Show facts concerning the county line in I 1 s 0 malicious Malici pus persons thinking to check the people from voting for roosevelt forthe county seat of the new county are actively circulating the story that roosevelt oo sevelt in not in wasatch c county bounty and therefore cannot be the county seat of duchesne co county anty here are the facts in the matter read these and be your own judge of the question in 1876 chas L dubois an engineer in the government service and now and for a number of years past chief of the bureau of su surveys of the general land office at washington D C established the uintah special meridian after establishing his base mr dubois made an astronomical observation cal calculated calculate culat ed the longitude of he uintah base meridian to be 57 30 west longitude this calculation has stood without question from 1876 to the present time being the base used by the government in the general land office at washington and by all government engineers in their employ to this present date in 1880 the territorial legi legislature of utah created uintah county of the eastern portion of wasatch county and established as the line dividing the two counties the meridian of west longitude the exact point of this meridian was not at that time established nor has it ever been established other than by calculating the difference in time from the uintah base meridian at the time of creating uintah county it was knan that this line passed thru the uintah indian reservation and as no white people could live in the reservation and no one living there could be taxed the exact point where the line of the two counties divided was of little consequence and was not worried over the outside foundries boun dries of the reservation had been very verb plainly marked by stone momi bonu ment county taxed the property ty within their respective lines up to these reservation monuments and bothered no auf further with the territory within those boundaries at the opening of the reservation in 1905 this of course was all changed lands within the reservation were homesteaded homestead ed and the homesteaders had personal property to tax the question of just where theline the line should be was then considered conse dered not however until the arg spring of 1907 was the question bately settled when the county commissioners of wasatch county asked mr ed FH armston at that time a deputy U S mineral surveyor and one of the most competent engineers in the auntry to definitely defina tely figure out and establish this line between uintah and wasatch counties that no disputes might arise between them taking mr dubois calculation mr harmston figured that if the uintah special base meridian was at 57 30 west longitude the meridian of west longitude wo would uld be 2 30 west of this or as near as could be approximate approximated 2 15 1 5 miles west of the uintah special meridian this was accepted by wasatch county as final and uintah county also accepted the established line and from that time to the present no word of complaint has been raised by either county the only parties by the way competent to raise the question at all the law provides see sec comp laws 1907 when ever any dispute or uncertainty shall arise as to any county boundary the same may be determined by the county surveyors of the counties interested and in case they fall fail to agree or otherwise fall fail to establish the boundary the board of county commissioners of either or both counties interested shall engage the services of the state engineer who with the aforesaid county surveyors or either of them if but one appears for that purpose all having received idue due and proper notice shall proceed forthwith to permanently permanent Iv determine such boundary line by making the necessary surveys and erect erecting inz suitable monuments to designate said boundaries which shall be deemed permanent until superseded by legislative enactment now there was never a dispi dispute uta as to the boundary but there was uncertain ity to settle this uncertainty taint Y the services of df i mr harmston were called in his hia decision was accepted and there has hag never been any dispute or uncertain ity of theline the line since the county line between the two counties is 2 15 1 5 miles west of the uintah special meridian this line runs straight thru the country from north to south parabell ing it there is scarcely a mile in the whole line that cannot be readily located line thus established has become permanent by ack in both counties by usage and custom and ca c cf A only be changed by act of the legislature both counties tax the property to this line from either side service in criminal and civil actions have for more than seven years been determined by this line school districts have bonded their respective districts to this line and the line has been so established that no court would dare to change the same A change in the line at this time would be so far reaching that no one could predict the results both district school bonds and high school bonds would be effected trials settled for years might easily be again opened and no end of trouble expense and litigation ensue but who is Relt agitating atin th the question at this time and why 1 is it being done small people who to make political capital out of the present fight for the location of the county seat are the agitators to frighten the people that votes maybe may be taken from roosevelt and cast for others of the candidates for the county seat is the motive but what grounds have they for their contention this much the meridian of west longitude the imaginary line so broadly designated by the territorial legis j lature as the line between the tw counties has hag never been established As heretofore set forth mr dubois established the uintah special meridian as being 57 30 west longitude and this has stood and is still sta standing riding officially as the base from which all calculations are figured during the summer of 1914 this past summer a corps 0 government of engineers engin eeris work ing thru the country established a triangulation point just west of the uintah river this point differs about a diute in longitude from that established by duboise r figuring the meridian of west longitude from this triangulation point would place the same about one mile farther west than the county line has been established and would throw a portion of the town of roosevelt within uintah county that is all there is to this talk of roosevelt being in uintah county do you suppose the agitators of myton who have sprung this question believes that the setting up of a stake by a government engineer willup will upset an established used and understood der stood line of seven years standing are these same agitators willing to loose near an hundred square miles of territory to the new county simply to draw a few votes from roosevelt are they willing to take the chances of their own school district bonds being questioned and of their own town being brought within a mile or so of the county line for the sake of gaining these few votes cotest we do not think so they are not in earne earnest st they art simp simply I 1 Y playing politics they would fight to retain this terri tory just as readily as we would but suppose we accept this stake driven by the government engineers as being correct and move our county line to corres pond with the same what guarantee have we that another set of engineers will not come along next sea season and change again a mile or two none in the least the county line has bee established by law by custom and usage nothing but an act of the legislature can change the same then again under the law the county must make the complaint the county government must raise the dispute neither wasatch county nor uintah county has raised the question Is the new county going to raise a question that if carried out as these agitators auld have us believe would dismember I 1 her and rob her of valuable territory terr terri itry tiT Roose veltis within duchesne county roosevelt is I 1 bif n the county seat fight to win I 1 because of all the candidates in the fight she di deserves diser serves vea to win vi n do not let this bluff of not being in the county swerve you from your choice your vote will be honestly counted and you will have the satisfaction of having voted for the winning town if roosevelt is not in the new nev county the county high school was never legally established if roosevelt is not in duchesne county then you have no duchesne county coti fity for her vote was the largest cast for its creation do you not see the complications you raise in this question then know this that the question has no merit that it is being agitated for effect only and that the very agitators know the territory they would wrest from the new county cannot be taken from her for her rights in this case are secure |