The morning call., 1894-11-19

tablished thoroughfare in that region since
1866, for the reason that it is the only road,
airline or otherwise that does not require
an actual climbing of the clouds 10 get
over the ground. 1t is claimed as lawful
highway under United States patent to
the old San Miguel Rancho. of which the
property in question is part. w. Denvi r,
president of the Eureka Valley Improve :
ment Company. and S. Wyatt. me mber
of the same organization, assert that the
thoroughtare known as Cfrbett road is
bona -hde affair and cannot be nbliterated
by Mr.. FitZhugh or any other surveyor.
So far as contractor Buckman's failure
to carry out his contract is concerned, Mr..
Denyir said yesterday:
1T is all due to Surveyor FitZhugh's
laundering. Corbett road is fifty feet
wide, no more and no less Some time
ago we petltioned the Board Of Supervisors
for survey of the lines and grade of the
road. The Supervisors granted $500 for
the work of surveying-Mr. Fitzhugh hav-
ing asserted that it could not be done for
less We'll, he was paid that amount and
proceeded to fix the lines according to the
generally accented direction OF that thor
oughfare's course. He was paid his
money for the work done-S1500 in all
and subsequently, Mr.. Buchanan was
awarded the contract for opening and
grading the road. The statement that he
did $500 worth of work is not true. He
did not more than 800 worth and that was
from Clara avenue westward to the depth
of one lot
ION this lot." MIR. Denvir went on, sis
where Buckman's trouble began. 1t is
claimed as the property of Behrend Joost
and is ffty-siX feet in width. Mr. Joost
claims that Corb EFT road can take a width
of twenty-five feet only. running westward
through his lot, while we claim that the
aforesaid road must be fifty feet. Thus in
stead of a strip three feet wide on each
side of the road on his lot Joost claims
fifteen feet and sixteen feet respectively.
1t was on this claim that he put up stop
fences at each end of his lot and forbade
the contractor 10 tear them down and go
on with the work.
''Now," Mr.. DeEvir continued, ''if Mr..
FitZhugh had asserted and main tanned the
lines that he had surveyed, and for which
he was paid $500. there could have been
no such trouble. The idea of him saying
that there is no such thorOughfare as
Corbett road is absurd. Ever since 1866
or 1867 it has been the only outlet from
that part of the town. There is no other
possible way of getting to or from that
section of the city, because the hills are
too steep, and people cannot travel on the
clouds or the togs. The contract as let to
buchanan extended from Clara avenue to
Cassell street, a distance of about 1000
feet ana this was right on the lines as sur
veyed aud staked out by Mr.. Fitzhugh."
Mr. Denvir says he owns one house and
lot on the lines of the road which are
worthless so far as market value or an in
come are concerned. because inaccessible
10 the outer world owing to the denial of
the right 10 the thoroughfare over the dis
puted road.
The topography of the country in the
disputed district is hilly, and still worse
than that The only natural road or pass
age around the hill Is That known as Cor
bait road, and any other thoronghfare
would cost enormous amounts of money
to build and maintain.
S. Wyatt is one of the property-owners
in that section who feels that much de-
ponds on the present controversy. In
conversation on the subject yesterday, he
said:
eff there is no such public thorough fare
as Corbett road | don't know where we
are at 1t always has been considered a
road, and several homes depend for their
very existence on its being open. There
is only one way for the road TO run from
Seventeenth street to Cassell street and
that is from the corner of Douglass street
diagopallv across three lots belonging to
Behrend Jo0St, thence across Clara avenue
through the length and breadth OF fourth
lot belonging TO Mr.. Joost, which is the
place where Contractor buchanan was at
work when he gave up the job.
In any case. no matter what Is the exact
status If The Corbett road on the map or
the face of the earth, the plating of the
city in that vicinity is in a badly mixed
state and there is a painful uncertainty
about streets, alleys and ways of ingress
and apreSs