Arizona republican., 1921-05-17
DISPUTED BOUNDARY
 INVOLVES VALUABLE
 RAILROAD PROPERTY

Declaring that from his observa tions and surveys, the monument marking the boundary line between Maricopa and Yavapai counties north of Wickenburg is one and one eighth mile south of the real boundary be- tween the counties, O. c. Thompson yesterday submitted a partial report to the board of supervisors of Mari copa county after spending more than a week in locating the boundary line. If MT. Thompson's survey and observations are correct, Guy F. Yer non, chairman of the board. said yes terday, Yavapai county has been col lecting taxes on Santa Fe railroad property valued at $250.000 which should be paid to Maricopa county.
 Mir. Thompson Is now in Prescott collecting additional data on the boundary line and will return to hoenPix in a few days. Should the completed report show that the boundary line as now marked should be a mile and an eighth farther north, Mir. Vernon said, the matter will be taken to the supreme court for a decision. Should this be done. Mir. Vernon said, the expense of the litigation will be borne jointly by both counties.
 The question of the boundary line Cekille QD ScFttdl MethS 1SO nllCA lWO officials of the Santa Fe railway company from San Francisco were in Phoenix in regard to the proposed joint terminal and passenger depot to be built here. The officials paid a visit to the board of supervisors and remarked they were of the opin- ion the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway company was paying taxes on it's property north of Wick enburg which properly belonged to this county.
 The board of supervisors then asked the office of the state engineer for a map of the county and discov- cred the map showed the entire DOT ton of the Los Angeles branch of the Santa F'e railroad to be in Maricopa, instead of a portion of the branch tapping over into Yavapai county north of Wickenburg junction. This map shows that the boundary line from a point directly north of Wick along north lateral 34.
 Several letters about the matter were written to the supervisors in
 Yavapai county, Mir. Vernon said, but to date they have not answered One letter, MT. Vernon said. asked the board of supervisors of Yavapai county to join this county in making a survey of the boundary line. The board here then employed MT. Thompson to make the survey The matter will be handled, Mir. Vernon said, without the cooperation of the Yavapai county officials.
 The map as drawn by the state engineering department shows the western portion of the north boun- dary of Maricopa county to run in a northwesterly direction from Boards ley reservoir to a point two miles di- rectly north of Wickenburg, where ii
 joins lateral 34 and then runs du1 west along this lateral to the Yuma county line.
 In 1891, Mir, Vernon said, the board of supervisors of Yavapai county placed a monument north of Wick enburg to mark the line where it starts it's western course to the Yuma line. This monument is the one l that MT. Thompson claims is a mile and an eighth south of lateral 34 Mir. Thompson told the board of sup ervisors he got his points for the sur vey from the sun and the north star | and then worked out the location of lateral 34
 A line running due west from the | location of the monument placed as a
 marker, Mir. Thompson said, places the junction of the Santa Fe lines tc | Prescott and Los Angeles in Yava- | pal county, and the Los Angeles | branch overlaps this boundary line ir 1 several places after leaving the june | tion The line as established by MT | Thompson, if upheld by the supreme | court, will place a mile and an eighth