Experience only has already been closed in Utah. It's a two year surveying degree or another degree and about 30 hours survey classes with 4 years e...

I think the plan is to be ABET within 5 years. Can a new program start out ABET?Once this program has gone a few years Utah will require a 4-year deg...

Yeah, you also and everybody else!

Homemade Handle BatteriesI made my own batteries sort of like what you are going to do. I just did away with the case. Made some wires that connect ...

Nice pictures. I like #14 the most. I've learned how to do few "special" tripod setups myself.

Subdivision of Section 12 & 13So you have a strange brew on the east also. So if you are going to set the quarters on the west according to the p...

Subdivision of Section 12 & 13Wasn't 1855 the year of the first Manual. Maybe the office guys had it and the field guys were still working from so...

Subdivision of Section 12 & 13I'm looking at T 15 S R 4 E. Mogo in 1856. He did it the same way started at south boundary between S 31 and S 32 ...

Standard to call all normal sections 640 acres even though they are not exactly 80 chains east/west. It's hard to figure out the lots, 40.13 acres s...

I can see where you are coming from, everyone makes a little mistake once in awhile. BUT why worry about it if the county reviewer will catch it for ...

I'm just curious. We all know there is a lot of varying surveying so what you report doesn't surprise me at all. I've looked at enough filed surveys...

1871 GLO stones. There are 1855-56 GLO surveys but posts were used and I have never seen one but have been to positions supposed to be perpetuations....

What, no Osage Orange in the way?

Actually the caption from the newspaper is incorrect. Stanton did find a route for the railroad all the way to the Pacific. They we not able the get...

4 volumes of Stanton's NotesHere are links to the four volumes of expedition notes at the New York Library:Stanton Field Notes 1Stanton Field Notes 2S...

Pictures and repeat pictures USGSI found many of the pictures and also repeat pictures by USGSStanton PicsIt seems there a quite a few books. The lat...

Stanton's notes - RR down the Colorado RiverI found some of Stanton's Journal of the expedition. I've always wondered how some of the railroad routes...

Generally speaking, not directed at anyone directly,When I run out of work I stop. Stopped many times, do other things. One thing I try not to do is...