The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1936-07-31

taken coward the requirement by
purchase of the right of way of
the Florida East Coast Railway,
other than that portion contained
in the section from Lower Mate.
cumbe to the station on Big
Pine Key, for which an offer was
made several weeks ago by the
Overseas Road and Toll Bridge
district. The section to be pur.
chased at ,:his time is to be turn
ed over to the state road depart
ment.
This matter was discussed a.!
three meetings. One held 2
o'clock in the afternoon at the
biological station by the bridge
commission, the second, at the
county court house, S o'clock un-
til o'clock, was a joint meeting
with the bridge commission and
the county commissioners.
Present at this meeting were
Commissioner Chairman Carl Ber-
taldi, Commissioners VIM. R. Por-
ter, Norberg Thompson, Braxton
B. Warren and Nathan Niles,
County Attorney Arthur Gomez.
Clerk Ross C. Sawyer, Judge Will
liam V. Albury, Sheriff K. o.
Thompson and Chief Deputy Ber-
nard Waite.
Chairman Judge w. H. Berwell.
of the bridge commission, Attor-
ney Judge H. H. Taylor, his secre-
tary Miss Florence Du Pare, Man.
ager B. M. Duncan, Members B.
D. Trevor, P. L. Wilson, J. R.
Showers and T. Jenkins Curry.
There were also a number of in
terested citizens.
Explains Matter
Judge Taylor opened the meet
ing with succinct explanation of
the previous activities of the
bridge commission and the pro-
posed requirement by purchase of
the right of way of the road by
the commission.
He also went into details of
the accomplishments of c. B.
Treadway, chairman Of the state
road department, and the out
standing work he had done with
Congressman Mark Wilcox in
bringing about the secured loan
of 100000 with which to make
the purchase of the right of way
and build the bridges.
Following this he read a COM
munication addressed to Messrs.
w. r. Kenan and S. M. Loftin,
receivers of the F. E. C. R'y.,
which set forth the proposal to
purchase the right of way of the
railroad from a point on Mate
cumbe where the area controlled
by the bridge commission starts
and from the Big Pine Key station
to the intersection of the right of
way and Roosevelt Boulevard.
Excluded In Purchase SO
In the proposed purchase there
are certain lands on Windiey's
Key excluded from the purchase.
Also certain stipulations relative
to ''cross tires, bridge ties, switch
ties, rails, rail joints, frogs,
switches, guard rails, switch
stands, and all other track fasten-
ings and track appurtenances,
pumps, boilers, tanks. pipes, pipe
fittings, ballast, signals, telephone
and telegraph instr ments and
equipment and other equipment
not a part of the road bed and
bridge structures, which you may
desire to remove from its present
location on or off of the lands of
the railway along the line Of the
railway within the area men,
toned.
"The offerers agree that the
state road departments will take
title to said lands subject to all
taxes due the State of Florida and
the counties of Dade and Monroe
for the years 1885 and all SUB
sequent thereto. and Monroe
County agrees that in considera-
ton hereof and of the conveyance
by the receivers of certain other
rights of ways to the Overseas
Road and Toll Bridge district. it
will relieve the receivers of the
railroad property (including that
to be conveyed to the Overseas
Road and Toll Bridge district) of
all taxes due by them to said
TERYDhY OCHTR Al