HomeMy WebLinkAboutbocc.min.reg.06031924Me~ting called to order on the 3rd. day of June. 1924 and all members were present.
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The treasurer is instreted in the matter of personal taxes of Susan Shettleworth against
which distraint was $ssued for recovery of amount due for the last half of the year 1920,
full taxes for t he years 1921 and 1922, the sum of X408.72, leaving subject to collection
the sum of X62.35 levied in 1923.E
N. L. Phillips having offered to purohase the tax certificates of sale and the taxes to
date on Lots A. B. C. M. and N. Block 66 Aspen, offering the sum of X100.00: Upon motion the
said offer was accepted and the treasurer and clerk authorized and directed to $ransfer and
assign said certificates for said sum.
Jennie M. Johnston having offered to purchase the tag certificates of sale and the t4xea
to date on Lots N. and 0. Block 28 Aspen, offering the sum of20.00. Upon motion the said
offer wss•acoepted and the treasurer and clerk authorized and directed to transfer and assign
said certificates for said sum.
Mrs Marie Paulson having offered t d purchase the tax certificates of sale and the taxes
to date ors Lot 0. Block 66 Aspen,~offering the sum of X53.68. Upon motion the said offer was
accepted and the treasurer and clerk authorized and directed to transfer and assign said
certificates for said sum.
Upon.'pres~htgtlon of the following resolution, Brotivn and d~illiams voted in the affirmative
as to ita•seeeptance, and Reed voting in the negative.
Resolved that the offer of J. ,~. Gerbaz to sell to Pitkin County the portion of the
Midland right of way through his property, 60 feet in width himself to fence it without any
cost to Pitkin County, for thE; sum of Two Hundred dollars, be accepted, and that the deed
for the same be accepted and placed on record and that a warrant for the sum of two hundred
dollars in payment for the same be drawn payable to sa'd Gerbaz and delivered to him.
Orderedt to give r~lex Bionez 12 spools o3 fencing-wire toward fencing Highway through
his place .•
Blaine Bray appearing before the Board and asking for a donation to the Aspen City Barn.
Upon motion the sum of x`25.00 was donated and a warrant for this amount ordered drawn in this
favor.
Upon motion duly made and seconded the following resolution was adopted. V~illiams and
Brown voting in the affirmative and Reed, negative. '
Whereas; The County of Pitkin is, by virtue of deeds of conveyance duly of record, the owner
of that particular parcel of land beginning in•or near the town of aspen and term-
i•nating in or near the town of Basalt., said parcel of land being a strip about 18
miles long and 100 feet wide, formerly a part o~ the right of way of the Colorado Ml
Railway, the said premises being within the County of Pitkin and state of Colorado,
excepting therefrom only those parts of said right of way whioh have heretofore past
to adjacent individual owners by deedsof purchase from the Colorado Midland Railway,
and said premises so ~Qepted and recorded for highway uses as a condition of
such acceptance by the grantor in the deed to the County of Pitkin, and such accept-
ance furthermore having been expressly made by resolution of the Board of Commission
who thereby adopted and dedicated said strip of highway uses at the time the said de
was by them ordered to be recorded, and
Whereas;
the said old railway bed along and within said .strip of land is particularly adapts
kk to the uses for which receiv«~d and dedicated because of the excellence of its grade
the solidity of its mass and foundations and because it is the most. direct and shor
possible of lines between. Asp en and Basalt, and•further because no equally good roa
structure could be made between said points except at a price which would be beyond
the means of Pitkin County, and in fact De absolutely prohibitive by reason of
such cost,and further because the said road bed•and right of way have been conveyed
to the County of Pitkin without price, and as a•gift from citizen David R. C. Brown
who received the same by deed to him from the Colorado Midland Railway and for high
only, the said land to revert to the donor unless used for highway, and whereas the
premises and rights so conveyed to Pitkin County are of gresat worth for public
highway uses not alone because of great first cost but because of the excellence
of the condition of said road bed, and the immediate availability, and beosuae at
small cost per mile they can be made into first class road, and a most desirable
and most necessary highway between said points, and for a fraction of the coat of
any other line that could be built between said•points, and thereafter be maintains
for year around use at light expense, and
Whereas; • '
iB the judgement of the Commissioners of Pitkin~County the said right of way will
beat aceomodate that travel passing through Pitkin County over State Highway
NtvAber 82 ( formerly designated as State Road No• 25) as well ea serve a majority
of the people of Pitkin County
Now Therefore
Be It Resolved, that said road bed and ri~•ht of way, shall as onoe, as heretofore a
and dedicated, be- re-adopted, and is hereby adopted as County Etoad, oonfirming
the seta heretofore of Commissioners in respect'thereto, $lid that from the Waek
orosaing on West it shall ae Spe+idily as poasibxe be converted to public use, to th
end that it shall become a part of and be inoori3orated into said State Highway No.
88 { formerly No 2~) and thereafter shall be maintained and improved jointly by the
County of Pitkin and State of Colorado, as the law pro~idi3, and as by resolution t
State Highway Department has been properly petibi3axiedcsdatdodo and to include, by
the Commissioners of Pitkin County at their May meeting A. D. 1924.
• G. B. Brown
Chairman
Done at Aspen, Pitkin County, Colorado
at the June meeting of the Bosrd,'of
Commissioners of Pitkin County this `
2nd day of June A. D. 1924
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Jennie E. Sanders County clerk and Recorder.
.ere e ~ no further business, upon motion was adjourned