wonderful reports from our inner kingdom of oz jack
this is why you are king for the life of us2
it never occurred to me to use this resource this way
you are undoubtedly right that we have work to do at okksco
as they call it
or coksok
as you rightly named it first
i sure hope it is just a lug wrench & flashlight job tho
because if it is pick & shovel service
i am out of my depth with only an army foldup spade
& i really would like to look into it while chasing indians next month
as for ksmook
i still really really want to contine to believe in your original
identification of the valuable brass pin
& my subsequent identification of the apparent pothole left by its pilferage
& joyces ultimate confirmation of the asphalt patch atop the pothole
all fully consistent with each other & the usgs topo
the huge federal makework monument seems to me almost pure folk art
& its location on the apparent ksok line suggests missouri may have said
show me or somehow just couldnt get with the program
i agree tho that it would be good to find more definitive info on this spot
at least so the rest of the world doesnt have to take our word for it
also in both cases unsure exactly how much of this site to trust really
especially in view of their whimsical comments made about surveys & surveyors
& their faithful reproduction of mistakes you also spotted
& please do consider me fully enlisted for both of these very interesting
outposts of your & our great realm
m
> Michael, Did you peruse any of the other locations on the
>ksphototour site? Check #48 Southwest Three Corner Monument and you will
>find that four feet under the manhole plate in the center of the road
>near the windmill is the original marker stone. It was moved there
>after a couple of surveys located the correct location. So this is
>another one where we should have pried up the cover. I noticed in #51
>NW Corners Monument that they repeated the spelling error which exists
>in the bronze plaque. Oliver Chaffee's name is spelled Caffee in the
>first mention of his name and later is spelled correctly. Also #66 SE
>Corner Monument, they show and describe only the big stone cairn. We
>need more definitive info on this spot. Jack -----Original
>Message-----From: michael donner [mailto:m@...]Sent: Friday,
>March 16, 2001 9:49 PMTo: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.comSubject: Re:
>[BoundaryPoint] toward happier obelisks
>i just realized also that there are some extremely thin
> but still realobelisks in many places along the caus & mxus
> lines& http://ksphototour.8m.com/meridian.htm
> may save you a trip to the scannerjack for the quintiobelisktho
> a better pic of the novel quintipyramid at the top of this monument ifyou
> have one would still be a real thrill to
> seem>>well thanx for running down that
> obelisk peter>& i do apologize for the horrendously bad
> query>>it was the resemblance between hoogstift & stifter
> that got me in dutch &>czech here
> simultaneously>>seriously glad to learn this is not an olympic
> contender tho>since the tallest actual tripoint & boundary obelisk
> i know of is the>little one at us2ctmari>of which a photo is
> attached below>>taller & more distinctive than this
> one>tho i have only half a pic of it & am hoping jack can bail me
> out here with>a good pic because he just visited there last
> year>is the commemorative quintiobelisk that stands a short distance
> from the>initial point of the sixth principal meridian of the united
> states public>land survey>>the actual point it
> celebrates>hidden in a crypt beneath a roadway>is simultaneously
> also both an interstate & a quadricounty point>or
> us2ksne3jerethwa6pm in all i think by name>>the
> obelisk is a quinti because lands of 5 states were surveyed from
> this>point of reference>>m