The task on Friday was to start surveying 5 miles of boundary line. Friday I was able to find 9 of the 11 corners needed. One corner is going to be a problem, hopefully the next time I'm out I will be able to recover it's position. The line in question ends at the Center of the Township.
The last corner to recover was there and like some other center township corners in the region it was marked with notches and scribed with the T and R:
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Only the R was left which was on the east face.?ÿ
Those are always really cool! I believe that the requirement to mark the common Corner of Sections 15,16,21 and 22 with the Township and Range began with the 1894 Manual (see page 35, CORNERS COMMON TO FOUR SECTIONS).
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I haven't done any townships in the 1895-1900 years, this one is 1905, just before they started setting brass caps. Then in the early cap years some of the old GLO surveyors would notch the caps, which I thought was really cool.?ÿ
Also, too, the marking of the center corner of the township with the township and range is in the 1902 Manual. It applies for townships where at least half of the corners in the township are marked stones. With the introduction of the model iron post in the 1919 Advance Sheets, the practice was ended.