Show MOTHER NATURES WORK V Ont of the great difficulties that sus veyors encounter in attempting to follow fol-low the lines of old surveys is the disappearance dis-appearance of old landmarks This may occur from the heedlessness of man or te the forces ot nature In 1S34 the United States government surveyor made surveys of certain lands In Florida and as Is the custom noted corners and angles by blazing the trees and marking on them with gaugers tools the range township and section numbers A surveyor recently during the course of an examination split up a cypress tree In search of such corner marks The ax separated the chip and disclosed on the trunk of the tree the marks for which he searched The marks un 30ATy 1 S 3 appear In basrelief on thrJcon cave side of the slab or chip an3fept > as distinct as the original marks wer f irtien orignal the surveyor made them on the trqnk of the tree over 6 years ago Every faStura of the matrix is distinctly xeproaucea > The land companys surveyor sent the chipThis following explanatory letter with the This curiosity is a chip cut off a cypress cy-press tree standing near the southwest corner of section 3 township 1 range SO These marks of the section range and township numbers were cut into the tree by the United States government surveyor sur-veyor in 1S34 and the new growth of the tree covered up and grew over the marks I taking the reverse impression of the marks yet remaining on the tree The chip was split off by me while examining the lands of the Florida Land and Lumber Lum-ber company By reference to the map you will see that this corner is in the edge of a cypress swamp Many such marks were found by me and this is one of many proofs of the accuracy of my survey New York Sun |