The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1916-04-14
EXACT TO THE INCH
REMARKABLE INSTANCE OF Ac.
cuRATE SURVEYING.
Fact That "Monnyment" Was a Grind.
stone Had Been Overlooked and
Gave Paul Bunyan Some
Uneasy Moments.

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 of a job he did for Sias
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
81 hired Paul" said Silas, TO run
out my north line because my neigh.
Dor was Amin to string a fence on
what ] knOWed was my land They
had been a stone set twenty rod moth.
east OF my COW barn when the WiddeT
Smith owned the layout, but seemed
as IL | couldn't rightly locate H. But
Paul he had the gov'meat notes foI
the whole county and the one west
80 knowed he could fix me up proper
We'll. him and his loug.laigged boys
come out one mornin' pt sunup and
set out to find a monnyment to start
out from, but they didn't find none TIL
they come 10 the second range line
east; Il was a buffalo horn set seven
inches down in gravel at the aidge ol
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 pat up his inst ment and
90 whar the boys had got to and start
EN- 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. Irecollect Paul was lookin' mighty
cocky when he come up to whar the
last pin was stickin' in the ground.
Thar she be- he sings out, Jest
six inches underground, and f 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 l fetch.
Now Paul havin the name he had |
for doing tiptop work | felt right dis
NPlbAhANN NAAAihAl VI AllAu d-AAAlDDlh
that stone, and ] reckon showed my
feelins some, too. Paul wasn't lookin' I
cocky no more, neither. Never did
see a feller more put out. He reads
all his gov'ment n, tes over time and
lgin, and him and the boys they puts
lown a whole raft cf iggers and takes
urns Aladdin then up.
Then Paul gifts up and takes their
iightin pole md rams he. Gown whar
he pin was settin'. Full two foot he
lruv that thar pole down fore he give
t up as a bad Job, and set down and
vent to PAWN over that old yaller
notebook agin Fore he set down,
hough, he allowed as how he'd give
y and take to ranchin l.
Finally heered him snicknrin' and
looked over to whar he was, and
har he set GRIMM fit to kill. Come
ere, 81, sez he. and read the dis
ription Of this here monnyment'
Gems he had overlooked readin that
lar description all this tine cause Of {
bein' over on the right-hand page
nth fggern' all round and runnin
ITO It. But thar t was, writ plain
nough for anybody once you noticed
4. For the nothest corner Of section [
L. havin run out cf 'utfalo horns, |
et an old grindstone purloined from /
ne Wilder Smiths shed six inches
Glow the surface If the ground. s
Yep, the pole Paul ed showed q )wn
yo foot was stickin plumb through b
le hole in that grinds Dne!" Il