The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1917-07-21
THE COURTHOUSE KING
HASA NEW PASS WORD

lost, the county surveyor shall
fix new posts in accordance with
the field notes Of said U. S. sur
veyor, marked similarly to the
original posts.
The county surveyor shall col
lect fixed fees for his work and
the board of county commission
ers shall provide proper and
necessary books for records and
surveys, the same to be public
and open at all reasonable times
to inspection by any person.
While there is not a single
word heard against county sur
veyor Anderson as an individual,
many local surveyors and en-
gineers do consider him incom-
petent professionally and the
records Of his office deficient and
insufficient to an extent that
prevent them from coming up to
legal requirements.
All the county road work, once
handled by the county surveyor,
has passed out Of his hands and
into those of the county road
engineer, whose salary is equal
to any in the county, outside of
the district judges, and greatly in
ejxcess of that of officials more
tightly tied down and more
strenuously worked. While the
road engineers records may be
open to the public, said public
naturally expects to find them
with the county surveyor and
made a part of his office records.
Special complaint is made to
the effect that many corner
stakes and bearing trees, dug
out lost Or DESTROYED in.the.
road-making work, never are re-
placed either by the road en-.
gineers or the county surveyor,
although it is the fixed duty of
the latter to re-establish any
missing monuments, marks or
stakes. Confusion, delay and
loss of time are thereby caused
surveyors doing work for the
county or for private clients.
While Mr.. Anderson cannot be
blamed for it, it further is
charged that entirely too many
of the so-called county road en-
gineers are but chainmen and not
real surveyors or engineers.
Much work done in recent years
in St. Louis county is crude and
inaccurate. Three miles of Yer
million Road, for example, not
only run in a bow or a curve
between sections 2 and 3, 10 and
II, IA and Is, 51-14, but said
road does not follow the section
line. It is fully AZ feet east Of
the real section line, therefore
entirely on the land Of owners
on the east side of the section
line and, further than that,
leaves a corresponding strip Of
| their property on the western
side of the road, all to the loss
of the one side of the road and
the extra benefit Of the other
side.
At one place on the Howard
Gnesen road there are two corner
posts-one on either side Of the
road. One corner must be right
and the other wrong, but time
and trouble must be taken by a
competent engineer to find which
is the correct one.
Generous, kindly, much-milked
old ST.. Louis county, therefore,
spends at least $4,000 a year for
a county surveyor who hardly
turns a hand for the neat salary
drawn by him. He is Of no more
use than a wart on the nose of
the King of the Courthouse or
side whiskers on the Prime
Minister. He is just about as
much benefit to the county as
the municipal fox was to the city
of Duluth.
County surveyor Anderson is
not obnoxious in his manner of
drawing this salary for which
he does practically nothing. He
tries to keep out of the way Of
busy people. He never attempts
to show Konge Odin how to run
the county or the courthouse. He
comes quietly in the morning,
reads the papers, ponders on
| what fine farm he can buy when