I haven't seen this before:
It's not adjoining my project, just in a big deed which eventually adjoins my project in another parcel.
The assessor shows it like this, seems reasonable:
Parcel 1 is USA - Butte Valley National Grasslands (USDA-FS)
Parcel 5 is State of California - Dept. of Fish & Wildlife (they are in the Resources Agency with us).
Essentially the Grasslands are Federal (by Deed) and Meiss "Lake" is State Fish & Wildlife.
....that's a new one for me. Thanks for sharing.
Interesting. Haven't seen this one before but it makes sense to me and seems reasonable.
T. Nelson - SAM
That's funny. I just saw one like that recently too.
Yeah, first I've seen anything like that as well.
I believe that is actually a Monroe Comptometer. The one we use at the trolley barn for counting the daily fares was electric. No more sore arm from rotating the crank.
I've seen that before, but I don't like it and it being in a lotted portion of a section makes it messy.?ÿ
So,,,,,,,,,what does the patent say?
I've only seen it twice. One had a significant kink in occupation at the 16th corner, the other was occupied 'straight'. I waa thankful for peace in both cases...
In the boyhood home county of Squirltech there were quite a number of county roads laid out running on diagonals.?ÿ Many were from the northeast corner of a section to the southwest corner of the section, for example.?ÿ In other cases they might go two or three miles to the west and one mile to the south on whatever bearing that works out to be.
Those that ran from section corner to section corner effectively provided the opportunity to split land similar to what DK is showing.
I don't believe any of those diagonal roads exist today.?ÿ But, there is a huge map in the Register of Deeds Office showing all of the early roads in the county.
I believe that is actually a Monroe Comptometer. The one we use at the trolley barn for counting the daily fares was electric. No more sore arm from rotating the crank.
Comptometer was a key operated machine. Press keys and they add into the register. No levers or cranks. It has a lever which clears the register. Skilled Comptometer operators could add columns of numbers very fast. Comptometer ran the largest private training school for a while.
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I've seen that before, but I don't like it and it being in a lotted portion of a section makes it messy.?ÿ
So,,,,,,,,,what does the patent say?
the patent is a cash entry patent into a robber baron in Sacramento of a lot of sections throughout the township.
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I believe that is actually a Monroe Comptometer. The one we use at the trolley barn for counting the daily fares was electric. No more sore arm from rotating the crank.
Having seen this elsewhere it appears Comptometer was possibly used like Kleenex, a generic term for adding machines.?ÿ Monroe calculating machines were not made by the Comptometer Company (as far as I know) which made a different type of adding machine.?ÿ There was a surprising variety of adding machines before electronic calculators destroyed the commercial viability of them and slide rules.?ÿ A few slide rules are still made, there is one circular slide rule available on Amazon and a few specialty ones, the most notable being the venerable E6B Flight Computer.
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