Show dixie forest will have new marking special to 1 lie anns ogden mar 27 hie 1015 field season 13 beginning euly for the fore re operations of the first field party to start in the arizona division of tho dixie forat early next week john lias returned to his headquarters at st b angus M woodbury Wood hury surveyor to arrange the equipment they will be joined at st george tuesday by F T booie chief of maintenance and earl C sanford and charles F evans forest of the countr to be examined air woodburg rv said the national forest area to be surveyed lies on the north or northwest bank of the grand canyon and at tins point an exceptional view can be had since it is one of alie few places where the bend of the nver and the directness of descent permit a view of the mer from the high plateau here the full sweep of the river a mile below can be seen for some distance no regular survey 9 have been made in that region and when the dixie forest boundaries were originally sun eyed it was ne cesar to start with the utah arizona boundary line the surveyed line in that region this was surveyed years ago and atone posts were set and numbered in consecutive order to mark the miles on the north of each is engraved utah and on the south arizona abbreviated if necessary for lack of room at present alie public lands surveyors in the office of the surveyor general place an iron post one in diameter at each half mile and one two inches in diameter at each mile or if a township cornei one three inches in diameter theae are mounted with bras caps which are engraved to short the section township and range number the Truro bull mountain division of the dixie forest IB in the region and although alie gila and stilt river meridian is alie meridian for arizona it was necessary to project its probable location north of the grand cannon by tn from the state line the geographical position of points in alie trumbull mountains 38 miles south were determined and the boundary lines relatively near by burve ved without unnecessary work upon the intervening miles of desert where water is usually scarce the present time ia favorable for work in that region since water is nearl everywhere abundant in the spring |