Subject: grwawi Re: Of North Carolina and Mexico<br/>
Date: Oct 03, 2005 @ 18:40<br/>
Author: aletheiak (&quot;aletheiak&quot; &lt;aletheiak@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-740429021">thanx<br/>
& glad to have your input<br/>
but i guess i just need more sensible proof for such a supposedly content knee creak<br/>
<br/>
my mystification is best exaggerated when i try to imagine how the usgs will solve the <br/>
problem of depicting the new tripoint & its immediate triarea in its next topo revision<br/>
<br/>
they cant just move the river because according to roger it didnt budge & i believe him<br/>
<br/>
& i dont think they can move wawi either because it supposedly didnt move either <br/>
tho it did change its name to grwa everywhere north of the former grwawi<br/>
<br/>
but the river as shown on the plat has evidently moved about 500 feet west into wayne<br/>
or else grwa has moved that far east since the topo was printed<br/>
<br/>
for i cant actually confirm if the wayne county east line shown on the plat matches by its <br/>
longitude the version of it shown by the topo<br/>
<br/>
but something has got to give there<br/>
<br/>
now i dont want to offend my informant by telling him he must be confused about <br/>
something<br/>
<br/>
so i was wondering & hoping if maybe you or someone else werent also puzzled enough <br/>
by this to want to get an answer<br/>
while having the pleasure of making a fresh acquaintance of this otherwise incredibly <br/>
knowledgeable & obliging informant <br/>
<br/>
& this does after all really affect a tripoint location & isnt purely idle curiosity<br/>
<br/>
like we know this baby moved north<br/>
but how do we know she didnt also move east<br/>
<br/>
it is most baffling & only keeps resounding<br/>
<br/>
--- In <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a>, &quot;Lowell G. McManus&quot; &lt;mcmanus71496@m...&gt; <br/>
wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="qreply"> &gt; I&#39;m still catching up on old posts from during my long hurricane-induced <br/>
&gt; electrical outage.<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; Mike D&#39;s conversations with the North Carolina authorities give us excellent new <br/>
&gt; information about that state&#39;s counties:<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; &gt; & he explained to my astonishment that the nc county<br/>
&gt; &gt; lines run not according to any legal descriptions but<br/>
&gt; &gt; simply follow the historical precedents of where<br/>
&gt; &gt; people have been paying their real estate taxes<br/>
&gt; &gt;<br/>
&gt; &gt; & he recalled that until about 1960 there werent even<br/>
&gt; &gt; any official property or county line maps<br/>
&gt; &gt; but that folks would just go to the county tax office<br/>
&gt; &gt; & declare how many acres they had<br/>
&gt; &gt; of cleared & uncleared land<br/>
&gt; &gt; & pay the taxes accordingly on their own say so<br/>
&gt; &gt;<br/>
&gt; &gt; & so the usgs has just had to cobble its county line<br/>
&gt; &gt; data together by whatever direct or indirect means<br/>
&gt; &gt; they could find & then assemble<br/>
&gt; &gt; whether from the occasional surveys or oral history or<br/>
&gt; &gt; whatever they could pick up in the landscape such as<br/>
&gt; &gt; stone walls etc<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; To me, this seems the perfect analogy to the situation regarding the boundaries <br/>
&gt; of the Mexican states (and of their municipios) and the depiction of such <br/>
&gt; boundaries on Mexican federal maps.<br/>
&gt; <br/>
&gt; Lowell G. McManus<br/>
&gt; Leesville, Louisiana, USA </span></blockquote></div>