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BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Lowell G. McManus"
<mcmanus71496@m...> wrote:
> Please see my two insertions below.
>
> Lowell G. McManus
> Leesville, Louisiana, USA
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "aletheiak" <aletheiak@y...>
> To: <BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 6:07 PM
> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: dcmdvan & mdvawv retries
continued
>
>
> > yes
> > kevins my man
> >
> > & tho i agree his excellent report does not directly address
the
> > question of the tripoint
> > it certainly provides a new clue that could well lead to the
tripoint
> > for it reveals the existence of a legal description of the
boundary
> > previously unsuspected by me
> > in addition to the plat & marker description reports already in
my
> > possession
> >
> > aha
> >
> > & this already sounds like
> > practically if not exactly
> > the extra tidbit you suggested i might find on file in the county
> > courthouses alongside the survey
> > aha
> >
> > so that already looks like some pretty sharp shooting with
both
> > barrels by you
>
>
> I'm glad to be of help!
>
>
> > & you can bet i will be on the phone with kevin in the morning
> > about this missing & possibly critical document
> >
> > & yes possibly just another red herring too
> > i concede
> > but due diligence demands i track it down in any case
> >
> >
> >
> > & another footnote to the dcmdvan try too
> >
> > it also just occurred to me
> > an additional essential bit of data i need to remember to pull
off
> > the paper topo is the compass bearing of the dcmd&arfa line
> > yikes
>
>
> The bearing was supposed to be north 45 degrees east.
BUS&SS says:
>
> The lines do not bear exactly 45° from the
> meridian, but the greatest variation is only 1¾'.
right but we need to know the actual bearing along this segment
of the border
which we can pull from the paper topo as well as anywhere
perhaps as much as millimeters of difference are at stake
>
> The footnote on that says:
>
> For data regarding surveys and boundary
> marks see Baker, Marcus, Nat. Geog. Mag.,
> vol. 6, pp. 149-165, 1894."
>
>
> > obviously
> > since we cant count on marker wm1 to give us the angle of
> > approach to dcmdvan but only to indicate a point on the
> > dcmd&arfa line some 49 or so feet away from it
> > aha
> >
> >
> > so things keep cooking nicely on both fronts