Annual Report of the State Engineer and Surveyor on the Canals of New YorkJames B. Lyon, 1894 1859 accompanied by volume of maps with title: Engravings of plans, profiles and maps, illustrating the standard models, from which are built the important structures on the New York State canals. |
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50 per day aqueduct bearings were taken Black River canal boundary line road bridge Champlain canal Chemung canal condition corners chipped creek degrees east degrees west Disc set east side Engineer and Surveyor Erie canal feeder feet east feet north feet south feet west following bearings Forestport Genesee river highway leading highway monument standing HIGHWAY STONE inches lake Laws line between property line fence lock marks the corner masonry ment was found Mohawk river monu monument has heaved monument is situated monument the following monument was found monument with diagonal north side northeast Number of days Oswego canal otherwise paces repairs reservoir Resident engineer respect roadway Rodman Seneca river set in wood side of boundary sidewalks small monument standing Soil sandy south side southeast corner spillway square miles standing on east street survey waste-weir west of milestone west of monument west side westerly slope wood ashes York
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Seite 52 - ... 7. For convenience, the United States Geological Survey shall, during the progress of the field work, pay the salaries of the persons employed therein, while the traveling, subsistence, and field expenses shall be paid for the same time by the State. For office work on the map the salaries shall be divided between the two agreeing parties in such a way as to equalize all expenses, provided that the total cost to the State of...
Seite 335 - York, at the southeasterly corner of the brick building on the lands of Cortlandt L. Parker, at the intersection of the westerly line of Water street with the northerly line of Lewis street, in Perth Amboy, in the state of New Jersey. "Second. From 'Great Beds light-house' south, sixty-four degrees and twenty-one minutes east, true (S.
Seite 51 - Illinois, 1905. 1. The preparation of the map shall be under the supervision of the director of the United States Geological Survey, who shall determine the methods of survey and map construction. 2. The order in which, in point of priority, different parts of the State shall be surveyed shall be agreed upon in detail by the State Geological Commission of the State of Illinois and the Director of the United States Geological Survey, but In case of failure to agree the order shall be determined by...
Seite 52 - ... vertical intervals of 20 ft. " 5. The heights of important points, including dams, shall be determined and furnished to the Commissioners of Connecticut. " 6. The outlines of wood areas shall be represented upon proofs of the engraved map to be furnished the Commissioners of Connecticut. * * * " 9. The resulting map shall fully recognize the cooperation of the State of Connecticut. " 10. When the work is completed the Commissioners of Connecticut shall be furnished by the United States Geological...
Seite 354 - The monument is in one piece, eleven and one-half feet long and with a cross section of something over one foot by two feet. It weighs nearly three tons and is set four feet down in an accurately cut hole in the rock and fastened with cement mortar, and is further supported for a foot and a half more by building stones and hydraulic mortar around it. The remaining portion isix feet) ia hammered dressed and marked on two of its sides. The words " Boundary monument " and the date " 1882
Seite 336 - 2. A permanent monument marked ' State Boundary Line New York and New Jersey,' and to be placed at the intersection of the line drawn from the 'Great Beds light-house' to 'Waackaack or Wilson's beacon,' Monmouth county, New Jersey, and the line drawn from 'Morgan No.
Seite 394 - ... its cut edges were somewhat smoothed by the exposure of 100 years. In 1874 the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, at the request of the Geological Survey of New Jersey, determined accurately the latitude and longitude of this point, and at the close of the work marked it by drilling a deep hole in the rock and fastening in it a copper tube .filled with lead and setting and describing proper witnesses of its location. The station point according to this determination is in latitude 41°...
Seite 335 - Beds light-house' south, sixty-four degrees and twenty-one minutes east, true (S. 64° 21' E.), in line with the center of Waackaack or Wilson's beacon, in Monmouth county, New Jersey, to a point at the intersection of said line with a line connecting
Seite 52 - During the progress of the work free access to the field sheets and records of the topographers and draughtsmen shall...
Seite 336 - County, New Jersey, and the line drawn from "Morgan No. 2" triangulation point, US Coast and Geodetic Survey, in Middlesex County, New Jersey, to "Romer stone beacon." 3. Eight buoys or spindles, to be marked like the permanent monument above mentioned, and placed at suitable intervening points along the line from the said permanent monument to the "Romer stone beacon.