The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1911-03-02
Caldwell, Idaho, Dec. 20, 1910.


The board of county commissioners
met pursuant to a recess taken on the
10Th OF November. Present, Jas. Van
derdasson, chairman; j. E. Kerrick
Otto G. Reinhardt, and o. V. Bailey
clerk, when the following proceedings
were had, to-wit:
In the matter of the petition of Geo.
Myers ct al, petitioning for a road
In district No. 10, the said petition
having been accepted upon the condi-
ton that Geo. Myers put in condi-
ZION that would be acceptable to the
board, the proposed road, building a
substantial bridge, and putting road in
condition for travel Whereupon the
commissioners viewed said road on De-
cember 14th, 1910, and said improve
ments being satisfactory to the board,
the road was accepted and declared to
be public highway and the old road
ordered closed.
In the matter of the application of
Jacob Mussell for authority to erect
and take tolls on public ferry over
Snake river to be known as Mussell's
ferry with landings as follows:
One on the left bank of said Snake
river at the northeasterly terminus
OF Ferry street in town of Homedale,
county of Owyhee, state Oh Idaho, as
the said street appears upon the Of
fetal plat of the said town on file on
the Office of the recorder of Owyhee
county, Idaho, and the other at
point directly opposite on the right
bank of the said river in section three
(3) Of township three co north of
range five 90 west of the Boise Me-
r1dlan in the county of Canyon, state
of Idaho.
1t appearing to the board that said
applicant has complied with the laws
OF the state of Idaho in such matter
and that he has published notice of
intention to make such application by
publishing notice thereof once a week
for four successive weeks in each
county in which the ferry is or
touches specifying the location, the
time and the place, when and where
the application will be made to-wit:
Once a week for four successive
weeks in the Owyhee Nugget, a week
ly newspaper published in Owyhee |
county, state of Idaho, also once a |
week for four successive weeks in
the Middleton Herald, a weekly news"
paper published in Canyon county, |
Idaho, as more fully appears by refer
ence to the affidavit of the publishers |
of the said papers, now on file herein, |
and it further appearing that said ap-
plicant has served notice of his ap-
plication on the owner of the land oc-
cupied by the landings of said ferry
to-wit: Hannah j. Allen, at least ten |
days prior to making his application,
and it further appearing that said ap-
plicant has accompanied said applica-
ton with good and sufficient bond |
fDY. he -
appearing that said ferry is a public
necessity, and that the said applicant
is suitable and proper person to
operate the public ferry and that he
has at this time a boat of sufficient
capacity with landings and all other
machinery necessary actually con-
structed and in use for the
operation of public ferry
as prayed for in the application,
and that the said applicant is now
properly equipped to operate public
ferry as prayed for. Now upon mo-
ton the said bond is hereby approved
and the said application is hereby
granted as applied for and the appli-
cant is hereby authorized to erect and
take tolls on a public ferry with land
ings as aforesaid, and the right to so
construct and operate and take tolls
is hereby made exclusive for dis
lance of one mile on the said river on
either side of the landings aforesaid,
and upon the payment of the required
fee a license is hereby ordered is
sued to said applicant for one year on
and after the first day of January
1911.
1t is further ordered that the license
fees, rules, and regulations and rates
established at the October meeting of ,
the board Of county commissioners of
this county, in the year 1904, upon the ,
application of o. A. Baxter and j. A ,
Walker apply in all respects to the
operation of the said Mussell's ferry.
Whereupon the board adjourned !
sine die.
Approved: JAS. VANDERDASSON,
Chairman.
Attest: o. V. BADLEY,