Wallowa County chieftain. [volume] (Enterprise, Or.) 1909-1911, 1909-06-03
EXPENSE BILLS OF
CIRCUIT COURT PAID
w. T. KNAPP ROAD ALLOWED iF
PETITIONERS PAY DAMAGES
TO LANDOWNERS.
Official Proceedings Of County Court

In the matter OF the T. NJ. Gilmore
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.
n..pp and others praying for the
location of a county road.
Now on this Gath day of May, 1909,
this matter comes regularly on to
be heard upon the second reading
of the viewers report, and also
upon the remonstrance against the
said petition, filed herein by c. R.
Elliott and others, as we'll as upon
the affidavits and request that
names be stricken from the petit
tion 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
affidavits filed in support thereof
by the respective petitioners and
demonstrators, and the court be-
ing fully advised in the matter
find that upon the petition praying
for the location of said road there
remains eighteen freeholders resld-
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 remon-
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
tablishment of said road and its
establishment recomm ended by said
board of viewers, and is as follows,
to4wit.-
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 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
hey and s. P. Miller as chain bear
ers and A. G. Rambo as marker
and proceeded to view, survey ant
lay out said road as prayed for II
said petition, as near as in our op
inion good road can be made a
a reasonable expense, taking int,
consideration the utility, conven
ience and inconvenience and ex
pense which will result to in
dividuals as well as thu
public, II such road shall be estat
lished and opened.
The said road was surveyed unde
/ our directions, and the same wa
L conspicuously marked Throughout
the corners and distances thereo
noted, and all trees on the line G
said road were marked on each Z
the sides thereof correspondent
with the direction of said road, wit
three notches cut through the bal
and one inch into the wood, an
all trees adjacent to the said lin
of said road we're plainly blaze
on the side facing said road. TIL
II beginning and termination OF sal
road and the termination of eac
|; mile and intermediate points ha,
been marked in the manner pr
! yided by law, as will more full
appear by the certified return
\ the survey of said road, which
hereunto attached and made pa
of this report.
That in our opinion the said pr
y posed road should be establish'
H for the following reasons:
Y 1t is greatly needed by the s,
y tiers in the vicinity of the propos
h road and by the travelling publ
Y We consider the SWA of NV
X Sec. 10 Twp. N. r. Al e. w.
Il belonging to G. r. Elliott will
" rendered less valuable to t
n amount Of 1926.