In order to have witness trees there, first, must be trees to be found. Second, what is this topography call of which you speak? Miles and miles of flat, six-feet tall prairie grass looks pretty much like miles and miles of six-feet tall prairie grass.
Holy Cow, post: 411118, member: 50 wrote: In order to have witness trees there, first, must be trees to be found. Second, what is this topography call of which you speak? Miles and miles of flat, six-feet tall prairie grass looks pretty much like miles and miles of six-feet tall prairie grass.
There were and are mesquites growing on the uplands and trees of different species along drains and wallows. The prairie itself had features such as drains and low rises that the line would cross. The early Texas surveyors tended to be fairly good about describing the handful of corners that they actually marked on the ground so that the fictitious "stake and mound" calls stand out in contrast.
What you see in mountainous territory out here is calls for spurs and gulches in the first half mile and nothing in the second half mile but they ran the whole mile, yes they did, and they corrected and came back on the true line, just like the notes say they did.