Show MEASURED This sighting tower on Antelope Island Is part of a program to tie Davis County in with the National Coast and Geodetic It can also be used with other sighting towers in the county to mark the county off in grid using electronic measuring devices and computing by LeRoy By LE ANN BLODGETT In case you are wondering exactly where you the County Surveyor can now tell you within one-fourth With the survey completed this Davis County is now entirely surveyed and THE average land this means that he can have a less costly private survey and avoid lawsuits and fights with his says County Surveyor Glen are four sighting towers in the county that will tie its more than locations with instrument Man for the Davis County Surveyor's office points to a monument placed by the pioneers in The monument reads C. SURVEY This point on the island can be seen from any other point in the county the National Coast and Geodetic says towers are located on Francis Bountiful Syracuse and Jeep THE brass-capped monuments are placed in cement where the original surveyor designated the grid sections in the late according to Although the pioneers attempted to make each grid section one-half mile by one-half they vary by as much as he THE NEW electronic distance meters measure with a beam of light between two to an accuracy of one-fourth while the pioneers used such things as a rag tied to a wagon After the pioneers marked the grid corners with piles of the position of county surveyor was established as a political office so they could elect someone to see that the stones stayed in THE LAND was originally apportioned out by bishops or There was no need for a more accurate with land frontage being computed by the measurements are very Even though the section corners are not exactly one-half mile they are not The points are and perpetuated as the pioneers marked is done according to says Township plats were recorded with the county recorder political AUSTIN says when he took 12 years there were only locations known and marked the county-now there are over They were searched out and replaced where he pointed About one-half of the surveyor's office budget has been devoted toward the establishment of monuments for this survey system during the past 12 The major cost is locating and with the brass cap and monument costing approximately It is set permanently in DAVIS County is the first fully county in the In an surveyors will always come up with different says Some will measure from a while others will measure from the middle of the A survey costing in an area would cost about in a |