Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1907-05-24
COMMISSIONERS
PROCEEDINGS

Board of County Commits. toner's,
May 18th, 1907.
The full board of commissioners
OF Lincoln county, State of Id no,
met this day with the clerk of said
SOard, in regular session.
In the matter of the Railroad
company opening up parts of the
right-of-way OF the Minidoka
and Southwestern railroad on
the Minidoka irrigation tract
and using the same for 2 public
highway, it appearing to the board
that at certain points the public
have found it advantageous to use
for roads certain strips of the right
of way and that it would be very
expensive to the county to construct
a suitable wagon road off the said
right of way on account of TIE deep
borrow pits left by the Reclamation
Service; and it appearing further
that said railroad company is will
ing to enter into an agreement
with the county whereby said com
psny agrees to permit the use of
portions of their right of way; ] It is
therefore ordered that an agree
ment be entered into with the
Minidoka and Southwestern Rail
road company whereby the follow
Ing portions Of said right of way
axe to be opened for travel, to-wit:
Commencing at a point in the CEN
ter line of the main track of the
Mind ka and Southwestern Rail
road $50 feet southwesterly meas
ured along said center line from its
intersection with the north line of
Section IA Township 9, S. r. "a,
E. B. NJ. thence southwesterly at
right angles to said center line of
main track 20 feet to the point of
beginning; thence continuing south
easlerly on the same line 80 feet
to a point in the south right OF way
line of said railroad: thence south
westerly along said right of way
line 615 feet; thence northwesterly |
at right angles to said right OF way /
line 30 feet; thence northeasterly |
at right angles to last course 61J !
feet to point of beginning.
Also, strip of land commencing
at a point in the center line of said
main track 44.2 feet northeasterly |
along the said center line from its
intersection with the. south section
lije of section 10, Township 10,
south, Range % East, Boise Me
ridian; thence northw esterly at
right angles to the center line of
said main track 20 feet to the point
of beginning; thence continuing
northwesterly along the same line
3qfeet to a point in the north right
of way line of said railroad thence
northeasterly along said north right
of way line $50 feet; thence south
easter at right angles to said
right of way line 80 feet; thence
southwesterly at right angles to
last course $50 feet to the point of
beginning.
The agreement signed by both
parties is to be kept on file in the
clerks Office.
A petition was presented to the
board asking that T. P. Darr be
as constable of Gooding
precinct which was granted and he
was duly appointed by the board
and his bond approved
The petition of w. H Baugh and
others requesting that Joe Bonar
be appointed as overseer of road
district No. 1 was presented and it
is hereby ordered that Joe Bonar
is appointed as overseer of road
district No. l, and his bond is APP {
prov d.
The claim of l. H. Lounsbury J
for supplies furnished to county
poor at Minidoka, considered by
the board at its last session was re-
considered and an additional sum
Of 1880 allowed thereon.
The claim of William H. Barry {
for,road work at Shoshone Falls in {
theamount of 1882 was allowed I
on the Road and Bridge Fund.
The claim of Guy Worden for
road work in the amount of $500
was allowed on the Road and J
Bridge Fund.
The board adjourned until 10 a. I
N tomorrow. 7
Eighth day of session, May IA,