Show THE BOUNDARY LINE DISPUTE this boondry line dispute is really becoming more amusing than ehan interesting when such men as M M smith la lay ny down the law in emphatic lan language guage one acquainted with the situation would conclude thac surely the people were in u utter t t er d dark ark need of wisdom in f fact a e t hi his s instruction n st is verily wisdom it ness brother dr 0 ther smith never instructs unless t there h ere is great need of wisdom in part his instructions is verily wisdom itself in the last issue of the myton free press this duchesne sage this morality builder gives forth utterances that demand attention inspire respect aye such utterances itte tAte rances that the attorney gen eral and the state engineer and the judges themselves should sternly inspect the deep learning placed before the people one wonders how duchesne people people could have such an educated man such a learned observer such a deep thinker in their midst and not more emphatically recognize him this man smith would be a good distri district ci ju judge dge or perchance he would b be e a good caridi candidate for a socialist democratic republican progressive for governor smith is comprehensive hence it would be unfair to confine his services service s to one ofie party smith says that the state engineer cannot do i anything else than place the b boundary on the meridian where I 1 it t has always 1 been says he he thinks the free press editor is a sort of dunce in even supposing that this county boundary could be any other place than the fivek goe so far as to say that this meridian is the shortest line between the two poles great dope eh 11 smith likes to be educational this erudite smith says that the is the line and that thai all others are imitations As smith and such as he need a little eighth grade training as a foundation for something better lets propound a hypothetical case viz suppose S smith mith bought forty acres from adek io ck pope taking a warranty deed and recording the same suppose si smith built a house on it known to be near the line and later found to be entirely on rocks land suppose that both men had for a series of years regarded the as line as correct but which in reality was wrong would it not be a fact that smith could obtain a deed for the land for t the h e entire strip providing he had u used s d it had claimed it had had possession of it for a sufficient TIME in this boundary trouble many seem to ignore the element of time for all practical purposes the lines established by dubois in 1876 have been recognized and a lar large e part of the land in the ba basin sin has been surveyed transferred and taxed according to the dubois survey more than eight years ago wasatch and uintah counties established the bou boundary andary assuming that dubois was right as recorded in the U SM immanuel S manuel of surveying the highest authority then and now recently and in fact several years ago we are told other government engineers 19 observed and triangulated etc though for what purpose we are not told and estimated that the I 1 I 1 othmas was not where dubois figures would place it from our information the result of careful enquiry even these recent surveys have not all agreed these surveys have not been official in any sense and they have not been made for the purpose of changing in lines or for any practical use connected with our local affairs our attorney general takes the view that the legislature and the constitutional convention in indicating the as the boundary intended only what was us theire re carded as the hoth meridian such a h high alf authority as the chief of the field division of the government located at salt take lake mr heindrichs I 1 says isaas that the geological surveys will not and cannot change the survey made by the public land department or what is known as the public survey survay I 1 the statute of limitations must always be e recognized because it ft is is RIGHT that it should be this doctrine permeates our law to a great extent regardless of where the is astronomically trono for the present purpose it is where dubols duboise Du boisa 5 figures placed it L |