The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-26
RE-sURvEY OF STATE,
And Placing Stone Post Imbedded In
 Concrete at Section Corners.

And Placing Stone Post tmDe00e0 kn
 Concrete at Section Corners. Editor The Advertiser:
 The purpose of this article is to set forth some views respecting some needed Legislation, for one class of Land Owner" And the. resurvey of the State and stone section corners, post imbedded in concrete is the leg
 Democracy boasts of It's opposition to class 1egislation." That. is all right, if such legislation is carried to excess. ,sss that is entirely free from such class ification. e
 Not a Legislature convenes that one or more of the classes will not clanor for special considerations; and 1t is right to give them respectful and inl- partial attention, proportionate to the
 The desired legislation here sought concerns every man who owns land in Alabama. now, as well as those who shall ever own 1t.
 argument, to appropriate enough money to re-survey every section of her land, and imbed stone posts In concrete defacement or removal. Require the best engineering talent or surveyors to be employed and the best solar irl- struments; the bearing Of every line be recorded, and more accurate meas ureInents be made, and all of the work in general be better performed than was originally done
 Any experienced surveyor will tell you that there is much inaccuracy in the Field Notes at the Land Ohce. that champagne or other strong snake-bite medicine and various careiessness were tolerated in those good old lazy Indian summer days, with detectives to make supplementary reports; plenty turkey, venison. fish and bruin carcasses to feast on, while Poor To" kept the forest fires so busy that no Big Stick" could grow. and the surveyor lolled with Viking ease in the shade of forest trees,
 It has been suggested that any op- position to the resurvey, etc, as out or more of three resources: From the lawyers the engineers and surveyofs, or some emagogie political huckster along the road of political preferment and as coming man by assuming the roll of political economist, and watch dog of the Treasury. See!
 Now, as to the bar of the State, it is calumny to suppose that any lawyer worthy of admission to the bar would for revenue only, through fees. wish ignorant poor ones, on the throes of lit- Igation at our court houses. Oh! per- haps some of the small fry might wish to replenish lean pocket book that way Some small potato not worth any roasting and who could not hope to be noticed as a, lobbyist any way. You
  of so often results from disagreement about the proper location of land lines. section lines, and the surveyors so often disagree because the proper bearings of the lines were not all, nor few, given. any engineers statement to the con trary notwithstanding.
 There is no use for the blatant and the shiftless and thriftless survey ors and engineers to sing and carp, that the people ought not to have lost the lines and the corner post-hoping to keep the job, you know. We are in the midst of a condition, there were not enough people here to prevent for est fires for many years after the sur vey, etc.
 Speaking of class legislation. The land owners constitute a class. and respectable one at that. Talk about appropriations, no appropriation can reach nor benefit more people, more diversified people, as to education and intellect and property. nor as tax pay CTS. Surely the land owners are as numerous and quite as important as any one of the classes in Alabama: No one but a carping would-be eco- nomist will object to this measure. It is the best evidence of true econ omy to secure permanency respecting these corners. Not having time at this session is the greatest objection. Some legislators require long time to think out a small thing, or large one This thing needs but little isms to be seen if the press would bring this matter properly before the people. And the longer the survey is neglect ed the more difficult the work, the sary litigation and other disturbed rss | lations. A. T. Jackson