Show BOUNDARY A UNE LINE E TO BE E SETTLED r B I 1 B ao SOON it is creating quite a and it behooves the salt lake officials to get busy unless uintah county officials who recently requested time in which to gather additional information in the uintah duchesne county boundary dispute submit it at once action in the matter will be taken according to a statement made today by C J ullrich assistant state engineer telegraphic advice to this effect has been sent to charles D demoisy e county attorney at ve vernal r location of the boundary line between the two counties is is assuming much greater import importance arce every day and has grown into a larger task than was at first anticipated while the state engineer and the attorney general have op opinions regarding the proper location location of 0 the boundary both admit that probably litigation will result from any decision they may give both counties have assessed the strip of territory in question and since it is ons one of the richest parts of the uintah basin including much of the business section of the city of roosevelt Ps cs well as the choicest of the adjacent agricultural land both counties are preparing to make every possible effort ort to obtain the iho territory state engineer W D beers is ot hie flie oil opinion nion that the matter should bs be settled in court buti but te sees no way ay in which it may I 1 ruch p before 1 I decision have been n ivan n af ter the he decision either county may protest the dac decision ision in the courts or both counties may proceed to collect taxes and the property prop propel eity ty owners refusing to pay may oppose in the courts the sale of their property as delinquents the state engineer is inclined to tg believe that before the matter can be definitely settled a new survey of the section will have to be made and an official location of the loth meridian made by the united states geological survey which was not made for the purpose of land division the engineer is of the ion on that the law would not uphold him in taking 2 from his appropriation an amount amount of money sufficient for paying for such a survey if the state will not pay f for or it the counties in question would be obliged to do so this lie he it thinks hinks will probably make the counties less desirous for a hasty decision abe question of the boundary arose out of rivalry between roosevelt and myton at the renit fi fight lit for the county seat myton insisted that roosevelt lay in uintah county just at t that timp of the fight the first survey of tile the vernal quadrangle avas w s issued which placed roosevelt in uintah county on this pretext tax officials of that county ti assessed the strip of property 4 including j rici roosevelt ch chests vs T county people are nov dichting fich pectin ting to maintain it deseret news |