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the
Oct. 27, 1908.
William O. Enery, Esq.,
Register of Deeds,
Elleworth, Me.
My dear Mr. linery:
the enclose two Warranty Deeds and two Indentures for record.
there is, we think, no necessity of recording more than one copy of
each Indenture, putting the certificate of Record however u; or
both
copies of each.
Yours very truly,
Nav. 20th, 1907
Mr. George B. Dorr,
18 Commonwealth Ave.,
Boston, Mass.
Dear Sir: -
I have received from Mr. Hill a plan of the proposed road
across your land and that of Hrs. Markoe. The plan shows a road with
several curves. He has described it, however, by giving numerous
short
courses
and
distances. If the road is to follow in part, curved
lines, his description is, of course, only approximately accurate.
In order to accurately describe the curves it will be necessary for
Mr. Hill to make some further survey 80 that the deed will show
direction of chord, length of radius etc. Please advise me whether
the description which we have, consisting of straight lines' and angles
is sufficiently accurate for our purposes, or do you wish a further
survey made 60 3.8 to have the curves in the road described with abso-
lute accuracy?
Yours very truly,
18 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
November 27th, 1907.
L. B. Deasy, Esq.,
Bar Harbor, Maine.
My dear Mr Deasy,
This is just a line to give you Mr and Mrs Newbold's full
names which I have looked up in the Social Register. Mr Newbold's
name is John Sargent Newbold and he married Mrs Markoe's niece
Virginia Campbell.
I expect to come down for a couple of days tomorrow, Thursday,
night, bringing down with me Mr W. W. Brown, the head of the
Metropolitan Sewerage Board to give the town his advice unon its
sewerage-outlet problem. 1000 I "hope to see you while I am there.
Yours truly,
George B work
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It is further provided in the deed that the power to confer
legal right to make use of the new road on others than those who
may acquire it through ownership of land to which that right belongs
shall be vested in us jointly so long as we both shall live and
continue to hold land abutting on this road on the earlier right
of way to which it gives an exit.
Upon our respective deaths that right shall pass to our rep-
resentatives but shall cease with our interest or our estate's in-
terest in land served, directly or indirectly, by the road. When
that interest ceases the power to give such right shall then pass to
the several owners of the land through which the road passes.
All the land now owned by Mrs Markoe at Bear Brook or by myself
included in my Oldfarm property, which is all the land now held by me
at Bar Harbor, shall possess perpetually rights of way over this road,
and the future owners of the land through which it passes shall not
have power to close it to its owners.
The road itself, as well as the fifty foot strip above men-
tioned, is to be permanently restricted from poles and overhead
wires or pipes not buried beneath its surface or any other service
causing disfigurement upon it. such wires or pipes may be brought
underground however by the owners of the land traversed or those to
whom they may grant such right but such rights shall not exist to
the road's disfigurement or injury.
Provided however that no service by either wire or pipe brought
in from the public road along the road in question be given directly
or indirectly to land extending beyond our present ownerships without
first obtaining the consent of both or all the owners of the right-
of-way.
List of restrictions to be placed upon a strip of land fifty
feet wide lying upon either side of sols Cliff Road and Schooner
Head Road along the portions designated in our deeds, these restric-
tions to be practically co-extensive for both owners.
Restriction from all buildings or other structures.
From poles and wires for electrical or other service, carried
above ground. And from water or other pipes similarly carried
above ground.
From yards and enclosures, such as yards for animals or poultry,
stable-yards, laundry-yards, or yards for storage.
From manure or garbage heaps, garden or other refuse or any
obvious source of disfigurement or of annoyance to either sight or
smell.
The object of these restrictions being to preserve the beauty
of the roadsides and the pleasantness of the roads to those abutting
on or using then.
This restriction is to apply on Mrs Markoe's side to the whole
road frontage of the land which she acquires from me, whether front-
age on sols Cliff Road or Schooner Head Road; and unon her strip of
road frontage on Sols Cliff Road lying between Lot F which she ac-
quires from me and Lot D in which she retains a life interest, that
is, the road frontage of Lot L7 as designated on the surveyor's map.
And the restriction upon my side is to apply to the road frontage
on both the above roads lying opposite to the road frontage restricted
by Mrs Markoe and equal to it in extent. The restriction on my
side applies mainly to land already owned by me but also to the
western portion of the road frontage of Lot C as far east as to its
intersection by the prolongation of the western boundary of Lot D,
at which Mrs Markoe's similar restriction ceases.
Washington
Sep 30th
Dear Mr ogden,
First let me thank you for your careful conscientious
admirable paper and say that I had no idea what a work it was.
It is really wonderful how deeply you have gone into it.
Then I want to say that we must insist on paying for work
done in your vacation and so elaborately done. I shall be none the
less grateful for your friendly kindness in doing us this favour.
I want to say too that I an absolutely satisfied with your decision
but now to questions.
1. I notice that all restrictions are imposed on me -- but
surely those on the roadsides would also be laid upon Mr Dorr.
2. There are certain things in case of niy death. NOW I
earnestly hope that G. B. D. will survive me many years, but I have
seen the course of nature so often overthrown, that it seems to me
some provision should be made for such a calamity as my outliving
him.
3. There would be no difficulty between him and me about
clearing the trees on Lot C. I am sure, and I mean to do 1t with him,
but I think that as it stands any one who bought the upper lot night
cut trees etc. That right I would not concede. I will do it with
Mr Dorr -- or after my death he can do it -- but no one else.
I don't see that Mr D. gives a right of way over his land from
the S. H. road, as I buy his land, any more than I give a right over
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my land, as he buys it.
So that $4000 for him on that account
and nothing for his right over my land seems a contrast. Now
I
make these suggestions for a better understanding but if you will
have this typed, as you suggest, I should like to look it over again.
I am afraid I am very unworthy to be a lawyer's daughter, but
it is hard for me to get a clear comprehension.
with warmest thanks,
I am Sincerely yours
(Signed) Matilda Markoe.
Okeden.
Bar Harbor, Maine.
October 4th, 1907.
My dear Mrs Markoe,
Many thanks for the kind expressions in your letter of
the 30th September.
In answer to your questions let me say preliminarily that
I supposed the restrictions to be imposed upon your and Mr Dorr's
lands respectively had been fully agreed upon between you and him
and in my paper I said that I assumed in fixing valuations that
"the beauty of the present road and the outlook therefrom shall be
provided for in agreements satisfactory to the parties."
My understanding as to what these agreements should contain may
have been wrong but I did not suppose that it was any part of my
duty to dictate or determine what restrictions should be laid upon
the properties. My valuations were based upon precisely what I
state in the conclusion of my opinion.
I will state however that I understood that the restrictions
on the roadsides were to be mutual wherever it would be to the
advantage of either party to have them so.
This answers your
first question.
As to your second question which relates to the contingency
of Mr Dorr dying before you this I suppose refers to the power to
grant rights of way over the road to lands not abutting on It, e.g.
Chase or Harvard lots. My understanding as to this is that as long
as you live the power to make such grants is vested in you and him
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jointly. If you die first it goes to him alone. If he dies first
it vests in you and his representatives Jointly as long as you
live and when you die it goes to his representatives solely. I
supposed this was understood between you.
As to the third question which relates to cutting trees on
Lot
IN
I supposed that this also was fully understood between you.
I have spoken to Mr Dorr about it and I feel perfectly sure that an
arrangement can be made between you and him which will be satisfactory
to both and which will also preserve to nim the right to protect
the outlook from Lot C. without which that lot would be comparatively
valueless. Had not such an arrangement better be made between you
and him directly and without my intervention ?
Your observations as to Mr Dorr not giving you a right of way
over Lot F. because he sells you the lot are very pertinent. I
tried to make it clear in my opinion what my views on that subject
were and I fear that if I failed then I cannot succeed now.
Let me first however draw your attention to the fact that it is
"writ in the bond" that I must consider the right of exit given to
your lands to the Schooner Head Road separate and apart from the
value of Lot F. When Mr Dorr gave me the survey and other memor-
anda in regard to the matter he gave me also two sheets signed on
the back by you which seemed to define very clearly my duties.
Amongst other things it was provided by them as follows.
The
paper was dated September 7th, 1906. It appears to have been
written by Mr Dorr. It says, "What I propose 18 this:
If 1 That the cost of building the road should be shared in
equally by Mrs Markoe and myself
and that after the road is
built
someone be appointed by us
to determine the
relative value of the land exchanged, 80 that a fair basis for
3
settlement between us may be arrived at --- which shall then be
acted on. The question of increased value given to Mrs Markoe's
land served by the road should also be considered then and if found
not only to exist but to be obvious and considerable in excess of
what might have been obtained without the exit given through my
land should be given fair weight in adjusting the exchange
These things --- the value of the land exchanged and the value of
the exit given, conservatively estimated being given fair weight,
I agree to pay Mrs Markoe, when the road is done, whatever balance
may be judged due her on the exchange, the value of the lands ex-
changed being determined on the basis of their value at that time.
The estimate of the value of the exit given would take account not
alone of the increased value given by it to the lands exchanged but
also of the increased value given by it and the new roadway to other
land belonging to either owner and benefitted by them. In other
words, the total benefit received by each is to be weighed and
estimated, and 11 the balance be against me I will pay Mrs Markoe
whatever the difference may be held to be.H
I endeavored to follow this as the charter of my powers and in
my letter to you from Ashville and afterwards in my talk with you
at Larchsea I laid stress on the fact that I understood that I was
to value "rights" mutually granted as well as the value of lots
to be conveyed and I understood you fully to assent.
But I cannot see how in any event I could have made a fair
award without taking these 'rights' into consideration. There was
before me an improvement made by adjoining owners for the benefits
of their lands, and the lands of both were benefitted thereby. You
gave Mr Dorr a right of way over your land longer than the right he
gave you over his land.
So far the balance was in your favor.
4
But the right given by him to you was vastly more valuable to you
than the right granted by you to him was favorable to him. And
any value coming to him from the right given by you to him was in
my judgment fully paid by him by the construction at his sole cost
of the road through the Chase lot and by the payment of the larger
portion of the cost of the remainder of the road. I think therefore
that he had thus fully compensated you for the right of way over your
land and this quite independently of the fact that he had contributed
one half of the cost of the road through your and his lands. Thus
the value to him of the right of way through your lands was elimin-
ated from further consideration. Not 80 however the value to you
of the right of way through his lands. As to this he had received
no compensation and the question before me was what compensation
therefore should be made to him on the settlement.
What first is to be noticed in this connection is that while
ne is paying for Lots C. and D. a price which includes an increased
value due to the improvement (which I fixed at $4000. ) you are pay-
ing for Lot F. a price which includes no such increased value, for
the value was not in my judgment increased at all. The lot is
sold to you at about $1000. per acre, which I was told by Mr May
yesterday was the price paid by Mr McCagg for the land bought by
him last autumn on the Otter Creek Road adjoining his place, land
which, so far as I can see, is worth no more than Lot F.
Moreover it seems to me hardly accurate to say that the owner-
ship of Lot F. by itself gave you access to your back land independ-
ent of the right-of-way and that the purchase of Lot F. by you
eliminated any question of a value of the right of way over it.
The whole scheme was one for mutual advantage, the benefits of
which were to be equitably shared between you and Mr Dorr in
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proportion to the contributions made by each including (as in fair-
ness it must the value of the opportunities afforded by each which
made the improvement possible. Lot F. was not for sale. Until
the road was made it did not exist at all as a separate lot. It
was not contemplated that it should be transferred to you for the
purpose of enabling you to build the road. on the contrary the
principle thing was that the road should be built on the best pos-
sible line and as this line cut F. off from Mr Dorr's other lands
it was also agreed that it should be conveyed to you at its value
after the road had been built. In other words the first thing was
the right of way; for that Mr Dorr was entitled to compensation.
It was further agreed that after that had been built he should sell
to you his land lying south of the road.
I do not believe I have been one bit clearer than I was before.
I see it all very distinctly in my own mind but it is difficult of
expression.
Now as to compensation to me. Please do not mention that
again. You, Mrs Coles, and George are all the old Bar Harbor friends
that are left me. Can I not do a friendly act, to them at all events,
because I am a lawyer ?
Very sincerely yours,
Suggestion for draft of letter for Mrs Markoe to write G.B.D.
with regard to restriction on Lot D, in place of having the restric-
tion defined in the deed and rights of enforcement given.
Dear Mr D. ,
I write to give you assurance with regard to Lot C, which you
are acquiring for me under the terms of Mr Ogden's opinion of
September 24th, 1907, with regard to our exchange of land etc., that
I shall not let its value nor the beauty and pleasantness of the
outlook from any portion of it important to that value be lessened
by buildings or other structures erected or by trees retained on
any portion of Lot D lying below Lot C or in its line of view, nor
by allowing any cause of obvious disfigurement to similarly remain
upon it to the injury of Lot C. In case we, or your successor
in
ownership and myself, should not at any time agree as to what con-
stitutes such injury I will then unite with you or your successor
in calling in professionally, at our joint expense, such landscape
gardener, architect or other person of knowledge in such matters
as we may agree upon, to give us his opinion on the matter which
shall then be taken as our guide and acted on.
Yours
----
Bar Harbor, Maine.
September 7th, 1906.
As my interest is also involved in finding the best exit for an
important roadway passing through my land and as the new portion would
be half upon my land throughout if the plan which I have suggested should
the interect
be carried out
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well
as
for
interest in the development and the
pleasure I should take in its successful carrying out what I propose
is this:
1
That the cost of building the road should be shared in equally
by Mrs Markoe and myself, I taking charge of its construction and
making myself responsible for its good and economic execution.
2
That an exchange of land take place between Mrs Markoe and my-
self by which the center of the proposed roadway shall become our
common boundary from the Chase land to the Schooner Head Road; and
that after the road is built and the exact boundary can be determined
some one be appointed by us, satisfactory to us both, to determine
the relative value of the land exchanged, so that a fair basis for
settlement between us may be arrived at which shall then be acted
on.
The question of increased value given to Mrs Markoe's land
served by the road should also be considered then and which
cannot be well judged until the road is built if found not only
to exist but to be obvious and considerable in excess of what might
have been obtained without the exit given through my land should
be given fair weight in adjusting the exchange. And the compensa-
tion determined due to Mrs Markoe for building and other restriction
placed upon the southern extremity of the ledge the portion cut off
by the roadway ) for the benefit of the building site conveyed to me
above the roadway at that point
it not being possible to utilize
Restriction
both sites and preserve their value.
This portion of the ledge.
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would also in my judgment be important to the pleasantness and beauty
of the drive afforded by the right of way, which if developed and
preserved would have an important influence on the value of the land
the roadway serves.
3
These things
the value of the land exchanged and the value
of the exit given, conservatively estimated being given fair
weight, I agree to pay Mrs Markoe, when the road is done, whatever
balance may be judged due her on the exchange, the value of the lands
exchanged being determined on the basis of their value at that time.
The estimate of the value of the exit given would take account not
alone of the increased value given by it to the lands exchanged but
also of the increased value given by it and the new roadway to other
land belonging to either owner and benefitted by them. In other
words, the total benefit received by each is to be weighed and
estimated, and if the balance be against me I will pay Mrs Markoe
whatever the difference may be held to be.
4
The question of the cost of building the proposed road cannot
be determined until estimates are obtained upon it from practical
builders but I now believe that $2000. would be sufficient for its
construction, no crushed stone being used in building it but only
the material
rock and gravel
which can be obtained along
its
course. of these there is abundance at hand. No drain-
age will be needed; there are no bridges to build; and though there
is considerable blasting to be done this will be mainly superficial,
the only deep cut being where the roadway crosses the ledge's narrow
spine, which at that point is only a few feet in width and free on
either side. I therefore feel that if this estimate is less than
needed it cannot be greatly so -- if time be taken for the work and
its course and construction are carefully studied out and planned
with judgment.
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Bar Harbor, Maine.
September 10th, 1906
The total length of the proposed road from Mrs Markoe's Chase boun-
dary to the Schooner Head Road is a trifle over 1800 feet. The height
of the present right of way where the proposed road leaves it at the
Chase boundary is 146 4/10 feet above sea-level. Thence it rises, in
the course of 600 feet, to 162 feet above sea-level where it crosses the
ledge, a rise of 15 4/10 feet. This rise is made quite steadily and
the average rise along the distance is slightly over 2 1/2 per cent. It
probably could be kept down to 3 per cent. at any point. The elevation
of the Schooner Head Road at the point where the proposed road strikes it,
its highest point, is 124 4/10 feet above sea-level. This is 37 feet
below the proposed road where it crosses the ledge, its highest point,
and
21 feet below the highest point on the right of way road. This rise
of
37 feet from the Schooner Head Road to the highest point upon the pro-
posed road is made in 1200 feet, an average rise of 3 1/4 percent.
This cannot be made quite so steadily as the rise upon the other side
but need not exceed 5 per cent. at any point, I think which
is
what
is aimed at in the model state-built roads in Massachusetts. If it
should exceed this at any point it would be for a very short distance,
going up the ledge.
The length of the present right of way southward is approximately
2000 feet from the Chase boundary to the Schooner Head Road. It descends
83 feet from the point where the proposed road leaves it to its lowest
point, a distance of 1200 feet, an average grade for the whole length of
slightly over 14 per cent. It then rises in the neighborhood of 20 feet
to the Schooner Head Road and the Schooner Head Road rises 41 feet from
the entrance to this right of way to the entrance of the proposed road,
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one point or another, between the two courses. The descent down the
old right of way is long and steep; it would be impossible to obtain good
grade in following it, and the road if built would be a costly one to keep
in repair. In its lowest portion it descends below the lowest point
upon the Schooner Head Road, by Bear Brook, and as an ordinary approach
to either of these house sites would be of little use, while the steepness
of the descent and the difficulty of keeping it in good repair would be
apt, I think, to prevent the road from being much used for pleasure driving.
The road now proposed would have an easy grade throughout and would
connect the sites in question with the Schooner Head Road by the shortest
route the hill allows and a remarkably level one under the ciroumstances.
Its cost of construction would not be great and the after expense for
annual repair should be but slight; its entrance from the Schooner Head
Road would be through a beautiful pine wood and where it traverses the
ledges fine views of the ocean and of the mountains can be obtained from
it by a little cutting. If the road should be built, arrangement should
be made for keeping these always open for the benefit of the driveway and
for the increased value which making it attractive would give to the land
to which it gives access.
The southern point of ledge across which the road cuts is very
narrow, being only seventy or eighty feet in width at a distance of four
hundred or 80 feet back from its abrupt and precipitous end, and as its
sides are also precipitous no house site possessing accessibility other
than what this road would afford or breadth enough to make it an important
house site is sacrificed by carrying the road across it. No more than
one house-site exists upon this portion of the hill, as its slope is
steadily, and not rapidly, toward the ocean view and it narrows as it
descends, so that any house built upon it to the southward of another
would rise up into and block its view. And the site to the northward
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I have been asked to determine the questions contained in the
following statement.
Mrs John Markoe and Mr Dorr are the owners of land between
Frenchmens Bay and the Schooner Head Road. Their lands are partly
abutting. Together they form a tract capable of development and which
they have jointly developed so that this property is now in shape
for immediate sale. The scheme of development involved the con-
struction of a right of way through their properties, the imposition
of certain restrictions on the land bordering upon it and an exchange
of lands between them 80 that the centre of this right of way should
thereafter form their boundary. A survey of the land was made,
a
copy of which has been furnished to me and to which I refer herein.
I have marked the lots shown thereon with letters for more easy
reference.
The lots A. B. C. D. and E. belong to Mrs Markoe.
The lots F. G. H. and M. belong to Mr Dorr.
Lots I. and J. belong to Mrs Chase.
Lot K. belongs to Harvard University.
Lot L. belongs to Mrs Luquer.
All these lots are served by the new right of way but it has
been constructed by Mrs Markoe and Mr Dorr alone and the advantages
to them alone are to be considered. That these advantages are very
great seems to me evident. Before the new road was constructed the
Markoe tract had but one boundary on the public road, i.e. the front-
age of Lot E on the Schooner Head Road, and this frontage was hardly
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accessible from any portion of Lots A. B. C. or D. This fact was
recognized when the original right of way was laid out. By it
the
tract was divided into two great lots, A. and B. forning one on
the east and C. D. and E forming another on the west. A. and B.
were practically indivisible because of the great difficulty in
getting access by road to the site on Lot 3. and C. D. and E. were
likewise indivisible by reason of the difficulty of obtaining sep-
arate access to the various sites which it contained. These dif-
ficulties could only be done away with while the property was in a
common ownership, in other words the purchaser of any portion before
the road was laid out could not himself have constructed it and
thus enhanced the value of his own lot. This potential increment
of value therefore would have been destroyed by a sale of any sepa-
rate
portion of the land. The laying out and construction of the
road for these reasons in my opinion practically created site B. and
site C.;to the saleability and thus indirectly to the value of the
whole tract it also added very considerably by bringing it to the
public notice, putting it on a beautiful and continuous drive which
I have no doubt will be very largely used as a variant in addition
to the Ocean Drive.
From the Schooner Head Road to the southerly line of Lots I.
and J. belonging to the Chase estate this new road has been con-
structed at the joint expense of Mrs Markoe and Mr Dorr. From
thence through the Chase, Harvard and Luquer lots, I. J. K. and L. ,
it has been constructed by Mr Dorr alone. Lots H. and M. belonging
to Mr Dorr abut on this portion of the road and are to a certain
extent bettered by it. These lots are however 80 precipitous in
their character as to be totally unsuited for building purposes and
the advantege to them is inconsiderable.
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There remains to be considered the advantage to Mr Dorr result-
ing from the construction of this road in respect to his neighboring
land. The only portions abutting upon the road other than H. and M.
are Lot F. which is to go to Mrs Markoe and Lot G. which stands for
the whole of Mr Dorr's land affected by the improvement. That this
is benefitted there can be no doubt but only indirectly. It gains
no improved means of access for it was already perfectly accessible.
It is however brought into greater notice and the element of value
which resides in saleability is increased.
Now the time has come at which must be adjusted in terms of
concrete value what payments should be made between Mrs Markoe and
Mr Dorr to apportion the benefits received by each. These payments
are not to be made wholly in money but partly by the exchange of
Lots C and D containing together 12.5 acres for Lot F. containing
3 acres.
Manifestly the first step is to fix the fair market value of
these respective lots.
I have been much in doubt as to this. In the first place
there is no immediate market for the lands and 80 in a way there is
no market value. But the whole scheme of improvement has been
entered upon in the assumption that the time has come to make a
serious effort to sell which involves the further assumption that
buyers will be forthcoming. I have therefore endeavored to fix a
price which I believe the property should fetch within a reasonable
time assuming that there will be people desiring to buy at fair
prices.
In the next place I have had to determine whether I should in
fixing these values take into consideration the incidental advantages
to each purchaser by reason of the ownership of adjoining lands.
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I value Mrs Markoe's land as it now stands as follows:
Lot A.
$30,000
Lot B.
30,000
Lots C. & D.
10,000
Lot, E.
10,000
Total
$80,000
These valuations include an increment of value in the case of
each lot, arising from the improvement which I estimate as follows:
To the
Lot A.
has been added
$7,500
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$24,000
In other words I think the whole Markoe tract is worth today
by reason of the improvement $24,000 more than last year.
Now this increment has been made possible and has been brought
about by the co-operation of Mr Dorr in three ways.
(1) By giving a right of way over his land to the
Schooner Head Road.
(2) By his contribution to the cost of the road.
(3) By building the extension of the road north from the
Chase line thereby making it continuous.
Taking these un one by one I estimate (1) that the right of
way over Mr Dorr's land to the Schooner Head Road ought to be allowed
to him as equivalent to $4000. (2) that his money contribution
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to the construction of the road from the Chase line to the Schooner Head
Road should be allowed him in full. I do not know this amount But for
the present estimate it at $1,800 being one half the total cost.
(3)
Mr Dorr's land has we have seen benefitted by the improvement by bringing
to it greater publicity and additional opportunities for sales. The
advantages thus secured to him are I think properly to be offset against
the expenditure made by him on the section of the road north of the Chase
line.
The account will then stand thus:
Mr Dorr is to be charged with the value of
lots C & D
$10,000
He is to be credited
Value of Lot F
3,000
Value of right of way over his land
4,000
His contribution to cost of right of way $1,800
8,800
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$1,200
Mrs Markoe will then have received
Increment of value to her remaining land
$20,000
Cash from Mr Dorr
1,200
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$24,200
she will have parted with land worth $10,000
She will have paid for construction
1,800
11,800
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$12,400
In valuing lots C & D I have considered that Lot C is to be conveyed
in fee, that in the case of Lot D. Mrs Markoe reserves to herself a life
estate with restrictions forbidding the erection of buildings without
Mr Dorr's consent and with the right to Mr Dorr to remove all trees which
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may interfere with his view from any part of Lot C. That Lot F.
is to be conveyed in fee. That the boundary of Lot F. is to be the
centre of the new right of way and that the grant is to include all
Mr Dorr's rights in the Schooner Head Road to the centre thereof in
front of Lot F.
I have also considered that Mrs Markoe and Mr Dorr and all pur-
chasers from either of them of lands now owned by either of them
abutting on the new road shall have the right to use the same for
passage and re-passage etc. but not for the erection of poles, sur-
face pipes, or the like. That the power to grant the same rights to
others shall remain solely in Mrs Markoe and Mr Dorr jointly during
Mrs Markoe's life and after her death in Mr Dorri or his represen-
tatives solely. That the right to bring water pipes, electric
mains under the road, etc., shall not be granted by Mrs Markoe or
Im Dorr nor his granters
her grantees to any persons except those deriving title to lands
of him
now owned by her and that these restrictions shall be properly in-
corporated in agreements executed by them and that the beauty of
the present road and the outlook therefrom shall be provided for in
agreements satisfactory to the parties.
In all this I have taken no notice of the skill, time and thought
given by Mr Dorr to the whole matter. Given in the spirit of
neighborly kindness they can only be rewarded as such things are.
I am but too well aware that other persons of better judgment
than myself might differ from me in many particulars but after much
thought and many changes in figures I have concluded that the result
I have reached is as nearly equitable as I can make it.
September 24th, 1907.
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Notes with regard to the exchange of land etc.
The questions to be determined are:
First that of the increase in effective value, fair
asking price combined with opportunity to sell, given Mrs Markoe's
land by the new road, bringing people through, and by the new outlet
to the land 1tself the road affords.
Second, what part of that increase in value should
be credited to the land through which the outlet is obtained which
made the new road possible, and what part should remain with the land
benefited, the land to which the outlet is given. This really ro-
solves itself into a question of what price would it have been ad-
viseable for Mrs Markoe to pay for the opportunity to build such a
road as that which we have built together, in order to increase the
value of her land the road gives access to and her opportunity to
sell it.
Third, what are the relative values of the land which
it is proposed Mrs Markoe should acquire from me and I from her.
In estimating these it would be well also it seems to me to consider
what their values were before the road was built as well as now.
This would show what change in the estimated value had resulted
from the building of the road and the new outlet given and what
should be credited to these, on either side, on this account.
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her land from north to south down the valley, Mrs Markoe has two
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important building sites, the one on the ledge to which the road
I laid out for her last fall gives access and the other on the shore
itself, approached at present by the old right-of-way through the
Chase land. The land belonging to these two sites might be united
to form a single one including both the high ledge and the sea
frontage, or they might be subdivided into more than two. Between
them they have about twenty four acres all of which is valuable
residential land. Several acres more than this also really belongs
to these two sites, though now actually owned by Mrs Newbold, Mrs
Markoe's niece, to whom she has given it. In the future some other
division of this land than that established by the present Newbold
line will probably be made by the then owners, according to contour
lines. AS it now stands, some five or six acres of land held by
Mrs Newcold will be benefited along with the land retained by Mrs
Markoe, the rest of the Newbold land finding its natural exit through
Bear Brook valley to the Schooner Head Road.
All this land lying toward the shore is cut off iron the land
lying toward the Schooner Head Road by the 2-rod right-of-way and
the deep valley which it descends. Even if it were not for the
right-of-way which traverses it this valley forms a natural division
in Mrs Markoe's land, the lodges on either side of it being abrupt
and precipitous, except at the valley's head on the side toward the
sea. The southern extension of the hill which forms the western
bound of this valley is long and narrow, made wholly up of ledge and
precipitous on either side. The new road crosses it about 400 feet
from its southern end, by sloping up along the rock face upon either
side and by a cut at the top of the western edge. From that point
down to its southern end the ledge is nowhere over 120 feet across,
and is less than 80 feet in its upper portion next the road.
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eastern side is precipitous and its western side a low continuous
cliff, in which it also ends. The hill to the north of the new
road is broader but precipitous on its western side, as excert for
the new road it would on the eastern, and a good driving approach to
a house site on 1t would be difficult to get. This land rises but
little, for a good distance back, above the higher portion of the
lodge to the southern side of the new road, so that any building on
the latter would ruin this northern portion as a possible building-
site, and trees on it would be apt to cut off its view. There is
only one building site on the two pieces, in other words, and that
building sito owing to the narrowness of the southern portion would
best be found upon the northern part, but would be difficult of
approach so far as I have studied it, which is also still more
true of the southern portion. It is essential that this northern
part should control the southern, in my judgment, to give the latter
any value, for view or building. They form one piece naturally but
the two are cut off from each other by the new road. In estimating
the value of this land as it stood before the road was built and
still stands now in point of fact, it should be borne in mind that
it together with the whole of Mrs Markoe's upper land
has no
water supply. The only way in which water could be brought up to
it over Mrs Markoe's own land, or except through mine by courtesy,
would be by bringing a pipe up along the line between her land and
the Newbolds' from the Schooner Head Road near Bear Brook, and this
water would not rise to the higher level of her land either on
this ledge or on his main site
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and to her shore site also by the same pipe. Whether it would rise
in any case, in adequate supply and without pumping, to a building
site upon the upper portion of the inland ledge I doubt, but it could
easily be raised from either side by pumping.
The land lying to the north of the new road belonging to Mrs
Markoe is about six acres in extent; it consists partly of this
ledge and partly of lower land lying to the west of the ledge,
between it and iny land; this lower land is also rocky and without
view to give it value in itself.
The whole piece of land lying to the south of the new road,
between the right-of-way road in the valley and a line drawn down
the little valley that bounds the southern portion of the ledge upon
its western side is also about six acres in extent. The ledge OC-
cupies the central and western part of this; the rest is land about
its base which it should control. Its eastern boundary is the 2-rod
right-of-way; its southern, the Newbold line.
The western portion of Mrs Markoe's land, that lying to the west
of the ledge and bounded by it, by the Newbold line and the Schooner
Head Road, by my land and by the new road, is about nine acres in
extent and combined with three of mine, that lie to the south of the
new road with a long frontage on the Schooner Head Road, would make
another piece of residential property about twelve acres in extent.
Its building site is near the new road and would have a fine moun-
tain view, while the trees upon the land are beautiful and make the
land itself attractive. These things combined with its accessibility
and long road frontage, ought to make this site a saleable one at a
reasonable price, if rightly cleared. Its value comes from the new
road, which opens up its site, and from its combination with my land,
which gives it frontage. Its value, whatever it may be, has been
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The second question, that of the part of an increase in value
which should be credited to a new outlet giving it is difficult to
decide. It is usually settled beforehand by a purchase. And
I
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agreement before we began work unon the road
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however,
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happened. It resolves itself however quite
simply into a question of what it would be worth while for Mrs Markoe
to pay for such an outlet as the road affords, besides building the
road herself to take advantage of it, in view of the added value it
would give her land, including the land I take, and the increased
opportunity to sell it which it would be likely to result in. The
further question of the value to her land of the land which she pro-
poses to take from me, along the Schooner Head Road to the south of
the new road, could then be taken up as a separate question in rela-
tion to the land with which it would be associated in forming her
western lot. And then the question of the value of her land along
the southern extension of the hill, north and south of the new road,
which I would acquire in part payment, in whole payment, or in pay-
ment with a balance left for me to make good, of the benefits re-
coived by lirs Markoe from the new road and outlet.
Besides the value of the new road and outlet to her land a fair
allowance should be made me in this exchange, if the matter is to be
taken up upon a purely business basis, for what I have spent with her
on road-construction so far as her benefit from it is greater than my
own, as well as for the land she takes from me. There are thus four
questions to be considered in estimating what should be credited to
me
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First, the value to her land in general of the new outlet.
Second, a credit for road-construction, according to her greater
interest in the road.
Third, the value of the land which she receives from me.
Fourth, credit for opportunity given for connection with the
water supply through my land, according to similar arrangement made
last year with Harvard College and Luouer --- with the important
ex-
seption however that Mrs Markoe could bring in electric light and
telephone wires herself which they could not.
Beyond these, I feel that credit should be made me also for the
improvement of the old right-of-way both for its better course
and for its building mom in which Mrs Markoe has had no share, ac-
cording to the gain to her which it may constitute. I think that
this, in bringing what I think will become one of the pleasantest
roads of the town in pleasure driving close to her building sitos,
which lay remote before, will add greatly to the value of her land
and far more than a long avenue-like approach from the Schooner Head
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Markoe does not clearly realize at the present time, however.
The exchange first planned was based upon a different road line
than the present, upon a road that skirted the ledge lower down and
descended slightly instead of rising, giving better grade apparently
--- though it did not prove to be 80 really
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edge. This course would have left practically none of the ledge to
the southward of the road and no chance for any building to inter-
fore with the view from above, and but little for trees that might
do so. As I studied it over however, I saw that the present road
course was practicable and much better, and I changed to it. And
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my first thought then was that a restriction against building or
trees that might obstruct the view upon the southern portion placed
permanently upon this land would be enough. When I came to study
it over however I found that the lodge to the north of the road rose
for a good way back but little higher than the ledge to the south
of it in its upper portion, 80 that even a fence on it might rise
across the view. And talking it over with John Newbold, who walked
over the land and road line with ine at Mrs Markoe's suggestion, we
agreed that it was essential that the owner of the upper portion of
this land should also own the lower, to give it any value or make it
a site that any one would wish to build upon
the suggestion com
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restrictions would not be enough but would be likely to lead to end-
less complications and dispute. And the change also seemed to us
an unimportant one in view of the fact that if the lower portion of
the ledge were restricted from having any house or other structure
placed upon it as well as from trees obstructing the view from above
or aught that might disfigure it as a foreground to a view, little
remained tc give it value in sale to any one but the owner of the
land above.
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acquiescence when I read the papers over with her before beginning
work. But when I later sent them to her to sign, along with me,
so that our understanding in the matter might be evidenced in the
future, she raised objection to this and other points which she had
apparently acquiesced in previously and regarded the whole question
as still remaining open between us. The trees by that time had all
been cut along the line and work upon the road begun, so that there
seemed nothing for it but to go ahead and leave the question of
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arrangement to be settled when the road was done.
The understanding at this time was that we should build the road
together, sharing equally in its expense and that an exchange of land
in adjustment should follow its completion. And as I had no thought
of making the transaction a business one beyond such land exchange,
I said that if after I had taken the lot I needed on the ledge and
she the lot she needed along the Schooner Head Road and due allow
ance had been made for the benefit conferred upon her other land by
the road-building and new outlet, if it seemed that I was getting
more than she I would bay the balance due her for the land I took,
but that if the balance were the other way and I had got from her
the land I needed we would not weigh the matter further but look upon
It merely as a friendly exchange and not as a business matter. This
Mrs Markoe did not wish but said she wanted to make the whole trans-
action a burely business one. And 30 we agreed to do and left
it.
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her land upon the western ledge --- at its fair value. Mrs Markoe
told the that she wished to sell this land, and all her land, when I
planned out this road for her and the exchange. And it was upon
this
basis that we went ahead. Second, the restriction of the road
from poles, and wires above ground. Third, the restriction of a
suitable width of land along the roadside from building or from any
obvious disfigurement. Fourth, the agreement to charge upon her
land when sold a suitable obligation toward the good maintenance of
the road and its repair. Fifth, the retention to myself of the
right to give to or withhold from other owners than herself along
the general right-of-way the right to make Rse of the new road. This
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side along the right-of-way by buildings 0.0 otherwise. And sixth,
an agreement not to supply the Chase land with water or with tele-
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to do that, with the least disfigurement possible to land or road,
direct from the town along the former right-of-way and wish to have
the present or future owners of the Chase land join in that arrange
ment and share in its expense. And as I also wish to use what I
can offer them in this regard as an inducement toward a sale of this
land upon the hill corresponding to the land I got last year from
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