Kent McMillan, post: 363339, member: 3 wrote:
One thing that is interesting about E.A. Giraud's reconstruction of H & G N RR. Co. Block 2 is how he constructed Surveys 1 - 6 fronting on the Pecos.
It isn't clear to me how exactly he arrived at the position in which he monumented the West corner of Survey 1, for example.
Actually, I neglected to post the distances that Nelson actually gave along the sidelines of Surveys 1 and 2 in the Corrected Field Notes that he himself filed in the GLO to correct a large misclosure. With the actual record data for comparision, The logic of Giraud's reconstruction is clear enough:
Line Nelson Giraud Diff
NW 1 3736 3736 +0
SW 1 3704 3719 +15
NW 2 3819 3843 +24
SW 2 3903 3903 +0
NW 3 3843 3779 -64
SW 3 3757 3694 -63
NW 4 3785 3694 -91
SW 4 3815 3653 -162
NW 5 3825 3653 -172
SW 5 3775 3601 -174
NW 6 3580 3591 +11
SW 6 4020 4086 +66
Andy Nold, post: 363052, member: 7 wrote: In 1881, Giraud resurveyed along the south bank of the Pecos River for the Houston & Great Northern Railroad, setting wonderful 1-1/2" x 3' iron pipes almost every other section corner. In the area in question, a 28 acre area of unsurveyed land was left in between Section 27 and 26 from Giraud's survey. Section 26 did not receive a pipe at the southwest corner but has a witness pipe on line about 600 feet east. In 1905, Reeves County Surveyor, A.M. "hit-and-miss" Randolph received an application from a homesteader to map the unsurveyed public school land. Randolph submitted field notes that basically mirrored Giraud's gap except that he called for adding an additional stone mound at the southeast corner of the 28 acres and called for the common lines with 27 on the west and 26 on the east. I suspect Randolph's work may have been pencil whipped and no field work was done.
Fast forward to 1972, an unknown surveyor prepared a legal description for a deed. He found Giraud's original pipe at the southwest corner of the 28 acres and then the other original Giraud pipe two section corners to the east. These two original pipes have 54' of excess. The unknown surveyor did not call for finding Randolph's mound. He set a new 2" iron pipe for the southeast corner of the 28 acre gap and pushed all the excess acreage into the public school land tract resulting in 30.6 acres. There is no evidence of occupation on the surface and there are no monuments at the north end of 27, the gap or Section 26. After thinking about it, I agree with the 1972 surveyor. Another surveyor in my office say that because Giraud surveyed both sides of the gap, that his original survey controls and the gap must be prorated all the way through resulting in 29 acres.
Anyone settle the disagreement?
I just got a boundary in Survey 75, R. Talbot Survey, off of 35 & 36 H&GN.
Is that Block 2? We've done a bunch of right-of-way through there.
Andy Nold, post: 363798, member: 7 wrote: Is that Block 2? We've done a bunch of right-of-way through there.
Greg's project would probably be out of Scrap File 008485 surrounded by H&GN Block 4
That's an interesting stepstair section. But, it's south of any data I have.
Kent McMillan, post: 363802, member: 3 wrote: Greg's project would probably be out of Scrap File 008485 surrounded by H&GN Block 4
You are correct
Andy Nold, post: 363804, member: 7 wrote: That's an interesting stepstair section. But, it's south of any data I have.
We have 3 Giraud pipes and 2 Armstrong pipes and a couple local LSLS rebars.
My apologies for not reading very well, I "NOW" see you're in Block 2 and I'm in Block 4, so I'll just go back to my corner and say "DUH". ÷¼