Subject: Re: Sv: [BoundaryPoint] binational quadripoints<br/>
Date: Oct 03, 2000 @ 08:20<br/>
Author: michael donner (michael donner &lt;m@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-612322864"><blockquote><span title="ireply">&gt;<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;Several Indian reservations in the US are also chequerboards fo squares,<br/>
&gt;each 1 square mile. Like a chequerboard, the black squares belong to the<br/>
&gt;natives, and the white squares to the whites... ironic, huh? ;-) See the<br/>
&gt;area around Palm Springs especially.  Often Federal land is also in such a<br/>
&gt;pattern. The DeLorme state topographic road atlases often have a central<br/>
&gt;page for the SW states, showing land ownership by Fed dept, private, state<br/>
&gt;etc.<br/>
&gt;<br/>
&gt;Brendan<br/>
<br/>
 </span></blockquote>this checkered reservation of the agua caliente indians at palm springs is<br/>
well worth the peek on topozone<br/>
<br/>
also the statement about it on their tribal home page<br/>
<br/>
the elegant parquet pattern is thought to have been the brainstorm of<br/>
president ulysses grant<br/>
<br/>
a railroad company was awarded the alternating squares<br/>
<br/>
the game proved to be a win for both sides<br/>
<br/>
the tribe made & continues to make a killing on the palm springs resort<br/>
<br/>
the checkered effect is a little out of whack in places because the public<br/>
land section corners dont always match up<br/>
& there has been a little nibbling around the edges in places<br/>
but there is little doubt that about 55 perfect boundary crosses do occur<br/>
in this ragged patchwork of about 50 mostly even numbered sections of 3<br/>
townships<br/>
<br/>
also the boundary does appear to be a single continuous line & the<br/>
reservation territory an unbroken network<br/>
but sections 16 & 36 are missing from each of the 3 townships<br/>
& there are many seemingly random pattern breaks as well in what might have<br/>
originally been a perfect 12 by 12 grid but for its entirely missing<br/>
southeast quarter<br/>
<br/>
actually if it had been a real chess board the indians would have had the<br/>
white squares & the railroad the black<br/>
<br/>
so much is missing tho that it seems more like a complex hydrocarbon<br/>
molecule branching off in several directions than a simple gridwork<br/>
<br/>
there even appears to be a nuclear area comprising 8 or 9 fully contiguous<br/>
sections thanx to narrow passageways that chance to occur between their<br/>
corners<br/>
& there are chains of 11 & 29 peneexclaves  respectively  extending to the<br/>
southwest & northeast of the nucleus<br/>
each of them linked to it in 3 places<br/>
<br/>
14 peneenclaves of nonreservation lands are also entirely surrounded by<br/>
reservation lands<br/>
<br/>
there is one particularly weak link where the whole assemblage could fall<br/>
apart into nearly equal halves if a common corner were rubbed out<br/>
& there are several simpler peripheral crosses resembling the one at jungholz<br/>
but otherwise there is redundancy & alternative boundary paths everywhere<br/>
you look<br/>
<br/>
in places the intermingling peneenclave units & chains are just like second<br/>
order enclaves in their effective isolation<br/>
<br/>
carroll & escher couldnt have done a better job<br/>
<br/>
as an independent country agua caliente would be terrific<br/>
<br/>
even as the tertiary or quaternary level political unit that it is<br/>
it is multi fantastic<br/>
<br/>
m</div>