| Show MUCH OF CITY'S PROPERTY NEARLY LOST BY NEGLECT Special Attorney Finds About Pieces of Land Encroached hed On O IF t two to 0 hundred R of oC prop prop- S hundreds of oC valuable alu O ort orty Involving In able acres which h the tile city owns but which aro are under encroachment or adero adverse ad- ad verse ero claim through h neglect In the tue past lIa have lIae e been and amI preliminary prelim mInar m- m Inar inary steps have hae been t taken leen to r remove o mo all clouds from their title This Is information that comes come from Crom tho thio office of tho land and water at attorney at- at torney r. r who has been specially employed em em- weeks b by the tiac city ed for or a few eW to take legal Hg steps st ps to clear the titles water rights which to city citi land and amI checked and have not bc beon on properly cared for tor in tho thac pa past t of ot those these lands The greatest acreage is on tho the watersheds of ot the canyon districts district thou though h pieces aggregating been found In Inthe Inthe inthe OO or 01 acres cres een the city and on the tile edges 8 These pieces have been encroached upon and ami V ome have lue been HI upon a and anil andall nil all adversely erech claimed h by ly squatters Attorney 1 V. H H. who ho I Is in checking up up all nfl tithe Is not prepared Jo to make public a list of or tho the lands land he has discovered th the thA city was VAS about to and possession lose iose adverse ad through encroachment roen tH bu but t declare t that t SuzIe suno have been discovered things astonishing the amount of or land red ered relative t to existence and owned h by tho the city 0 the was not known known- which o n ownership of riot not even suspected This Is the fl first Jut t time Jn ira tile tho history of Lii city It J JI said ald I 1 that a s Itom 3 Column 1 Continued c on rat Page MUCH OF CITY'S I PROPERTY NEARLY I lOST BY NEGLECT t Special Attorney Finds About t Pieces of Land LandI Encroached On I it I Continued from Page lagA 1 t. t I RUe Accounting of ot the city's holdings holding In lands and nd water rights has bee been ff attempted While it is 18 being l seed erd e d that considerable land has be been 7 lost Jost beyond redemption much other othe k f land Jand Is being unearthed In time t to tot t say save It t to the city It Is d declared clard The attorney found upon studying r Rome some old records and a recent abstract of nf elt city prop property rt that the city owns ons a R- lat laige laig ge piece of ot property on the north benth back of ot City cemetery It was WI found that someone was trying to dr dry f farm rm the place and was wae making com corp corp- p piet piete et use of It as private prop property rt I In tnt numerous Instances It hll has been ben found lound it is said that fences have been i edged over o from private nto property onto ell city land until In years rears of ot time large I strips of ell city land have been added to private ate property and the alt city was In a J. J fair way to lose title tithe through h ne neglect lect s n. to keep I up the surveys and m maintain Y r f- f Fire Site Io t. t In another instance It was as found that a piece of or a block not ver very valuable valuable alu able but secured lonG lone ago altO to be eventually f used for tor a tire fire station lo location Jo- Jo cation Atlon on the west vest side aide was completely com corn and Irrevocably Irre lost lot to the city 3 through the fact act that some son city attorney A. A nO ne ney having ha no knowledge that the property belonged e to the time city officially I disclaimed It on behalf of or the city thus donating It to private ownership Another tract of land out toward Parleys Parley canyon canon arid and sonic some forty tort acres acre in e extent t nt was lost In itt the same a way wa No o one knew It Is said that the city had bad more than a t. t canal right light of or way R through h the property The rest of oC It r r. r was as disclaimed and subsequent efforts I if to recover reCO It failed railed In the courts J t It has been discovered that tha In City t Creek Creck can canyon on alon along Canyon Canon road rond th the I nt dt has lost host considerable property through the fact that people lived HYe on onIt It Jt fur for thirty or forty Crt years without the thep ther r p city dt ever e knowing the property belonged be- be belonged longed to It I Where here encroachments are arc found and J adverse erse claims are discovered ered surest surveys sur t are being made b by the city In r lion for tor suits where the trespassers sers or will not relinquish the the theland land without le legal al proceedings |
