The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1917-01-11
COMMISSIONERS MEET AND
TAKE Up MUCH NEW BUSINESS

honorable board to open and maintain
public road beginning between Sec.
2S and u and Sec. 20 and 81, Twp. IL
Range 33E, N. M. p. NJ.
Signed: V. &. Marrs, ct al"
The viewers report on the above
mentioned road is received and after
carefully considering the viewers re-
port the Board finds that they cannot
accept il for the reason that the de-
scription as given by the viewers does
not conform to the petition. The
Board therefore, defers action on same
and instructs the clerk to refer the
matter to V. C. Marrs, first signer on
petition, advising him TO have new
petition drawn up that will conform
to the law in every respect.
The Board received a petition for
public road running from the City of
! Tucumcari to the town of Rock Island
which reads as follows:
1--WE the undersigned, resident citi-
zens Of the county OF Quay and state
of New Mexico, do hereby most re-
spectfully petition the honorable board
of county commissioners of Quay coun
ty, to open and DECLARE as and for a
public road the following described
course or route in Quay county, towit
Beginning at the bridge on the
Plaza Largo creek, at the point where
the public road and U. S. Mail line
intersects and crosses the said Plaza
Largo creek thence running due north
on the section line between Sections
one and two in Twp 10 north of rng
BE to the intersection of said Sec
tion line with the public road and state
road running from City of Tucumcari
to the town of Rock Island.
Signed:
J. +. Ward, ct al.
1t now appearing to the Board that
the foregoing petition Is accompanied
by funds in a sufficient amount to COW
er the cost of viewing said proposed
road and that the said petition is sign
ed by the number of free holders re.
quired by law, the Board now appoints
j. NJ. Stark, Jas. F. Bell and r. A.
Dodson as viewers and directs them to
meet at the Court House at 10 o'clock
a. m. on Monday, January 22, 1917,
and to then and there proceed to view
and mark out such road and to as
sess the damages and benefits accru.
ing TO the owner or owners of any of
the land over which the same may pass
/ by reason of the altering, changing,
! widening or locating thereof and the
proper cost Of opening said road for
travel and to make full and complete
report to this board.
The board then received the peti.
tion for ahe her public road towit:
I'VE your petitioners live within
two miles Of certain road that is pray
ed to be open, commencing on the
southwest corner of Sec. 5, known as
the Reaves school section, thence east
three miles on said section line also
being the correction line between the
two townships 3 and Q, and from there
south between Sec. 4 and 8, " mile
thence east to j. M. Hodges residence
thence south 20 Plain, where the road
ends. This is to be known as the
-Tucumcari road. We further
state to the Board Of County Commits.
sioners that we have been over the
ground and found this road to he the
most feasible to the accommodation OF
the general public, further more we
wish to state to the Board Of County
Commissioners that there will be nc
objection whatever to this our re-
quest. Signed.
Nicanor Tafoya, ct al
The petition was accompanied by q
check in sufficient amount to cove,
the cost Of viewing said proposed road
and was signed by the number Of free
holders required by law. Foley Grigg.
Gadberr;, and {. W. Carman weie
appointed viewers and directed to meet
at 10 o'clock a. m, on Friday, Janu
ary 10, 1917, at the post Office at Puer,
to and then and there. to proceed tc
view and mark out such road and t.
assess the damages and benefits ac
cruing to the owner or owners of any
Of the land over which the same ma,
pass by reason of the altering, chang
. ing, widening or locating thereof ant
the proper cost of opening said roat
for travel and to make q full and com
plete report to this Board.
The Board ordered that the Count,
| aicaitH OiiiCcT TtCeiNt anu De ullOwe(
one dollar, $l.00, per mile one way OIL
, all trips requiring medical attention
and II is further ordered that tn,
County Health Officer define the sp
proximate location where call wa
made by giving as nearly as practice
, n description of the distance travele,
or by giving the distance and localit,
from some store or postoffice In tn
County, to the point where the cal
!, was made. And the Board further or
ders that when medical calls are mad
Z within town, AN amount of not NOR
} than Sl.50 is to be allowed for each.
On the third day the Board approx
ed the bond of A. r. Moses as sur
veyor, and accepts the proposition o
Keller Bros, Of Denver. which read
: as follows:
n ain connection with your conten,
Z Continued on last paes)