Well I am studying for the Texas exam for this coming October and noticed that one of the recommended study resources was an Introduction to Texas Land Surveying by M.E. Spry. I have also noticed this book is not available to purchase and hard to locate at a library willing to check it out, let alone sell it. E-bay and Amazon are no help either and I have even place a call with a bookstore that specializes in finding hard to find books. So I figured I would hit up the great community here and see if anyone knew if there was a PDF version out there or if someone has a copy they are willing to sell or (with the promise of an arm and a leg/ or an agreed upon price)let me borrow?
Cy
University of Texas at Austin's Briscoe Center for American History
A Guide to the Irving H. Webb Texas Surveyors Collection, 1836-1976
link to web site
Mr. Webb's collection includes a copy in box 3P328. You might check and see if it's on microfilm.
There are bootleg scans of the Spry book floating around. I will see if I can find a copy of it. As I understand, Chapter 10 looked for his heirs to get permission to reprint the book. It was believed he had a daughter, but she was no longer in the Odessa area.
Having reviewed the Spry publication for my RPLS test eleven years ago, I feel that Ken Gold adequately covers the same material that is in Spry so that if you have "Decisions", you will not be missing anything by not having read Jack's book. My opinion. Others may disagree.
Perhaps Lance Armour has a copy?
I have the book in my records that I got from my grandfather when he took the test. I do believe we may have a copy of it scanned in. I'll see what I can find on our server.
I do still have my copy of Decisions and that is another publication recommended by TSPS. Not a bad idea to check with Lance though.
Thanks Matthew.
Thanks, I will check into that as well.
The history in that book is interesting and useful for study.
However, almost all of the laws cited are out of date.
I would recommend learning more of the Texas Natural Resources Code that apply to land surveying.
Ken Gold's book is out of date also; there has been promised updates. Naturally, Spry's book
being older has more things out of date.
Could you imagine some kids at your junior college (Tyler) citing a bunch of court
cases and then a few parties on your board of registration calling them PRECEDENTS??
It wasn't chapter 10, it was me and Doug Loveday w/TSPS trying to locate Spry's family. I will email you a copy unless someone can tell me how to attach it.
Me spry, too, but not nearly as spry as me used to be. Me getting old now.
