Subject: caus & mxus initial points & oldest stones<br/>
Date: Apr 09, 2003 @ 03:29<br/>
Author: m donner (&quot;m donner&quot; &lt;maxivan82@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-94024074">according to<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://home.earthlink.net/~dawise/Maine.htm">http://home.earthlink.net/~dawise/Maine.htm</a><br/>
the oldest known extant caus monument dates from 1817<br/>
but it was a replacement for a 1798 original<br/>
which was itself the first monument on the caus line<br/>
or rather on what was then the gbus line<br/>
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the position marked by these stones<br/>
at the source of the st croix river<br/>
or roughly halfway up the maine new brunswick boundary<br/>
is shown in<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=19&n=5087872&e594362&s=25&symshow=n">http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=19&n=5087872&e594362&s=25&symshow=n</a><br/>
&<br/>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=19&n=5087872&e594362&symshow=n">http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=19&n=5087872&e594362&symshow=n</a><br/>
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as can be seen there<br/>
the extant stone also marks the aroostook carlton york tricounty point<br/>
as well as the trimunicipal point formed by amity township & north lake & <br/>
richmond parishes<br/>
at a single multi distinguished position thus named<br/>
caus2menb3arcayo4amnori<br/>
tho the ibc calls it simply monument number 1<br/>
<br/>
& no pix as it is a virgin<br/>
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the first position marked on mxus<br/>
according to bus&ss<br/>
dates from around 1850<br/>
& is now occupied by monument 258<br/>
which you probably recall is the terminal rock overlooking the pacific at <br/>
tijuana imperial beach<br/>
<br/>
but whether the present monument 258 incorporated the original or merely <br/>
replaced it isnt known<br/>
as the date of monument 258 itself isnt available<br/>
& it could easily be much later<br/>
judging from the pix we have seen of it<br/>
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if so<br/>
then the oldest extant stone on mxus could be anywhere<br/>
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but<br/>
also according to bus&ss<br/>
there are 6 other prime candidates from the same original bcca survey also<br/>
including especially the opposite bcca terminal rock<br/>
which is the one nearest azbcca & the mexican cable car tower on the <br/>
colorado river<br/>
& which struck me as being quite old<br/>
tho i neglected to photograph it<br/>
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but checking the dates on these 2 terminal rocks alone might be sufficient <br/>
to settle the matter<br/>
without having to look for any of their 5 slightly younger survey mates<br/>
also possibly still standing somewhere in between<br/>
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