Wild T2

Station Glasgow JZ3336 http://www.geocaching.com/mark/details.asp?PID=JZ3336 Fairly long because of so many recovery notes. There are two recovery notes from 1935. The first one is from a USC&GS employee named R.P. Hoover. The second is from the property owner, a Mr. Jasper Bilby who was also a USC&GS employee. Hoover probably just did a "drive by" recovery and never even got out of his car. Probably not a good thing to do when the property owner also happened to be the highest ranking civilian employee in the USC&GS. I suspect Mr. Hoover probably got fired. The tall steel towers used in the triangulation surveys were called Bilby Towers; named after their inventor. [This message was edited by Wild T2 on December 18, 2002 at 11:59 AM.]

They can be shaped all kinds of ways. The round with the flared notch is probably the most common. The two "used" marks were from bridge replacements and a new bench mark was set after construction.

Descriptions and elevations for DNR and the old IFC&WRC bench marks can be found at... http://www.in.gov/dnr/water/comm_assistance/benchmarks/index.html