So we were out in Section 5, T10NR29E G&SRM today. At the corner of Sections 6,5,8 and 7 we find an aluminum post monument marked as the Section corner next to a mound of stone. Lying next to the aluminum post was a malapias stone with 5 grooves on the north and 5 grooves on the east. Deeply chiseled and pretty. We were suspicious cause this was the only original marked like that. So as we are rebuilding the mound; low and behold here is a malapia faintly marked on the east face covered with lichen. No markes on the south. My guess is the other guys found the mound but could not find the marked stone or could see it so they monumented the mound. Not a bad thing. Because of the disturbance we had no choice but to accept the aluminum post. At least we know that the original was there. The GLO surveyor in this township marked his monuments poorly but built distinctive mounds so we feel good about it. This we learned from experience. I just wish the other guys didn't play with a chisel.
Could the original stone have been tossed aside by the aluminum post setter? Or did the aluminum post setter make the mound?
That happens here also, some of the older guys would set a new marked stone. One guy would mark a new stone with a 1/16 at a 1/8th stone and put the 1/16 on top of the 1/8th stone. Another guy would mark a stone and add his initials.
I didn't want to get to lengthy but the other guys plat says they found a "pile of rocks" so I beleive the location I happen to believe they just missed the original stone and made one.
yeah there is a lot of that here also
Had a another crew's "corner searcher" put the original 1/4 corner stone he "couldn't find" in the pile of rock he used to hold the lath up marking his search pointo.O .
THE BLM in MT for several years put their new pipe and cap monuments alongside the existing stone. If one didn't have the notes it was confusing which to use.:-S
>a 1/8th stone
Is that another long-running debate, whether it should be called a 1/16 corner? I hadn't run into the 1/8 designation before, and the BLM seems to use 1/4 1/16 1/64 as that is the fraction of the area divided by corners at successive halvings of distance.
The 1/8th stones were set along the east west section lines and the east west centerline breaking the section into 8 parts
3 mile method?
A modified version, not sure it has a name, they only added the east west centerline