Subject: laveen az<br/>
Date: Dec 21, 2004 @ 23:39<br/>
Author: aletheia kallos (aletheia kallos &lt;aletheiak@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-26094840"><div>laveen branch library marks the 5th maricopa county public&nbsp;library i have&nbsp;posted from</div>
<div>&amp; this places&nbsp;maricopa </div>
<div>which flatly bills itself as americas best&nbsp;county&nbsp;</div>
<div>&amp; not without some reason</div>
<div>in a tie with the 5 branch libraries of my own favorite monroe county florida</div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div>nor is this just an idle beep for purposes of library count&nbsp;</div>
<div>but the official report of my highly successful visit to the arizona state archives &amp; library</div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div>nor was it so easy to find btw</div>
<div>since washington street is between adams &amp; jefferson in phoenix</div>
<div>if you can imagine that</div>
<div>&amp;&nbsp;it disappears completely for the state capital complex to boot</div>
<div>so you&nbsp;will just have to guess what a fiasco that was&nbsp;</div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div>but eventually&nbsp;i actually found in a dingy basement there state engineer atwoods original 1918 mayu&nbsp;survey plat</div>
<div>showing all 52 of his numbered longitude 113d20m mayu markers</div>
<div>beginning from number 1 at mapiyu aka the second standard parallel south</div>
<div>which he noted was 120point3 feet east of a stone section corner</div>
<div>thus explaining away&nbsp;the jog there himself from the very start</div>
<div>&amp; ending at what he actually took to be lat 34 00 00 aka mayayu in his day</div>
<div>or what he called the north end of the mayu county line</div>
<div>&amp; including lots of other goodies like his supreme court order number</div>
<div>etc</div>
<div>altogether a feast for the eyes</div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div>but better yet</div>
<div>buried under the atwood plat </div>
<div>&amp; unseen even by the librarian who had dished it up for me</div>
<div>was the 1924 mayu plat as well</div>
<div>yikes</div>
<div>&amp; not by thompson as we had thought </div>
<div>but bradstreet</div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div>&amp; it showed &amp; referred to atwoods&nbsp;terminal marker&nbsp;as the initial monument</div>
<div>even tho atwood himself only referred to it as number 52</div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div>so that mystery is finally completely solved</div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div>but more amazingly </div>
<div>it clearly showed that the 1924 corner number 1 point was </div>
<div>while obviously some&nbsp;150 yards south of the atwood latitude </div>
<div>also if quite a bit less obviously still definitely out of alignment&nbsp;with the meridian of the initial monument</div>
<div>as i myself had also surmised from my squinty &amp; cockeyed but now fully vindicated reading of&nbsp;some mismatched usgs topos you may recall</div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div>so the 1924 paleo lamaya evidently did disregard the precedence of both the latitude &amp; longitude of the 1918 proto paleo lamaya</div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div>&amp; it is quite a shock to see both&nbsp;of the 1918 coords&nbsp;bite the dust there in black &amp; white</div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div>another nice detail is confirmation that bradstreet knew his terminal marker 31 was beyond the gimaya tripoint &amp; thus actually a point on gima</div>
<div>so we have one additional county line there somewhat demarcated </div>
<div>for some reason</div>
<div>for whatever&nbsp;that is worth</div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div>but no sign of the 1908 moya survey </div>
<div>nor any other arizona county line survey whatsoever yet</div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div>a couple dozen&nbsp;of&nbsp;the perhaps 83 milestones&nbsp;from 1908 do show up well at topozone tho </div>
<div>so there is no doubt it really occurred</div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div>&amp; beyond that&nbsp;</div>
<div>i&nbsp;have found nothing else of arizona county line markings </div>
<div>either at the library or topozone or in the field</div>
<div>so my conclusion for now &amp; perhaps forever is </div>
<div>thats all she must have written</div><p>
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