1 laii ln lly Ii compla tut desk the country tin tilt line in ill in bues tion to ll 11 fix the live five and it muia east i ast of wn wit fatch and si a watershed one mile east etis t of Wa station ution st thus tuk ing advantage ol of tile word east Oi which s should hould iava q lie tiffie e 11 west thil establishing it 11 waters lica one mile eni eat en i of if Iva station and n 1 six AX milt milts s east V in balet file line leave ilic watershed led one olic nille litile west ut of wa itch t 1 bears tie lis louth to tilt north s hh of 00 railroad r thelic northeast to alic tit aaa tho ol of wasatch station tion thence tl unco i tho side ot of the railroad ralli oad at bilat point alne east cast to the st slite ito line county filed a demur to countes Coun Coul tys itys complaint which A was IS sustained ile nce the staten jents i in in the countes Com Count itys ss complaint misstating the facts f its t t to 0 w where I 1 bere iere the alic watershed and the is wua carried u p 1 to the supreme Sn court anil and there 11 stati stands un dispute d the lenaur carri can led col it up ill to tit hie supreme court elti nil all tho the misstate indents in Skin complaint ahli of course could nut not ile be viewed otherwise than facts the supreme court could tinly only pass on tile the merits of tile cale a ai wt set forth in countes Coun tys coni plaint thu the court having il lo op power ower to cof consider isider the merits of 0 tile the iise case otner other than sel bot forth in fit said complaint and in support of the contention of ift county countes s case sederal sev cral ea chapm cesi were cited dealing with tho ali 0 lines ionea iu in the southern part of the state which have no healing on oil tile ot of rich countes Coun tys ase rase c and the following ol lowins quotations from thir their c aln fill q ioala me to believe that eliat they were not wholly in ili the dark as a to the true merits of the cast case tiles my 1 we do not attempt cosay to say where line leauco tho abe Wyon ling state line or whore where it bitsi the north side of railroad but from the sufficiency of the complaint which stands ed 01 it Is tile the north side of the railroad forms all the line file between summit and rich county comity for a distance ance lof of live anil awn senthi miles bear in ili mind that decision wag waa based on the deney clency of the complaint and not on oil the merits of the case and thus was wall defeated the just ind and honest contention of rich onney now a brief statement of the legiel side of if the question fir art q tho the statutes are 0 only field notes that ear car be bv a surveyor fl inning a boundary bonn dary olary line dine or county now wo we find in tile the statutes a definitely fixed point tile the truth and evidence of which cannot lie questioned that point 14 at a sumi summit nit ly by websters dictionary us its thu the highest Ioli point it that of it 11 watershed the highest point reached by a rajil ra road the question ut at aie Is where the alie north side 0 of lathe the ad crosses tilt the summit lt and its it a side an and d as to that point webster says that the word side means ns the sides oi of it 11 nam from its s center i i the sides tit of in ili angle the 6 sildo i lee r of j f a river the ide oi u railroad which that thal t question lon the statutes ly Wasa Vit satch teli station is an n the mid thol railroad crosses it at livit point ilia the wasatch station Is ia dellie 1 l b by tilt the union pacific railroad as aa next to alie highest paint reached by the t bv au U P the highest be ill tny at n four foin hundred miles eust bast of Wa wasatch station and ana those thase t wol heing the two highest be alvin and Oin siim the railroad survay cims wasatch Wasat cli station sixty four t wt feet higher than ile beair ar river rive r a and nd dred and twenty foot feet hegber il ahin river the statutes all llie liin file in question quest lon between ind idich county sf arting arcin fa a boint it on oll tho the I 1 north side of tile it crushes the summit first west of bein river valley separ ath 1 s 7 ali wit rs of if tue the weber from the waters af alear river and from PIA t iii chant lait li it sw goes dire directly etly east to the al i state line tho the statutes also ily ay that the line rt inning west from rom ahr stute e line starts dir directly oatly vast f und 1 runs directly wt west to that point that point is tilt question ht at issue summit minty county fixes that point nearly seven miles east of wasatch Wasi itch station a point near age from the watershed nom six to ten tell miles west fornis forms ir a stream that during the month of may would tit at liouns swim it lip liqing tse summit lt onty conty 4 cun contention huy basi nothing to support U ait tho the of the one word j ant aku secure 0 taja the taxes on thi railroad their surveyor rum a line file fiam one mc mile fast east of wasatch station aloni along the north I side ide of the hie railroad lall niad a summit where thi re Is 14 none lione to ile be found until it ren readies clies the W i state line file within a few hundred feet the writer ila lias some same knowledg knowl edRe e of surveying ili himself lind and will say that no surveyor yr or that ever noted through it a tee telescope scope can call run the lie disputed line lifie na as it is aday no mail nicil or surveyor an find a 1 AVasa wn sat ill tolt an and tation ration thih ll line cau cachot ot b he donned leI SQ so long ions asi the one N word oril east A anial I 1 I 1 on oil the ista lutc book remove that word alone and you do not have to 10 substitute file word wora west just eliop op it ont all and any man mail that lias has tiny any o of surveying can call define dealue it 11 within an inch leave it as it is mid we have no line the law laa says ays that wherever icer guch uch mistakes are found they can call be removed romu vei just so long ions wi ai it 11 does not destroy the intent of the il briw W in this ills case C tile intent of the defining tills line Is p 1 a I 1 I 1 alad ind 11 linof id ed for it Is ii supported liy by facts that cannot lie be tsuei alond or ir understood misunderstood ills the kotlier r defense as put up by summit county are yon have slept ou oil your rights lights you have had your aline in court your latches are clo td tile the stil supreme ireine coat has rul ed d adint you iou those statements deny rich county si at line it aej dot nut not give us that which the file constitution of this state sits we are entitled to some say we have ho remedy but my opinion I 1 is though I 1 may be wrong won that thera the e Is a remedy under t the he I 1 law all and an iii immediate c orie one and it is this manaus the state engineer if tie refuses to deale it and irce force him under the law to use the statutes atutes bt its aa hs his held field notes and not the field notes oi of the summit county surveyor and ana perform aci form his duty under the law pertaining to its his office and eliminate that one word east chichis wh chis wholly in fit ills power to do and the fact code commission iniss fou has no other remedy but to pass it ill up to the legislature and they arta are under obligations to remove the existing quest forin ol 01 of blunda bounda ri lines between summit and rich counties mr talked bani hammered merell and battled his lill through the alie urt un constitutional oil en its face also our present member of the legislature lesl slature put his bill 1111 over in the house hy by a large majority and again through no fault pf af his big it lodged in the t committee of the senate and held there by pressure of more important busl busi n ass to he be attended to fixed time for abich w baeb was the disposal of nn an appropriation bill in evolving nn an outlay of oc twenty million dollars it was stated by a 11 very yonaton yona tOT that it th the bill i could be g gotten Ue before folie the se senate pate hs ha could pa pass it in fifteen wi minu tea there endi the last effort of rich county now my question isi is are tl the c people of klch felt county gollip to cea ceist w in their efforts in this or quit the light in col lellis on I 1 will say though this has no bearing on the issue under 1 discussion icus sion slon or its legality but reflects strongly on the liard hard luck tory employed in complaint settin forth the ibe In injustice justl of depriving one of 0 their districts iab of its revenue the school in the ment ionel in their complaint was by top fit writer some years ago and lie found lust jugi seven pupils therein Is not summit cou county nty able to supply the loss of an revenue sufficient to maintain such a school when it bas a taxed valuation ns as follows fillips six reptilian railroad one no hundred and thirty five six FO and other property about six m mallon illon hii t epra acomparo comparo pare the olf ference between that and idt countes Coun tys revenues rich Coin tys asbed valuation Is 1 just list three of bums and not one shig single e mile of rall ral eallond lond alsid taxed in the county count and site she ha suffered the los of the revenue on and seven tenths miles mile 4 of raiyond rai rond bri bringier brint nginr nr in a revenue of f sixteen dollars a year to tn summit county for a period of thirty years or more mor tn in view of tap fore eoina fiets r arc jhc the people of rich county going to submit to such an injustice |