The record-union., 1893-12-08
SHEDS ON COUNTRY ROADS.
They Are Distractions to Some and
Conveniences to Others.
Citizens Living Along the Folsom Road
Testify Before the Board of
Supervisors.

tudt tHey were ODSCrucClOnS TO Cn0 IOdu,
was taken up for hearing.
The room was crowded with citizens
from that portion of the county. some OF
whom had espoused the cause of the petit
tioners, while others were there to testify
that the sheds were not distractions, but
convenience.
The principal mover in the matter of
the petition to have the sheds removed
was Charles Studarus, a well-known
farmer residing near the American River
near Hangtown Crossing. The petition
ers were represented by c. III. Oatman
as counsel and the demonstrators by Jay
X. Brown.
Charles Studarus was the first to be
heard. He testified that the shed at Hang
town Crossing runs out into the road
seven and half feet; that at Patterson's
runs out into the road twenty-five feet: at
Mayhew's the shed and trough take
twenty-three feet and is only ten feet
high; Nliller's takes tnirty-three feet;
Tackney's thirty-nine feet; Mrs. Har-
ney's takes fifty feet and the trough six
feet six inches, taking up the whole Of the
siXty-teet road. The troughs in many of
them are outside of the shed, and teams
are driven on both sides of the trough
drink, blocking the road. Some loads are
thirteen feet high, and the sheds are some
of them not high enough to go under.
The Harney place, being just below the
railroad grade at Brighton, is very dan
gerous one, and as the teams come down
the grade, if anything should give way
the team could not be stopped and Sc
rious accident is liable to occur at any
time. At some OF the sheds it is danger
GUS to go outside on account Of the cOndi-
ton of the road.
At Thirty-first and NJ streets the shed
extends over the whole road. Most Of the
sheds are built so as to extend over the
best graded road. AT Harney's there is
no road outside the shed, except on pri-
vate land; at Miller's the outside road is
impossible with load, and at Tackney's
person is liable to upset with a load.
At Thirtieth street the shed at one time
was so low that when coming to town
with load of hay the shed knocked of
three bales. He complained to the board
and the shed was raised. When the Har-
ney shed blew down he asked to have it
raised higher, but it was not done, and
the shed is not now high enough to drive
high load under.
Charles LOrain sWore that when NOV
ing one-story house, twenty feet wide,
he could not get by the Thirty -first-street
having to saw off one corner, the road not
being wide enough to go outside. With
three bales of hay on the wagon some of
the sheds were too low to pass under,
and the road outside is not in good con-
ditiOn to take a load over. He had sew
erai times found the road blocked by
teams and had to ask the owners to move
them. He moved the house he spoke of
year ago last October, and the new shed
looks wider now than the old one was.
William Bryant said he sometimes
hauled loads four bales high, and had
difficulty in going under some of the
sheds. At the Donovan shed he found it
pretty rough to go on the outside with a
buggy. The shed was blocked with teams
that day.
q. b. Coulter said the Donovan shed
was sometimes blocked up with wagons.
There is a short turn there, with down
grade, and he came near upsetting there
once. 1t is very low. and the road out
side is unsafe with a load. He conSid-
cred it an obstruction.
Henry Kern said he keeps a shed be-
yond Brighton. He used to keep the
Harvey place. The shed was sometimes
blocked and when so, as the descent from
the levee is steep, it was dangerous to
drive outside, as only few drive wagons
with brakes and the outside road is
siding. He thought sheds were an ac-
cOmmodation, il the road outside was
kept in good condition. He had seen
teams come down the grade at Harney's
on run, the driver holding on to the
binding rope with one hand and driving
with the other.
The inquiry was resumed at the after
noon session. j. III. Harlow told how
one day he was hauling a load of
hay, three bales high, when the TOP of
hn of ha
place in attempting to pass under it. He
regarded all such sheds as distractions to
the road. He had never found these
sheds convenience. He had no prediu-
dice against persons simply because they
conducted saloons.
\. Lauridson being called, said he had
travelled the Folsom road for twenty-four
years. He had assisted Mr.. Studarus in
measuring the hight Of sheds along the
road. Some of them are difficult to avoid
with loaded wagons. Especially at the
Harney place it is very bad, for without
a good brake going down the grade a
wagon would be in danger OF turning
over in going around the shed. With the
watering-trOugh the Harney shed covers
nearly the entire width of the public
road. He had seen many loads of hay
four bales high pass along the road. Such
a load on an ordinary wagon could not
pass under shed twelve or thirteen feet
high.
Frequently, he said, the roadway under
the sheds was blockaded with wagons,
forcing men with loads to drive outside.
The sheds had never been any convent
ence to him.
d. w. Taylor, who resides near Hang
town Crossing, said he had seen the sheds
so blockaded that wagons could not get
through and had to turn out. One of the
worst is i'll front of the Donovan place.
Men had told him they could not
get under these shed with a load of hay
four bales high. He considered it a
dangerous place in coming down the
grade with load at the Harney saloon,
outside the Harney watering-trouoh
there is but three feet of the county road
way left.
In travelling the road he had to 90
around all the sheds because they were
blockaded. He had heard Mr.. Patterson
himself complain of the shed in front of
his place being. .blockaded. The sheds at
the Donovan and Harney places he re-
garded as great inconveniences.
William Crewen, who resides near
Hangtown Crossing, had travelled the
road for nine years. He regarded the
sheds as Instructions to the road Some
are difficult to get by with heavy loads,
particularly the one at Donovan and Har-
ney places. He had seen loads of hay on
the road four bales high. Outside the
sheds 1t is usually muddy caused by
water from the troughs.
John Studarus, Jr., said he had shed
at Hangtown Crossing which protrudes
e, ont a. i