just got off the phone with kevin again
& the vawv legal description is already on its way to cream hill
& he too is now actively pondering the question of exactly how vawv
gets down to the low water mark from the terminal point of his survey
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "aletheiak" <aletheiak@y...>
wrote:
> --- In 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