The standard line corners prorated and on the curve, the shown bearings are grid:
It's so much easier to do these days;-)
They hand out literary awards to fiction writers, you know.
Yeah, hate to prorate,,,,,,,
Four miles and found all but that one mon......
If you were missing only one monument, how did you end up with three ~half-mile distances coming out the same to a tenth? Was the original survey that precise?
I found the monument for the s1/4 of 32, but it had slid down a steep slope into a ravine, only pits were set as accessories, so monument found but not the corner
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To clarify my point: It is quite rare, isn't it, to find original GLO monuments such that the south line of sec 32 was twice the west half of sec 33, to the tenth of a foot.
You seem to have found such a case, unless there is more proportioning here than replacing the one monument you discuss.
I agree, it would be rare indeed.
I found the monuments for the SW of S32, the S1/4 of S32, and the S1/4 of S33, leaving only the SW of S33 undiscovered.
But monuments aren't always corners, in this case the S1/4 of S32 had been removed from it's original position along a steep loose side slope and fell down the hill to the bottom of a ravine 40 feet or so south of the standard line.
So the corner needs to be monumented at the prorate position, the monument will be buried alongside. The notes only described pits as being dug as accessories, and no indication of where or how far away.