The daily sentinel., 1914-04-18

Grand Junction. Colorado. to hold
said inquiry. that said board be fur
nished the services of f. Barnard
Welsh. county attorney, who shall act
as attorney to said board and assist
| II in conducting said inquiry: that
said board be empowered to call be-
fore il such ILLNESSES as IL sees fit
and to employ such engineers or
other persons as they deem necessa-
ry to thoroughly measure and inves-
tigate said bridge and compare the
same with the pans and specitica-
tions thereof at the expense of Mesa
county; that all of the meetings of
said board shall be open to the pub
lie: that said board be empowered to
employ stenographer If it sees fit;
that an invitation be extended to the
Taxpayers league, to the Patterson
Burghardt Construction Company
and to j. j. Lumsden to appear and
give such testimony as they may see
fit, subject to the supervision of
said board and its attorney and that
said board after Investigating to its
full satisfaction and after hearing all
witnesses it may care to call before it
or who may volunteer evidence, re-
turn to this board in writing its
/. Has said bridge been completed
in substantial conformity to the
plans and specifications therefor.
9. Has the county been defrauded
by the contractors in the construction
OF said bridge, and If so, in what
manner?
g. Should the county commission
ers in the opinion of the board furth-
nj tho nIIf-
standing eighteen thousand dollars in
warrants?
A. Should the commissioners pay
the sixteen thousand dollars balance
on the contract price for said bridge.
Said board is further given power
to regulate the methods of its own
procedure and in the event that any
i of the above mentioned members of
said board are unable to serve, then
said board is given full power to fill
any vacancy which may occur in its
membership.
The men named in the resolution
have not all agreed to act. but 1t is
believed they will do SO. The coun-
ty commissioners made the appoint
ments to cover the entire county,
Commissioner Kluge presenting the
resolutions, inasmuch as the other
two members were on the board
when the last bridge payments were
ordered. though they had nothing to
do with the letting of the contract
The bridge matter was called to
the attention of the board by Coun-
Inv Attorney Welsh, who related the
court proceedings already held, and
suggested that it would soon be up
! to the board to decide whether or not
they intended to pay the warrants to
the bridge company. Mr.. Welsh
presented a letter from the district
attorney to the commissioners, IN
which Mr.. Weiser advised against
making further payments.
The following is Weiser's letter:
The Honorable Board of County
Commissioner of Mesa County,
Colorado.
Gentlemen;
The semi-annual term OF the court
lin Gunnison county requires my
leaving for the town of Cunnison to-
morrow morning. as result of which
Ii am forced to write you this letter
lin place of advising you in person. as
II would much prefer to do desire
herein to call your further attention
to the suit seeking TO enjoin the
payment of $4,000 of warrants is
sued in payment OF the Main street
bridge. 1t seems to be the opinion
lof the newspapers and through them
of the public at large that the ruling
lof Judge Cavender upon the de-
murrer to the answers. of the Pat
ltersou- -Burkhardt Company disposed
of this case entirely. This is not my
Idea. as a result of which have filed
Ia replication and the case Is now at
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