If so, you're not alone. I found these GLO brass caps the other day.
I've spent some time searching in for my 'S' stamp in the weeds before, and now my stamps are all painted bright yellow and magnetized so that they make the locator sing.
Seems like it's always the 'S' stamp that gets lost, too. There are several letters in my set that I don't think I have ever used. I've thought about replacing one or two of them with a spare 'S', but I know as soon as I do, I'll need that letter.
It appears that he did not stamp these caps in the order that the field notes say he set them. The 1/4 corner common to 11 and 14 uses the 'S' stamp, but there are corners set before and after it that do not.
Can you find the cap that is stamped incorrectly?
2 Section 13s, one of them south of Section 11.
those are interesting pics- looks like the monument guy was having a rough day in general... fwiw. the 3,2,10 &11 and the 1/4 S11/s12... the stamping in the photos appears RAISED depending on the length of time I look at them....
I don't think the "1/4" in the middle between the section numbers is not standard either. [USER=228]@Loyal[/USER] should chime in on this...
[sarcasm]plus any state worth living in doesn't have 44 townships west of the principal meridian....[/sarcasm] :whistle:
I got a little chuckle out of that. There's a township I do a lot of work in originally surveyed in 1915 and the crew lost their 'S' stamp die. An inverted 5 was their choice of a replacement. Every time I find one stamped like that I feel some kind of strange personal connection with those guys a hundred year later.
Just because I'm paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't out to get me.
That would depend somewhat on whether or not the principal meridian was even located in the same State.
Holy Cow, post: 338726, member: 50 wrote: That would depend somewhat on whether or not the principal meridian was even located in the same State.
actually- it doubles down if your principal meridian isn't even in your state's boundaries.... :snarky:
John Thompson, post: 338713, member: 9631 wrote: If so, you're not alone. I found these GLO brass caps the other day.
I've spent some time searching in for my 'S' stamp in the weeds before, and now my stamps are all painted bright yellow and magnetized so that they make the locator sing.
Seems like it's always the 'S' stamp that gets lost, too. There are several letters in my set that I don't think I have ever used. I've thought about replacing one or two of them with a spare 'S', but I know as soon as I do, I'll need that letter.
It appears that he did not stamp these caps in the order that the field notes say he set them. The 1/4 corner common to 11 and 14 uses the 'S' stamp, but there are corners set before and after it that do not.
Can you find the cap that is stamped incorrectly?
Yes, I have lost the S, it's easy when there is snow on the ground, and two c's make a pretty good S. For me I have two sets in the truck, one is missing many letters, like the Q and the Z, but I never used them anyway.
not sure what was going on with the 1/4. :-S
We found a similar instance in the Black Hills where the surveyor used the number "8" for the letter "S". The text should read T 5 S S 34.
I own an L that's in a ditch (colleague was stamping a disk in the middle of a headwall), and somewhere on the floor of my garage is another letter (don't recall which) that I've not yet been able to find.
I now have 3 stamp sets...