It is a beautiful canyon.?ÿ As a geologist, it has one of the most beautiful rock formations in Colorado, the Phantom Canyon Augen Gneiss.?ÿ The rock was originally a granite intrusive with very large crystals (phenocrysts in geology-speak) of potassic-rich feldspar.?ÿ During a metamorphic event, the granite was deformed and the feldpar crystals were "rolled", creating the look of eyes.?ÿ Augen is German for eye, therefore the name.
I've been wanting to visit the area again sometime, if for no other reason than to photograph the very nice, gneiss.?ÿ I cannot find any close-up photos online....drat!
?ÿI look forward to seeing you and some other old, crusty surveyors in Vegas!
Here's my great-grandfather's original homestead patent.?ÿ No pics of the soddy that stood there for a few winters though.
Interestingly both my grandmother and her son (my father)?ÿwere born on this quarter.?ÿ I had a great aunt that for years kept the old iron bed frame that aided in both of those births and I believe her birth as well.?ÿ Someone in the family ostracized her for letting the bed go in an estate sale.?ÿ Her remark?ÿwas something along the lines of, "Lord, why would anybody keep that old thing around just because of that?"
A frame farmhouse came not long after. My father did remember the sod dug-out from his childhood though.?ÿ At that time (early nineteen twenties) it contained several 5 gallon crocks used as Leyden jars that were hooked up to a DC wind generator.?ÿ My great grandfather?ÿused them?ÿto power one small lamp and a radio he listened to of an evening.
Paden, in the legal description pdf you posted does it say "Indian" meridian? If so, what is it?
Here's my great-grandfather's original homestead patent.?ÿ No pics of the soddy that stood there for a few winters though.
Interestingly both my grandmother and her son (my father)?ÿwere born on this quarter.?ÿ I had a great aunt that for years kept the old iron bed frame that aided in both of those births and I believe her birth as well.?ÿ Someone in the family ostracized her for letting the bed go in an estate sale.?ÿ Her remark?ÿwas something along the lines of, "Lord, why would anybody keep that old thing around just because of that?"
A frame farmhouse came not long after. My father did remember the sod dug-out from his childhood though.?ÿ At that time (early nineteen twenties) it contained several 5 gallon crocks used as Leyden jars that were hooked up to a DC wind generator.?ÿ My great grandfather?ÿused them?ÿto power one small lamp and a radio he listened to of an evening.
Paden, in the legal description pdf you posted does it say "Indian" meridian? If so, what is it?
It's the "Indian Meridian," as opposed to [say] the "Salt Lake Meridian" or "6th Principal Meridian."
All of Oklahoma EXCEPT the Panhandle?ÿwas surveyed based on the Indian Base &?ÿMeridian established in 1870.
