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FOA and FOH stamping on brass cap

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(@summerprophet)
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i meant to look this up, but my books are at the office, and will likely forget tommorow.

Found a brass cap at the edge of the road today, beside what I am guessing is an original stone. The cap was marked as follows:
US Government Land Office Survey
$250 fine for removal
WC
FOA
FOH
S2 | S1
1/4
1932

My question is what is the FOA and FOH stamping? I haven't seen that before.

Thanks

 
Posted : July 28, 2016 9:25 pm
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summerprophet, post: 383093, member: 8874 wrote: My question is what is the FOA and FOH stamping?

I'd be looking at the field notes for a clue to that.

 
Posted : July 28, 2016 10:05 pm
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Excellent question. The standard search for those terms doesn't reveal anything plausible.

Maybe Frederick Oscar Adams and Frank Oliver Henderson were the surveyors.

 
Posted : July 29, 2016 4:20 am
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Stupid computer fooled me into making a double post. Sorry.

 
Posted : July 29, 2016 4:24 am
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Solved! Well kind of.

Following Mark Mayers advice above, I looked into the field notes.

The east half on the north 1/4 is identified as Farm Unit A, while the east half of the south 1/4 is identified as Farm unit H.

That almost explains the FOA and FOH. All I have to do now is find a U letter die lost in 1932, to confirm what I think likely happened. Or perhaps it was a deliberate mistake and went down as Mr. Cow suggests.

I am guilty of that myself I suppose. In 1999 we had a 250 km pipline project, and set the intersection on pipeline R2 and D2, and stamped R2D2 on the cap. Seeing as R2D2 never really seemed happy alone, we revisited pipeline C3 (20 kilometers away) and replaced a pin we had set the previous day with a cap. As it was a point on line, we stamped the cap as C3PO...... And failed to stamp the L.

In was kind of an inside joke, but I always wondered if anyone would ever catch it...........

 
Posted : July 30, 2016 8:20 pm
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summerprophet, post: 383458, member: 8874 wrote: And failed to stamp the L

You must have used one of my stamp sets. The L flew out of a colleague's hand and into a canal.

 
Posted : July 31, 2016 9:05 am