Mike,
Here are pictures of three holes in the
ground. Actually, the
hole is gone at the first one, ks-mo-ok
tripoint. Joyce didn't
wet her pants. That's a fairly fresh blacktop
patch over what
I assume is the spot where the hole was. No
evidence of the
brass pin could be found, so we still have a
problem with this
one. Picture taken 9-29-00.
While we were in the process of popping the
man hole cover
at the 6th
Principal Meridian on 10-9-00 a car drove up. At first
I was afraid we were in trouble but it was surveyor
Leroy Gerrard
from Strongburg, NE and a friend. Leroy had
been there in 1987
when they had the dedication ceremony for the new
monument.
It was the first time he had been back, and he was
amazed to
see a NY license plate car there.
He and his friend helped me
finish moving the man hole plate (picture
below). Then we
cleaned the marker in the hole and took a
picture but the photo
was not as good as
the cover plate photo, so that's the picture I
picked to send.
On 10-11-00 we popped the cover at in-mi-oh.
The stainless plate
was very dirty, so we washed it off and polished it
a little so that
it would photograph better. Too bad that the
granite witness post
got broken. It was intact when we were there
in 1991.
Jack