Precise Leveling in the United States 1903-1907

Hayford, John Fillmore; Pike, L.

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Persistent identifier:: 883838079

Author:: Hayford, John Fillmore; Pike, L.

Title:: Precise Leveling in the United States 1903-1907

Sub title:: with a readjustment of the level net and resulting elevations

Scope:: 280 Seiten, 1 Karte

DOI:: 10.14463/GBV:883838079

Year of publication:: 1909

Place of publication:: Washington

Publisher of the original:: Government Printing Office

Identifier (digital):: 883838079

Illustration:: 1 Karte

Language:: English

Usage licence:: Public Domain Mark 1.0

Publisher of the digital copy:: Technische Informationsbibliothek Hannover

Place of publication of the digital copy:: Hannover

Year of publication of the original:: 2017

Document type:: Monograph

Collection:: Earth sciences

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Title:: DESCRIPTIONS OF BENCH MARKS.

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Title:: DESCRIPTIONS OF PERMANENT BENCH MARKS BETWEEN GRAFTON AND CHICAGO, ILL., 1902-4.

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PRECISE LEVELING IN THE UNITED STATES, 1903-1907. 177 DESCRIPTIONS OF PERMANENT BENCH MARKS BETWEEN GRAFTON AND CHICAGO, ILL., 1902-4. [These descriptions are published in House Document No. 263, Fifty-ninth Congress, first session, and are republished here. Slight changes are made for the purpose of indexing and for condensation by means of general notes.] P. B. M. 4.—Grafton, Jersey Co., III. (See App. 8, Report for 1899, p. 719.) P. B. M. 3.—Grafton, Jersey Co., III. (See App. 8, Report for 1899, p. 719.) In building the tower to the church in 1901, the stone doorstep was moved from its position in 1880, at the front of the church, some 6 feet E. to the front of the tower. P. B. M. 2.—Near Grafton, Jersey Co., III. (See App. 8, Report for 1899, p. 719.) The B. M. is in the top of a dressed stone post. T. B. M. 2.—In the natural rock, on the northerly side of highway running along the foot of the bluffs on the L. B. of the Illinois River to the W. of Grafton, III., the bench being 7.5 feet from center of wagon track and about 3.75 feet above it. In the 100 feet from and easterly of the bench the highway makes a bend of about 90° around the foot of the rocky ledge at this point. William Bennett’s house stands on the hillside, about 166 feet northwesterly from the bench, as measured along the wagon track, to a point opposite the center of his house. Southerly of the bench, between the highway and the river, is a cleared field with a stone fence along the highway and from the highway to the river on the E. side of the field. The bench is 1 024 feet westerly of, or above, Deer Plain Ferry, as measured along the wagon track of highway, from a point opposite the ferry landing. (Note 42, p. 129.) P. B. M. 1.—Stone, pipe, and cap (see note 41, p. 129), set in the southwesterly cornerof the Hartford Church cemetery, back of Carsons Ldg. on the river, and about 5.3 miles W. of the Catholic Church in Grafton, III. The bench is 117.8 feet westerly from the NW. corner of Hartford Church and 88 feet northeasterly from the center of the highway following the foot of the bluffs. A white-oak tree, 1.5 feet in diameter, stands 21.5 feet (center) northeasterly, and a black-oak tree, 2.5 feet in diameter, stands 67.8 feet (center) northeasterly of the bench but less to the E. than the white oak, both trees being in the cemetery. In the NE. sec. 16) T. 6 N., R. 13 W., Jersey County, III. T. B. M. 8.—Near Rosedale, Jersey Co., III.; highest point in a square cut on the top of the south westerly part of a limestone bowlder projecting from the ground on the easterly side of the northerly and southerly highway following the foot of the bluffs. There is a small rise in the highway just to the N. of the bowlder. The bench is about 375 feet northerly from the southerly end of an osage orange hedge fence on westerly §ide of highway, about 285 feet northerly from the southerly end of a stone fence in the hedge row, 60.5 feet easterly from said stone fence, and 27 feet easterly from center of present wagon track. In sec. 33, T. 7 N., R. 13 W., Jersey Co., Ill., about 3 000 feet N. from the E. and W. line between Quarry and Rosedale townships. The bench is marked U. S. The U is on the northwesterly slope of the bowlder and the S on the southeasterly slope, the bowlder coming to an edge at the top, which edge extends in a northeasterly and southwesterly direction. T. B. M. 9.—Near Rosedale, Jersey Co., III., on a limestone bowlder measuring about 4.5 feet in its E. and W. dimension and about 5 feet in its N. and S. dimensions, and having an approximately flat upper surface. The bowlder is in the highway running northerly and southerly along the foot of the bluffs, the bench being 8 feet E. from center of wagon track and 2 feet W. from easterly highway fence line. There is another good-sized bowlder 37 feet (center) southerly from B. M. on E. side of wagon track, to which it presents a sloping face. The highway here passes over a small rise in the ground and by a number of trees in its vicinity to the westward. Of these, a 16-inch elm stands 24.5 feet (center) southwesterly, a 14-inch elm 53.5 feet (center) northwesterly, and a 12-inch honey locust, standing just E. of easterly highway fence, 59.5 feet (center) northerly from bench. The house and barn of Mr. A. Ridenour are about 650 feet southerly from bench. In sec. 28, T. 7 N., R. 13 W., Jersey Co., Ill. (Note 42, p. 129.) P. B. M. 2.—Top of copper bolt leaded vertically into a large rock on the E. side of the highway running along the foot of the bluffs. The rock projects into the highway about 3 feet beyond the fence line. In general dimensions this rock is 7 feet N. and S., 23 feet E. and W. and 5.5 feet above ground. The bolt is near the NW. corner of the rock, being 8 inches from its northerly and 10 inches from its westerly side, and about 3.25 feet above ground. It is 404 feet northerly from the NE. corner of William Harris’s log house. In sec. 21, T. 7 N., R. 13 W., Jersey Co., III., about 0.7 of a mile S. of Rosedale post-office. The bench is marked U. S., the bolt being in the center of a square between the letters. 65286—09 12

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