The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-05-29
EXPENSE BILLS OF
CIRCUIT COURT PAID
w. T. KNAPP ROAD ALLOWED IF
PETITIONERS PAY DAMAGES
TO LANDOWNERS
offlcial Proceedings Of County Court

Adjourned Session, May "a, 1909.
In the matter of the T. NJ. Gilmor,
road:
ordered that said road be allowed
and opened for public travel ac
cording to survey thereof.
In the matter of the Petition of w
l.pp and others praying for the
location of county road
NOW on this 9TH day of May, 1909
Is Llatter comes regularly on tc
De heard upon the second reading
OF the viewers report, and also
upon the remolstrance against the
said petition, filed herein by c R.
Elliott and Others, as we'll as upon
uhe affidavits and request that
names be stricken from the peti.
ton and remonstrance duly filed
herein, and the court having duly
considered the matter of striking
names from the petition as well
as from the remonstrance and the
affldavits file1 in support thereof
by the respe tive petitioners and
demonstrators, and the court be-
ing fully advised in the matter
find that upon the petition praying
Tor the location of said road there
remains eighteen freeholders resid-
ing in the said road district who
are qualified petitioners for said
road, and that upon the said remon-
STRANGE there remains fifteen quail.
fled demonstrators, who are freehol.
ders residing in said road district,
and that therefore the said remoa-
STRANGE is insufficient to deprive
the court Of jurisdiction in the mat
Ter of allowing said petition.
1t further appearing from the read.
ing Of said viewers report that
said report is favorable to the es.
tabllshment of said road and it's
establishment recomm ended by said
board of viewers, and is as follows,
to-wit:-
To the Honorable County Court;
We the undersigned board of
county road viewers, appointed by
the honorable court, to view. sur
vey and lay out a county road as
prayed for in the petition of w. T.
Knapp and others, beg leave to
report:
That pursuant to said order we
met at the beginning of the pro
posed road on the 9th day of
April. 1909, the same being the time
and place fixed by said order for
the meeting of the undersigned
board of county road. viewers and
TOOK to our ASST stance N. w. Own-
bey and s. p. Miller as chain bear
ers and A. G. Rambo as marker,
and proceeded to view, survey and
lay out said road as prayed for in
said petition, as near as in our op.
inion a good road can be made at
a reasonable expense, taking into
'nsideration the utility, conven-
ience and inconvenience and ex-
pense which will result to in.
dlVlduals as well as the
public, If such road shall, be estab-
lished and opened.
The said road was surveyed under
our directions, and the same was
conspicuously marked throughout
the corners and distances thereon
noted, and all trees on the line of
said road were marked on each of |
the sides thereof corresponding
with the direction of said road. with
three notches cut through the bark
and one inch into the wood, and
all trees adjacent to the said line
OF said road were plainly blazed
on the side facing said road. The
beginning and termination of said
road and the termination of each
mile and intermediate points have
been marked in the manner pro.
vided by law, as will more fully !
appear by the certified return of
the survey Of said road, which is
hereunto attached and made q part
of this report.
That In our opinion the said pro.
posed road shoild be established
for the following reasons:
1t is greatly needed by the set
tiers in the vicinity OF the proposed
road and by the travelling public.
We consider the SWA OF NWA
Sec. 10 Twp. l N. r. Al E. w. NJ.
belonging to c. r. Elliott will be
rendered less valuable to the
amount of 1925.
We consider the s. E. u N. f. 4
Sec. "a Twp. l N. II. AZ e. w. NJ.
belonging to e. w. .Southwick
will be rendered less valuable TO
.