The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1889-10-05
SURVEYOR GENERALS REPORT

Singular Dissppe.rsace 81 Meau.
msnss. aad Other Matters Pertain.
Ing 10 dinsrsl ssrvsys.
A copy of the annual report of U. 8
Surveyor General Irish tn the General
Land Office at Washington is on our
table. II contains much information
from correspondents in various parts
Of the State, besides comments and
remarks by the Surveyor General.
The report says:
PEcrLrARITEs OF SURVEYS.
There 10 one singular feature att
tending the lasting qualities of the
public surveys in Nevada, as referred
10 the dates Of their execution. II Is
remarked by those who have extern
sively examined them that the posts
and mounds of the older surveys are
still in large percentage of cases in
tact, and remain good and sufficient
landmarks to this day; this applies
more particularly to surveys made
prior TO 1857.
II IL nh uncommon occurrcnce ts
nnd such posts and mounds standing in
the same field where surveys have
been made not longer ago than 1883,
and 1t IL impossible To discover n
mark of tho latter surveys.
Many excuses are made for the alb
ssBcs Of tbs latter surveys, notably,
THAT cattle and sheep tear down and
destroy them, and that stock owners
and their herdsmen willfully do the
same
Ii IL seen that If the FIRST excuse is
q good one, we might expect the cat
tie and sheep to also tear down and
destroy the posts, stones and other
marks of the much older surveys.
have myself seen that they do not do
this, nor do find that stock will de-
stroy mounds and other marks of the
Government surveys, unless il is where
they are closely huddled together
They certainly do bnt little of the
destruction attributed to them.
That the managers and owners OF
herds desire the destruction of the
Government land marks, an certain,
10 not true. for | personally know
that they have in large number ol
cases expended large sums of money
in an almost fruitless attempt To find
corner boundaries of the lands which
they own and control. For the reason
given, il is mere nonsense TO attribute
the universal absence of corners o.
Government surveys to the ill-will o.
the herd or the maliciousness Of thu
stock-ownsrs or their managers. TIT
incontestible proof that the corner
were never set by the survey ors, witt
would make il appear that their al
most universal absence 10 due tn
freak of the herds or to the fell de-
signs .af the owners of tho same, Il
seen when ono makes "a examination
OF the lines upon which 1t Is alleged
they were set.
MINERAL SURVEYS.
In a large number of mineral sur
veys coming under my notice, execu
ted in former years, | find the sam
gross carelessness and want of atten'
ton to the we'll known rules Of lav
and surveying science, so much SC
that valuable mining properties hsv
been described in the notes ut sur
veys In such manner as to locate then
of of the ground described in thei
location notices, all distances, from
few feet to as much as halt mile.
These errors of survey on the par
of Mineral Deputies should, IT posi-
BILE. be corrected by the Land Depart
msnt, they having been committed b
sworn officers of that department.
IT this can be done IL will say
mine owners In this State untold thou
sands 10 an attempt to adjust the IN
correct survevs by Court DEGREES.