--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
<mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
> Mike,
>
> Many such survey parties hauled into the field a pre-engraved rock
for placement
> at the appropriate spot. After this line was repudiated, perhaps
they removed
> the rock for reuse at the next selected point.
i would give your removal idea more than a perhaps
since i am unaware of any standing bogus rock anywhere in the world
& imagine rocks of this sort must be assiduously eliminated by
whichever party eventually gains possession of them
& that alone is really why i think i set myself a fools errand from
the start
but i would not give your reuse idea half a perhaps
since such stones are usually dated & treaty specific & even survey
specific
& several years & agreements had elapsed in this case
Since the negotiations stalled
> until after the Gadsden Purchase rendered it moot, it might have
never seen
> reuse. Perhaps, though, it might eventually have been used to mark
the
> departure of the post-Gadsden MXUS line from the Rio Grande when
that line was
> surveyed in 1855. Both surveys were superintended for the US by
William Hemsley
> Emory.
yes
looks like emory must have been the missing 4th commissioner & the
ultimate abortionist in my imaginary reconstruction of the pseudomxus
yesterday
but again
i gotta figure the 1855 survey must have had its own hardware
& no need to scrounge nor desire to confound things further
least of all on emorys part
so i imagine the only remaining mysteries are probably
who yanked the bogus rock when & why
& these are probably beyond human recall or report
tho the answers could well be
emory in 1855 as ordered by the usgovt
for i would go that far in my own supposition
so er you may not want to waste any more of your time on this
>
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <barbaria_longa@h...>
> To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 5:49 PM
> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: ghost memorial to a ghost rock of an
abortive mxus
>
>
> > notice
> > useless enjoyment following
> >
> >
> > a third & best & perhaps final try for the ghost of the mxus
abortion
> > rock this afternoon has indeed also turned up nothing
> > tho i combed the blufftop at the exact degminsec quite carefully
> > just in case the 1851 survey was as good as topozone
> > & tho i even scoured the entire degmin up & down the river
> > in case the survey was only that accurate
> >
> > yet i realized too that it may not have been nearly so fine
> > & that my try however careful is therefore both speculative &
> > incomplete
> > tho frankly
> > i knew from the start i was sending myself on a fools errand
anyway
> >
> > there were several rushes of near discovery tho
> > when i thought i saw something i didnt
> >
> > & it was of course another wonderful outing on another beautiful
day
> > imagining 3 commissioners imagining they were forging a new mxus
> > in a setting somewhat like this btw
> > http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/firecracker/images/fire-92-
sm.jpg
> > http://www.totacc.com/user/strokesupport/37.gif
> >
> > best i can do without a camera or a rock to show anyway
> >
> > & indeed it was particularly lovely to spend some hours on the rio
> > without any sign or trace or trappings of mxus at all
> >
> > like it might have been the coasts of nebraska or oregon or
something
> > but just with the backdrop of needle sharp mountains added
> >
> > but so anyway
> > was that productive
> >
> > yes definitely as far as i am concerned
> >
> > i may even try it again