The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1908-08-22

u'es east, an indicated change of variaA
ton of the needle of seven minutes east.
ana proceeded to mark the line back to
Catawba River"
Inc commission state that on account
OF the great discrepancy in the distances
lhe new line measuring 52,7TO feet, and
the Act calling for distance of 81 ,6l2
1eet, difference of 1,15S feet it was
thought best to chain this distance a
second time. This rechaining showed
the first measurement to be correct.
Hammond Spring, the next landmark
referred to in the Act. was found with
out difhculty, and the Identification of
1t was confirmed by Mr.. Pete Hammond,
man seventy-five years of age, and by
Others. The corner was fixed seventy
five feet south OF the spring i'm accord
ance with the Act. The bearing from
the stone corner at'Russell Place to this
point was ~ degrees, 80 minutes, east,
showing an indicated change of yaria-
tion of the needle of one degree. five
minutes east, and the. distance was
1853 feet, against 7,775 feet, as called
for IN the Act, a discrepancy of only
three feet.
From hammond Spring the ST 'vey
ran north az degrees east, the exact
bearing given in the Act, to the Sails
bury road Mt Hanging Rock Greek
bridge. This course brought the sur
veyors to the centre of the road, twenty
feet south of the bridge at distance of
l4,SSI feet, 269 feet greater than the dis
tance given in the Act
The commission then states: "At|
this point we found no stone as men.
toned in the Act, although we made
diligent search for it. We did, how
ever find a stone by the roadside l43
feet south of our line and l63 feet south
nf ln hf-tI lN,,,. :.
out markS-a small irregular niece Of
stone, wholly unlike the substantial
stone post plainly marked at Russell
Place, and we could not conceive that
this was sent for so important a mark
as county corner.." In nsubstantiation
OF this view the commission had a let
ter from Mr.. II. j. Kirkland, of Cam
den, stating that he set this stone about
fifteen years ago as the corner between
the Fitzpatrick and the Horton lands.
ana that 1t was not set as n county
corner. This statement was confirmed
Dy MIR. Joseph CautheD, who assisted
in that survey.
The point at which the commissions
line intersects the Salisbury road. near
Hanging Rock Creek bridge. corress
ponds as closely as it is possible to de-. ]
termine with Mills's Atlas and with
previous surveys, after carefully weigh-l
ing all evidence the commission unanisJ
mously agreed that this point, 20 feet
south of the bridge, was the true corner. |
and so established it.
The commission continues: Il
AS no further marks are mentioned |
in the Act, we measured with excep-
uonal care along the Salisbury road, a
dlstance OF 22,l16 feet, equal to AZ
miles, and established our corner ''nearl
RpthpI Chnrnh L. -
and as this was the crucial point of all |
previous controversies, we took pains
to check this measurement carefully.l
This point being established, vel
agreed unanimously, after exhaustiyel
discussion, that the correct bearing of |
the line nom this point to Lynch,sj
River should be north 63 degrees, l5l
minutes east, an indicated change OF
variation of the needle of fifteen min,1
utes west from the Act. This conclus-
ion was reached only after carefullyl
weighing all the evidence as to yaria-
tion, including the Government reports,
our own solar observ ations, the diurnai
variations and the local attraction all in
connection with our experience on the
lines already run"
This line appeared, at the outset to
strike fair average between the diff
fering lines of the Halle, Rapsdale &
McElvane survey, the Perrin & Sulli-
van survey and the Pinckney survey,
and so continued through and for some
distance beyond the town of Kershaw;
and from the evidence of practically all
the citizens who expressed themselves,
it appeared to coincide very closely with
the 'old original line" But the report
says: When we got within three
miles of Lynch's River, however, it bo-l
came evident that our line was thenJ
north of the line shown on Mills Atlas
and of the line of the more recent sur1
veys, and it SO continued, striking thei
river one fourth h-mile, apparently aboyel
the point shown in the atlas, though
several residents of the locality stated
that our line even here coincided With
what their fathers had pointed out as
the original line" The commission
the matter carefully, and as
they were governed entirely by the Act,
which gave no landmarks on this line
and did not mention any point at which
1T should strike the river, and did not
refer to Mills Atlas or to any other
ii was determined TO follow
the courses stated in the Act, with
proper variations, regardless of all
other considerations. The omn:ission.
established and marked this