Show FACTS AND FIGURES persistent rumors have ben in circulation for the past two weeks to the effect that roose is located in uintah county the object of this falsehood is apparent AS its sole object is to mislead ni the voters of duchesne county into the idea that roosevelt velt is not noi eligible eli gable gabl e to enter the race for county seat of duchesne bounty the facts are arc as follows the longitude of the uintah special meridian from which all special surveys are made as determined ter mined by charles L dubois chief of the bureau of surveys at it washington wast agton by astronomical observation in the field jn in 1876 at which time he executed many of the surveys in this section for the government see U S manual of surveying instructions Instruction si edition of 1902 page 90 is degrees 57 minutes 30 seconds sect t west from greenwich the west boundary of uintah county as given in the compiled r laws of utah 1907 page i see sec is the meridian of 14 wet west longitude it the latitude of roosevelt is 40 degrees 18 minutes 44 seconds econ ds north the length of a minute of ja longitude at this latitude is chahl chair fe from we are able to biake the following computation degrees 00 minutes 00 seconds longitude of east boundary 11 of duchesne county degrees 57 minutes 30 seconds longitude of uintah special meridian ller idian 2 minutes 30 seconds diff difference arence in longitude between east boun iary ary of duehesne county andain and uintah special meridian HOd OOOO equals 25 of longitude then 1 achna chai rife the length of one minute 25 difference in longitude between tiie te two lines 25 1760 plus cli chabis aleis buy 80 22 22 miles agn 1611 16 from which the east boundary of Duche me iTie county is shown to be 22 TOPS miles west of ate he uintah special Werl meridian dian or 2 miles 64 rods west of said line inasmuch as the of the NW of section 22 is the farthest east that the platted portion of rosevelt extends the nearest that it approaches to the past east boundary of duchesne county is rods or more than behalf half mile I 1 invite any other competent civil engineer or professor of mathematics to check the above net and calculations without fear of successful contradiction LET THE TRUTH PREVAIL verv respectfully E F r harmston U S mineral surveyor |