Unique and clever marking on Stone marking the Center ?¬ of a Section in Utah.
I'm pretty sure that I have posted this before, but it's been a while (just came across the photo while looking for something else).
Very Cool!!!
Thank you for posting again!
A submission for Wendell's calendar photo contest?
As "+" marks the spot, that is on the side of the stone. ???? ???? ?????ÿ
As "+" marks the spot, that is on the side of the stone. ???? ???? ?????ÿ
Nope!
The picture is the TOP of the stone (about 10"x16" or so), we didn't dig it up, but it appeared to be pretty deep and very solid. Not a GLO monument, as near as we could determine, it was probably set in the late 1800's by the County Surveyor (original GLO survey done in 1856, no C?¬s set).
Considering farming and timber harvesting were already going on at the time of the surveys I'm convinced private or county surveyors were following right behind the GLO contractors.
We have some field notes 12 years after and he was finding multiple stakes at the corners, it just so happens we have his notes, most of the records were lost to history.
Logging causes erosion and big slides. He said one corner is in a big fresh slide. I??ve been there, very steep, there??s a redwood post, not the original but if we didn??t have the later notes we??d never know.
This is one from the summer:
it has a C over an S broken by a scribed line, my bad not exposing the S better
County Line Stone:
Set in August of 1892 by A.J. Stookey (Tooele County Surveyor) and N.P. Anderson (Box Elder County Surveyor).
Matt Clark (then Deputy Tooele County Surveyor, now BLM Surveyor) and the famous Spud (Now going on 23 years old).
Loyal
It's been a while since you have mentioned Spud.?ÿ Was it Spud because, at the time, he wasn't big enough to be a Tater?
@holy-cow Something like that (long story). He came up to visit this summer with his girl friend, I hadn't seen him in several years (he moved about 400 miles away). He is now taller than Matt!