The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1916-04-07
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REMARKABLE INSTANCE OF Ac-
:,o9'acURATE SURVEYING. adf
Fact That "Mohnyment" Was q Grind
stone Had Been Overlooked and
7f~ Gave PAU 'Bunyan Some z ~
Uneasy Moments.

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"A 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 or a Job he did for Silas
Emery. Silas himself, told the story
to asParty of Rock Island engineers
who had taken refuge in, hiso tool shed
rom zone ,of the j~hstlyIdamous summer
showers Of the IS unfiower state~ eYi3l
""I hired Paul," Said asiiass,,sstD rtd11tf
outsnhy' horfh 1.-THE shecspFe:1Y fly 4{iEh:5i
boz ives aipfn, TO -6triRg aeiffsnSs ,,op
what knowedr was my land; biTheyl.
had :baen a stone SettwentH rod no tho
east,0f myheowibafn Nwhenothe WidderI
Smith SwAedbthe hyout, but aeeraedc
as if l couldn't rightly locate it. But
Paul, he had the sgov'raetit notes for
the whole county and the one west.
so hkpowed he SouldyAxxne up proper.
Welt hihanS ,his RneSaigsdtAbM
COME. DIT ofe' mbrnin' At suh6pf and
set out to find a MONUMENT to start
out 'FRONT.' but they didn't find none It'll
they come to the second range line
east; IT was q buffalo horn set seven
inches down In gravel at the aidge OF
aaeriekr as the notes. called .fori so
Panfl he felt safe to start, and they
lit outs They'd chain out eighty rod
after the compass was set level ana,
the proper defamation set or and then
Paul would PVT up his inst ment and
60 whar thefboys had got totand start
EN- of agin K And beins fright pert,
shoppers, they seeveyed ittisms seven,
miles iif;some two hours; ana come1to
wh&f' MY corner was Nsupposed to be-
at I recoile5ctf Paul was iUokfn' mighty.
cockyts when he COME up to, Whaf the
last pin, was ,stickilp' p the ground, n
.rfTharl she 5be,t he osings out, jest
six'inehes, underground, and if you'hl
shove 'dowhsoni that thar PIN you can.
find her yrourself!. = IL ;til;4 tena-
."Wtai. / goes oyer al and sshIo5sses,' her. III III:
clean up to the, red flannel, but nary,
stone did 4 tetch.s . Y4>i.N r..:<ti :
Now Paul havin' the name he had
for doing tiptop work l felt right dis
appointed thinkinn Of him a!mfssin.
that stone, and ! reckon l showed my
f%eelin's some, 90. Paul wasn't lpokins'
cocky no more, neither. Never did I
see a Teller more put. out. He reads
all his govIhent n6tes over time and
/ agin, and him and the boys they puts
down a whole raft Of fggers and takes
turns Aladdin them up. se-, -; M
Then Paul gifts up and takes their
sightin' pole and ann her down whar
( the pin was settin'. ~ Full two foot he
druv that thar pole down fore he give
| it up as a bad job, and set down and
/ went to PAWN over that old yaller
! notebook, agin. Fore he set down,
though, he allowed as how he'd give
/ up and take to ranchin'. %r.-
I FINALLY l heered him snickerin' and
I looked over to whar he was, and
thar he set g%rinnin' fit to kill. Come
/ here, ST. SEE. he, and read the dis
/ cription Of this here MONUMENT
Seems he had overlooked readin' that
thar description all this time cause of
it bein' over on the 'right-hand page
with figgerin' all round and runnin'
into it. But thar 1t was, writ plain
enough for anybody once you noticed
IT.. For. the no'thest corner of section
IA, havin' run out Of buffalo horns. 1
set an old grindstone %purloined from
the Wilder, Smiths shed, six inches
below the surface Of the ground
yep. the pole Paul red showed down
\ two foot was stickin' plumb through
the hole in that grindstone!"