Subject: prescott az<br/>
Date: Dec 12, 2004 @ 00:14<br/>
Author: aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos &lt;aletheiak@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-2133303095"><div>seeking more data on the 1918 atwood 113d20m survey&nbsp;</div>
<div>by means of&nbsp;which to resolve the outstanding&nbsp;mysteries of the initial monument near lamaya &amp; of&nbsp;the jog&nbsp;near mapiyu</div>
<div>i headed back out of surprise again this morning </div>
<div>past the eagle eye </div>
<div>&amp; thru aguila &amp; gladden again too</div>
<div>to try to recover&nbsp;the former mayu &amp; now lama monuments 48 &amp; 47</div>
<div>the easiest looking ones on the entire combined lama &amp; mayu lines</div>
<div>for whatever light they might shed</div>
<div><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=12&amp;n=3753362&amp;e=284853">http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=12&amp;n=3753362&amp;e=284853</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;</div>
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<div>&amp; tho it was necessary to tresspass on&nbsp;both prohibited public &amp; unposted private property</div>
<div>&amp; to clear 2 cattle gates &amp; finally crawl thru &amp; under barbed wire</div>
<div>the roads shown were decent &amp; monument 48 was easy to spot </div>
<div>since the freakin county line was marked with welcome signs in both directions right there</div>
<div>tho it was a dirt track in&nbsp;the middle of the desert</div>
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<div>the monument was a squat concrete square obeliskoid with a much taller 3inch pipe&nbsp;in place of &amp; rising far above the normal&nbsp;apex point</div>
<div>circa 1920 for all i could honestly guess at that point</div>
<div>tho i admit my first guess on the somewhat similar&nbsp;1924 maya rocks was 1930</div>
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<div>&amp;&nbsp;it was a rather forlorn sight&nbsp;since all its working parts</div>
<div>namely both of its side tablets &amp; its screw on cap</div>
<div>had been stripped</div>
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<div>&amp; it proclaimed only </div>
<div>on an&nbsp;added tablet</div>
<div>250 dollar reward for arrest &amp; conviction of party destroying this monument</div>
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<div>but by its orientation it did apparently still point the way toward the nearby monument 47</div>
<div>which i am gratified to say i&nbsp;pulled up to&nbsp;on the exact pace at&nbsp;850 foot range</div>
<div>tho i was about 20 paces wide of the mark </div>
<div>which&nbsp;however might be attributable to inexactitude in the placement of monument 48&nbsp;</div>
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<div>but anyway&nbsp;47 surprised me by being not exactly the same as 48</div>
<div>being only a 3inch pipe in the ground without&nbsp;the concrete obeliskoid</div>
<div>but graced by a&nbsp;black cast iron cap that said in high relief</div>
<div>yuma county 1918 maricopa county</div>
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<div>&amp; there were added by hand stamping in low relief the characters </div>
<div>x l v i i</div>
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<div>so what we evidently have here is&nbsp;one road stone &amp;&nbsp;one common line stone</div>
<div>both most probably atwood 1918 rather than some successor</div>
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<div>so it will still be&nbsp;interesting to see what the missing tablets may say on any other road stone that can be found still fully intact</div>
<div>&amp; it will still also be&nbsp;interesting to check the arizona supreme court records back thru 1918</div>
<div>as well as&nbsp;anything else i can dig up at the state library on the atwood&nbsp;&amp; thompson surveys</div>
<div>but pending these additional researches</div>
<div>it is my&nbsp;present guess&nbsp;that all 51 mayu &amp; lama&nbsp;markers indicated on&nbsp;the topos&nbsp;were atwood 1918</div>
<div>&amp; that his marker number 1 was the original mapiyu </div>
<div>&amp; that the mapiyu jog was therefore not his doing but due to some other cause</div>
<div>&amp; that the missing&nbsp;initial monument near lamaya was set by him first to serve as&nbsp;the final destination of his northward progression</div>
<div>&amp; that he may well have placed no markers south of mapiyu </div>
<div>nor north of this his&nbsp;initial &amp; terminal or 52nd monument</div>
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<div>library is closing so thats about it from here</div>
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<div>&amp; now its on to the sedona anodes</div>
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<div>beebeep</div>
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