Today's finds.

A little to the South and a long ways East, but still Montana. T16N, R58E P.M.M. N1/4 of Section 36. A rare find, the GLO surveyor was a notorious pencil whipper(by Montana GLO surveyor standards). IF he was there and ran the line, it was 5400' to 5600' to the mile. Random lines were truly random. This one wasn't too bad, only about 60 feet and about 18 feet from the monumented 1/4 corner.

PINCUSHION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

jpb, post: 361251, member: 9284 wrote: A little to the South and a long ways East, but still Montana. T16N, R58E P.M.M. N1/4 of Section 36. A rare find, the GLO surveyor was a notorious pencil whipper(by Montana GLO surveyor standards). IF he was there and ran the line, it was 5400' to 5600' to the mile. Random lines were truly random. This one wasn't too bad, only about 60 feet and about 18 feet from the monumented 1/4 corner.

Nice find!!!

Someone set a prorate 60 plus feet away?

Good you found it, hope it doesn't cause too much damage.

Here's a close-up of the n1/4 of s36

Here's the stone mound and witness post I set to the west of the corner.

This is a picture of the Missions from last evening- eat your heart out concrete dwellers

MightyMoe, post: 361104, member: 700 wrote: Although, it also looks like it has a mound of stone, so maybe the "pit" is just coincidental

I'll be in the office tomorrow and try to post the notes. I'm pretty sure they raise the mound of stone and "pits impracticable"d all of them. I really want to get this job knocked out SOON.....I'm not a big fan of Jake No-Shoulders....

Rankin_File, post: 361080, member: 101 wrote: The Standard corners are on the 5th std p. N. T23w and 24W, the 1/4 is the N1/4 S36, T21N R24W P. M.,M.

When I return for the 2nd ties next week, I plan to load a bunch of stone into the back of the rig and raise a mound near the corner in the top photo. Not a lot available at the site. The SC with the curly serifs had some stome available so I built that mound but spaced out taking a photo.... I'll get that on the 2nd Tie.

All of these corners will be well documented with Corner recs. Including SPC, but more importantly, ties to nearby reference marks.