Year: 1873

1t will be seen by the proceedings of the
Board of Supervisors, published in this pa
per, that steps are being taken to procure a
county official map, as contemplated by the
Codes. This is all proper, if a map can be
had that will bear changing to suit the changes
that are bound to take place in the local
districts of the county. We paid s40O but
few years ago for map of the county
which is absolutely correct as far as the
United States surveys had then been made.
AT ;hc time this map was being prepared,
Supervisor Pratt told us that the bargain
was that the additional surveys were to be
furnished and marked Oh this map us they
were made n the future. If this was now
done the county would have complete map
of the county. If the prty making thai
map refuse or dec ne to fulfill their contract,
it will not cost the county much to obtain
the additional new township plats and have
them added to the old map, as these pats
can be had at the Surveyor Generals Office
for five dollars each. We have obtained
them at that price fifteen years ago, when
the cost Of copying them was much higher
than it ought to be now. The additional
surveys made since the old county map was
drawn cannot exceed ten or fifteen, and could
therefore be had at cost of one hundred or
one hundred and fifty dollars. These pats
can be drawn on transparent copying paper
that is the cheapest way and just as good
and attached to the present map, with data
she can never get at any reasonable cost in
field work. The remainder of the county
not sectonalized or iownshiped is only an
extreme southeast corner, scarcely inhabited
or inhabtable. This done and the old map
would be complete and furnish all the data
desired for Il nap of the county on any scale
desired and from which maps if desired maps
of every separate district in the county could
be readily drawn. Embody the above sug-
gestons into an existing fact on the present
map Of the county, then draw the townships
on it, the revenue districts, the school and
road districts and you have an accurate map
of the county and all the districts containing
more accurate matter and data than any
man or set of men can procure ty field work
and transfer to paper for ten thousand dollars.
If it is thought that some field work is want
ed where the Z. S. Surveyors haze not been
very good, but make it cheaply and SO it can
be all rubbed out when the L. S. Surveys
are made. Draw the townships, road and
school district lines on the legal lines
sLbdividing the lands into sections,
quarter sections, and 40 acre tracts if you
r'oaco aud thor n,oLa tho ord;nancos dofnino
them comply with the lines thus drawn. AL
this can be done on the old map With colored
inks. 1t is not necessary to 90 out of the
county to do all this, send list of the town
ship plats now on the old map to either the
Sacramento Land Office or Surveyor Genera
Hardenburghs, at San Francisco, with {
request to have the remainder of tie pas il
this county copied and sent up, and then any
draugh'sman or even copyist can from thi,
data draw ON Il larger or smaller scale all The
mapswaned. We offer these suggestion,
as worthy the careful consideration of the SUI
pervisors just now.