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Found a P-K nail (traverse point) set in 1958 today…
This is a pleasant surprise. It was Walker’s traverse point set near the 1/16 Cor set by Hanby (sic-should be Hamby) on the map below. We previoulsy found the 1-1/4″ I.P. P.O.B., the 3/4″ I.P. Edmonds S.E. Corner, the 3/4″ I.P. (east of the 1/16 cor), and the the 2″ I.P. NW of the 3/4″ I.P. Unfortunately the 3/4″ I.P. south of the 164.16′ distance is lying on the ground out there, the victim of a utility pole crew. Walker traverse from the P.O.B. north to the 3/4″ I.P. then the traversed from the P.O.B. east to the black dot at the fence corner (it’s in a huge pile of blackberry bushes), the northwest through the I.P.s on the take line to the pipe that was knocked out. I have adjusted his traverse in StarNet then fit it to selected common points. First I found the 1/16 corner which fit very well to my estimate of its position (except it is bent), then I found another pipe in Walker’s notes but not on the map below, then I almost forgot to look for the P-K but I went over there. It looks pretty cut up, but Dan hit the spot with the claw of the hammer, tink, then carefully started cleaning the dirt of the rock and much to our surprise there is the P-K, still there. So now I have Walker’s traverse point which I staked out within about 0.05′.
We found #18 and both pipes tied from it. The pipe “on the rail fence line” is flush and undisturbed. The P-K nail is undisturbed.
The instrument is set up over the P-K nail. The tripod/target is over the undisturbed pipe. The other pipe (bent) is in the background:
Here is the found P-K nail set in a rock:
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