These have to be some of the smallest GLO stones I have heard of, which by definition are actually mound memorials and not corner monuments. The 1855 Manual (page 6) states to place a mound memorial at the corner location. The deputy is working in 1857 in eastern Nebraska.
The stones in the notes below are 4"x3"x2" marked "1/4" for the 1/4 corner and 3"x2"x2" for the section corner. Also, the use of iron spikes for a memorial this early is unheard of. Nice job Justis Cozad!
J. Penry, post: 356030, member: 321 wrote: These have to be some of the smallest GLO stones I have heard of, which by definition are actually mound memorials and not corner monuments. The 1855 Manual (page 6) states to place a mound memorial at the corner location. The deputy is working in 1857 in eastern Nebraska.
The stones in the notes below are 4"x3"x2" marked "1/4" for the 1/4 corner and 3"x2"x2" for the section corner. Also, the use of iron spikes for a memorial this early is unheard of. Nice job Justis Cozad!
In the early 1980's, 81 or 82, when surveying a gas pipe line route South of Buffalo, Wyoming, we encountered a å? corner stone about this same size as called for in the notes. The corner was in the bottom of a swale with scattered rox of approximately this size all around the area. Didn't really think that we had a snowballs chance in Hades of finding it, but we did. It was lying loose on the surface and was plainly marked å?. The position where it was located fit real well between both section corners and appeared to have not moved much in about 70 or 80 years since the time it was established. Seems like we recovered one or two more of the same size also.
Perhaps you should have doused it with a solution of water and Viaigra to see if it would grow.:-O:-$;-)
Note: Please forgive the apparent spelling error. Just learned a forbidden word.
Now those stone memorials are a very rare find.
Except for HES surveys I've only heard of one that's been found, and that one involved a dozer brushing line.
Surveyor had the dozer slowly take off a few inches at a time and turned it up.
