The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-06-18


soil" This, together with other mill
tary grants of 1000 acres conferred
upon Generals Lafayette, Green,
Wayne and others was the basis Of
suits that were in the courts of OHIO
lor over fifty years,
The at of February II, 1905 which
was Mr.. Jcnarson's final attempt to
regulate the surveying of public lands
which law is still in force, was re-en-
acted in 1873 provided for a subdi
vision into sections and quarter see
tions as used at the present time.
The thirteen original colonies We're
surveyed according to the magnetic
cells or compass with ridges, creeks
and courses as provided in land grants,
lcaV ing much of the land unmeasured
and unEranted as there was no meth
cd whereby in the old surveys anyone
could tell whether the survey took all
the land i'm any part of the country,
WI NhNAAi'l Nll' ohA ~ - w ~ AtA ib''
which they often did, in fact, the state
of Kentucky still has suits pending
over the Virginia land grants made
prior to June l, 1892 which have since
been patented by the state land office
Of Kentucky and has been held for the
past rs years by the patentees, their
heirs and assigns. The night rider
troubles of Obine and Reelfoot lake
in Tennessee grew out OF an old North
Carolina land grant issued prior to the
admission of Tennessee into the Union.
1t will be noticed by observing the
map of the northwest territory and
states admitted into the Union prior
to the state of Kansas and Nebraska,
that the township lines do not run
parallel to the meridian caused by the
variation of the needle from the true
north and south line but after the
invention of the solar compass by a
Mr.. Bart a school teacher in Michigan.
IL was tdSy W utLcl lllllt lUc u ue
meridian or north and south line by
the stars POaris which is situated
about one and one-half degree from
the north pole and revolves around 1t
once in % hours 56 mintes, and Alioth
or more commonly known as Epsilon,
which is the first star in the handle of
the great dipper."
The solar compass can be used ad.
vantaGeously only when the sun is
shining, therefore most of our land
surveys are made with transits with
solar attachment that enables the sur
veyor to keep straight line by back
sighting on a station he has left and
turning east and west from a north
and south line at certain angles to
correspond with his north and south
line.
AS one cannot carry solar compass
with him all the time and the North
star is not observable during daylight,
there is a palmer and easier method
which on account of wire fences and
irregular electrical currents passing
from east to west around the earth,
not load stone, but electrical currents
passing around the earth from east to
needle to point north and south with
right angle with these currents, this
theory was first advocated by DR.. Cav
anaugh in 1885 and the irregularity of
the currents caused the variation of
the needle.
There is yet another way to deter
mine north and south without the aid
of a compass. Take any ordinary
watch, get the difference between
standard or railroad time in your To-
cality and the sun time, as the sun
time alone governs in determining
north and south, take a pencil and
place it on the edge of the watch so
that the shadow of the pencil will fall
directly over the hour hand, then on
the face of the watch calculate one
half the distance between the hour
hand and the figure II, and from that
point one-half the distance between
the figure twelve then lay yonr pencil
across the dial directly in the center
and it will be pointing due north and
south.
A few years ago Norwegian cross
ed the Atlantic in a small boat. His
only compass was a cheap Seth
Thomas clock, merely to show that
Columbus did not perform such a
wonderful feat after all. The boat is
now the property of the United States
government, on exhibition at the ma
tional museum
Mrs. Vaughn who is conducting the |