Though I do not remember now the day because it's been longer than my daughter or I either one care to admit to, BUT, I could tell you almost to the day that she had her first crush on a boy. Her handwriting improved dramatically immediately. Had to look pretty when she wrote that boy's name...
- I'm throwing my vote in that it says "one rock mrkd NE1"
Thanks for the list of abbreviations, Andy. I didn't run across any geologic abbrs. either. I was thinking that "ane" might be an abbreviation for andesite, a volcanic rock. There is a Potato Hill Andesite in Brewster County, but I'm not sure that is anywhere close to your area.
So, I have a couple of questions now. Given that it reads "one rock mrkd NE1", why? The previous line is "1900 vrs a stone on N. side of Painted Mountain". If one presumes that "md" was inadvertently omitted, the next line indicates that one rock in that mound was scribed "NE1". Since it is the NE Cor. of 2, why the erroneous mark? It appears to also be the NE Cor. of Block 15, so I can see the possibility that the rock was later broken or missing the "5".
Interesting. I'm just trying to figure out why a rock in a supposedly found stone mound is not marked "NE2" or "NE II" unless it was set earlier as the NE Cor. of Block 15.
It's a "one" for me.
Andy Nold, post: 453707, member: 7 wrote: I've got it. I think it says "one" as in one of the rocks in the mound is marked NE1 (which is still weird). He neglected to say stone mound at the start of the sentence, but that was what he is typically setting was a rock mound.
Just a quick update on this strangely marked rock mound. Another surveyor tied the same corner in 1906. At this time, he noted that the rock was now marked N.E. 1 and N.E. 2. Apparently in the intervening 17 years, someone took the effort to add the correct designation to the stone.
sirveyr, post: 453743, member: 6680 wrote: What we've all learned from this is that cursive writing is dumb.
The Declaration of Independence is in cursive. Cursive isn't dumb. But there is sloppy.
I intentionally use cursive notes, just not sloppy. It's a skill that shouldn't be looked down upon or let go.
