welcome home & thanks jack
your update on ksmook suggests to me we are all probably correct here
at least joyce seems to be standing just where i remember the pothole
& i found it just where you said in the book you saw the brass pin
namely in the center of the road & nearest the tower
the fact that neither the pin nor the hole are there any longer
but only the patch & joyce
strikes me as more reassuring than problematic
for while the exact position of the pin & even of its presumed trace at the
pothole center or low point have been lost
still the likeliest position is easy to reconstruct by sighting the
intersection of the road center line & the tower center line
& it falls unless i am mistaken near the center of the patch area
of course all this will probably become moot soon anyway at the rate
everything keeps changing here but i think we are looking pretty good for
now
interesting too how all those low points tend to fill in tho
also you were very much with us even in your absence as we discovered &
contemplated perhaps a dozen mountain peak tripoints
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> Mike, Here are pictures of three holes in the ground. Actually, the
>hole is gone at the first one, ks-mo-ok tripoint. Joyce didn't wet her
>pants. That's a fairly fresh blacktop patch over what I assume is the
>spot where the hole was. No evidence of the brass pin could be found, so
>we still have a problem with this one. Picture taken 9-29-00. While
>we were in the process of popping the man hole cover at the 6th
>Principal Meridian on 10-9-00 a car drove up. At first I was afraid we
>were in trouble but it was surveyor Leroy Gerrard from Strongburg, NE and
>a friend. Leroy had been there in 1987 when they had the dedication
>ceremony for the new monument. It was the first time he had been back,
>and he was amazed to see a NY license plate car there. He and his
>friend helped me finish moving the man hole plate (picture below). Then
>we cleaned the marker in the hole and took a picture but the photo was
>not as good as the cover plate photo, so that's the picture I picked to
>send. On 10-11-00 we popped the cover at in-mi-oh. The stainless plate
>was very dirty, so we washed it off and polished it a little so that it
>would photograph better. Too bad that the granite witness post got
>broken. It was intact when we were there in 1991. Jack eGroups
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