The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-07-07
5c--1Oc
EXACT TO THE INCH
REMARKABLE INSTANCE or Ac.
cURATE SURVEYING.
Fact That "Monry tasnt" Was Grind.
stone Had Been Overlooked and
Gave Paul Bunyan Some
Uneasy Moments.

man named Paul Bunyan, who
worked as county surveyor in Kansas,
says the Engineering News, had some
reputation in his profession. This is
an account OF job he did for Silas
Emery. Silas himself told the story
to party OF Rock Island engineers
who had taken refuge in his tool shed
from one of the justly famous summer
showers of the Sunflower state.
Il hired Paul" said Silas, TO run
out my north line because my neigh
Dor was aimin to string fence on
what | knowed was my land. They
had been stone set twenty rod moth
east OF my COW barn when the Widder
Smith owned the layout, but seemed
as II | couldn't rightly locate It, But
Paul, he had the gov 'ment notes for
the whole county and the one west,
so knowed he could fix me up proper
Well, him and his Iong-laigged boys
come out one mornin' at sunup and
set out to find monnyment to start
out from, but they didn't find none till
they come to the second range line
east; it was buffalo horn set seven
inches down in gravel at the aidge OF
a crick, as the notes called for, so
Paul he felt safe to start, and they
lit out. They'd chain out eighty rod
after the compass was set level and
the proper declination set off. and then |
Paul would put up his inst 'ment and |
80 whar the boys had got to and start
'em off agin. And bein' right pert |
steppers, they seeveyed them seven
miles in some two hours, and come to
whar my corner was supposed to be
at | recollect Paul was lookin' mighty |
cocky when be come up to whar the
last pin was stickin' in the ground
Thar she be- he sings out, jest
six inches underground, and If you'll
shove down on that thar pin you can
find her yourself!'
Wal. goes over and shoves her in
clean up to the red flannel, but nary
stone did fetch.
Now Paul havin' the name he had
for doia tiptop work | felt right dis
appointed thinkin Of him a-missin'
that stone, and l reckon / showed my
feelin's some, too. Paul wasn't lookin'
cocky no more, neither. Never did
see feller more put cut He reads
all his gov 'ment notes over time and
agin, and him and the boys they puts
down a whole raft of iggers and takes
turns a-addin' them up.
Then Paul gifts up and takes their !
;ightin' pole and rams her down whar /
he pin was settin'. Full two foot he
iruv that thar pole down fore he give
I up as a bad job, and set down and
vent to PAWN over that old ya4ier
notebook agin. Fore he set down.
hough, he allowed as how he'd give
lp aud take to ranchin'
Finally / heered him snickerin' and
looked over to wnar he was. and
har he set GRIMM tit to kill Come
Icre. ST. sez he. and read the dis
ription OF this here monnyment.'
'eems he had overlooked readin' that
har description all this time cause OF
bein' over on the right-hand page
nth figgerin all round and runnin
nto Il. But thar it was, writ plain
nough for ANYBODY once you noticed
: For the no'thest corner OF section
4. havin run out OF buffalo horns. l
ct an old grindstone purloined from +
be Nidder smiths shed. six inches ]
Glow the surface of the ground III
Yep, the pole Paul led showed down
NO foot was stickin plumb through
le hole in that grindstone!p