Delta chief., 1884-04-16
Omeial Proceedings of the County
Comm missiOners.

DELTA, April 4, 1854.
The Board of County Commissioners con-
vened pursuant to adjournment, present. E.
II. Capron, chairman j. b. Hart, I'd dist /;
David Stephens 3rd dist; E. l.. Kellogg
clerk.
The minutes of the last meeting were read
and approved.
Moved and ordered that the road viewers
which were appointed to view the road west
from Delta to Robadoux ford and thence to
the county line be required to make proper
report
Report of the road viewers on road south
from the south end of Main street, of Delta,
McGranahan, r. B. Hamilton, and 8. b.
Crockett be appointed to view and mark out
a road as requested in the petition heretofore
presented, except road from Delta to the d.
L. X. Il. Ky. Co.'S. right Of way, to be 60 feet
wide and forty feet wide along the railway
company's right of way, except where the
viewers deem conformity to the same imprac.
ticable; said viewers to meet at the south end
of Main street. at o'clock A. NJ, April 2lst,
1884. The county surveyor to survey and
plat the same to be filed with and be part
of said report.
AFTERNOON.
Moved and ordered that the report of the
road viewers be approved relative to the road
on section line between Sections 81 and 32,
in r. 15 s. II. 95 w. to the correction line
and the same is hereby declared and to be a
public highway and that the clerk take the
requisite steps for completing the record as
required by law.
TONGUE AND YoUNG's CREEK ROAD
Report of the viewers accepted except as
to the $1,000 for opening the same and ordered
that the road be established according to the
plat of survey submitted with said report by
the county surveyor and ordered that the
clerk make the proper record as required by
law.
DELTA TO SURFACE CREEK.
1t is hereby ordered that road be estab
lished MS surveyed and viewed and marked
out by the viewers appointed to do the same
according to plat of the south line, to the old
Government road near the mouth of Surface
creek and that proper record be made of the
same.
Ordered that the petition for roads east
from Delta be approved except as noted in
the plat filed Herewith, and ordered that the
proper record be made of the same.
Moved and ordered that Henry Stipp be
allowed his fees, which were disallowed, on
an explanation given removing the cause of
disallowance.
Ordered by the board that no certificate be
allowed in the case of the People VS.. w. A.
Hunt.
Proposition of r. Breese read and after
consideration, the same was laid by without
definite action.
be allowed eight hundred dollars per annum,
for the year beginning January LIST, 1884,
payable quarterly in county warrants, as
compensation as clerk of board of county
commissioners and attending to the business Of
the county as required by law.
1t is ordered that VIM. +. johnson and j.
Rollins be allowed $500 each us damages
for road crossing their land and requiring
them to move certain fences and is further
ordered that the county clerk issue warrant
for $500 to the owner of the n. 4. of the
s. L. of Section IL, T. Is S. II. 96 w. on
his granting the right of way for a road as
described by plat filed by the road viewers
on road from Delta bridge to a point on the
Government road near the mouth of Surface
creek.
Ordered that the proposition of r. d. Blair
be accepted and the minutes of the board be
published at each session.
Adjourned to meet April Sth.
APRIL Sth, 1884.
petition was presented and approved to
establish public road from the $. w. corner
of the s. +. of Section "a, I 10 s. II. 96 w.
9th principal meridian eas:, to intersect the
road from Delta to the county line between
Delta and Montrose counties, and the clerk
ordered to make proper record of the same.
1t was moved by David Stephens and Sec
onded by Jno. Hart that the county surveyor
be instructed to survey and plat the road as
viewed from Geo. Fawcett's ranch on North
Fork of the Gunnison river to T.. T. Hotch-
kiss ranch, thence to the upper ford of the
Gunnison river; thence across said ford,
thence down the valley to intersect the road
before established at the northeast corner of
Section IA, T. Is s. Il. 95 W., also the road
viewed from point opposite Geo. Fawcetts
rasch down the south side of the North Fork
of the Gunnison river, crossing and jntersect-
ing the above described road to Delta. APP
proved.
The following bills were allowed: Ken
nicott Bros 1850, Nathaniel Wales $12, c. w.
Shores, Gunnison, $41, b. F. Coleman So, A.
r. King $25, A. X. King Si15, T II. McGran-
ahan $l1.3O, Mrs. ID. e. Yargcr S36, U. l..
Albers, NJ. d. S64, b. s. Gheen 1878, X. NJ.
McMurray s2s, W. +. johnson s25, j. Rol-
lins S25. +. l.. Kellogg $50, f. l.. Kellogg
$50, T.. l.. Kellogg S64, Levi Scheid $42, q.
II. Merchant $50, X. d. Blair sl5, VIM.
Mathers $27O, II. A. Bailey $33, David
Stephens $12i, ]. J. Barker $2s, T. II.
Mower $50, g. A. Purdy $40, +. II. Capron
$33, Henry Stipp $40, Robert Breese $l1.07,
X. X. Thomas $29.25, Geo. A. Stanton So.
It was moved and ordered that the meeting
of the board stand adjourned subject to the
call of the chairman. Il. L. KELLOGG,
Clerk.