2oldfarts (the rockhounders) Posted May 2, 2004 Share Posted May 2, 2004 We just returned from a short vacation in Nv. and we are still on clound 9 from all the great finds we made. The first is a drill hole monumented in 1899 and we are the first to have recovered it since it was monumented!! the PID # is FS1149. The second great find for us was finding a benchmark disk monumented in 1909!! The PID # is FS0601. This is the oldest disk we have found. It has been recovered by the NGS in 1949 and 1963 only. Over 40 years since the last recovery. To go along with these 2 great finds we also found 7 others from 1934/1935, and our first and second 'chiseled squares'!! We got to see our first (in the wild) desert tortoise and one nasty looking desert horned lizard (see our profile main page for a good picture of it.). We hope all of you benchmarkers get to experience the thrills we got to have this past week. Thanks for letting us crow about our finds.... John & Shirley Quote Link to comment
+Kewaneh & Shark Posted May 2, 2004 Share Posted May 2, 2004 Very nice! Definately finds to be proud of. (I'm a bit jealous. ) Keep it up! - Kewaneh Quote Link to comment
+embra Posted May 2, 2004 Share Posted May 2, 2004 Kudos! Those are nice feathers in your cap there...I'm not certain, but I think that drill hole may be a new one for DustyJacket's collection. (It was a new one for my universe) Quote Link to comment
+Black Dog Trackers Posted May 2, 2004 Share Posted May 2, 2004 Way cool! 105 points and 41 points for FS1149 and FS0601! I like your view pic at FS0601. Looks like an interesting mining area. Quote Link to comment
+bons Posted May 2, 2004 Share Posted May 2, 2004 Great finds! Congrats! Nice camera too! (what is it?) Quote Link to comment
+GEO*Trailblazer 1 Posted May 2, 2004 Share Posted May 2, 2004 Way to go Great finds and make sure and stay on Cloud 9. More Benchmarks as happycycler would say. Happy................................................Geotrails Quote Link to comment
2oldfarts (the rockhounders) Posted May 2, 2004 Author Share Posted May 2, 2004 Thanks for your comments, everyone. Bons, the camera is an Olympus C3020 zoom. 3.2 pixel that is large enough for me to hang onto but cheap enough for our wallet. Embra, we're going to resize a couple of pics and send to Dusty. John Quote Link to comment
+GEO*Trailblazer 1 Posted May 2, 2004 Share Posted May 2, 2004 (edited) I see you Liked the HORNY TOAD. I use to have a couple for pets when I lived in Arizona. Is ths HORNY or HONRY Edited May 2, 2004 by GEO*Trailblazer 1 Quote Link to comment
mloser Posted May 2, 2004 Share Posted May 2, 2004 Sometime this summer I am going looking for some of the older marks in our area, and even not-so-in our area! My one major criteria for finding an old mark is that it hasn't been reset or updated--I want to see the work of the original survey party. So if it was set in 1905 as a beer bottle under a rock with a plus carved on it, I want it all to be there. Many marks around here seem to have been reset in the 1930s or 1940s with a standard disk. To me that just doesn't count as a 1905 find! John & Shirley, those are both great finds in my book! The drill hole and the disk are both original (at least I THINK the disk is original--it is different from all that I have seen). I have also found a few chiseled squares, and based on the location of them I think they were done long before they were described. I think I was looking at late 1800s surveying work. This one, KW0735, in Columbia, PA is my favorite find so far. It says it was monument in 1955, but I am sure it was old before then! Keep on hunting! Matt Quote Link to comment
2oldfarts (the rockhounders) Posted May 2, 2004 Author Share Posted May 2, 2004 Mloser, We have found section markers that have the dates of the mid-1910's stamped on them, yet they were 'monumented' in the mid-1950's. So we understand how you feel about that benchmark, KW0735. John Quote Link to comment
+happycycler Posted May 2, 2004 Share Posted May 2, 2004 CONGRATS!!!!!!!! Great finds and great pix! Quote Link to comment
+Rich in NEPA Posted May 2, 2004 Share Posted May 2, 2004 (edited) Smith Gap Reset (KV3628) has a long, interesting, and somewhat colorful history. I would love to have seen the orignal earthen jar from 1882! But I would have even settled for seeing the old surface stone and the four small monuments forming corners around it. What's interesting is the mention that the station was occupied as early as 1875. It was reset with a standard disk in 1929. This was a particularly exciting and fun-filled benchmark hunting adventure and one that Zhanna and I will always remember and talk about. Cheers ... Edited May 2, 2004 by Rich in NEPA Quote Link to comment
+seventhings Posted May 3, 2004 Share Posted May 3, 2004 WOW!!! 105 years. Great finds & photos. Very nicely done! 7 Quote Link to comment
+Spoo Posted May 3, 2004 Share Posted May 3, 2004 Don't worry about 'crowing'.......you have some envious finds! I hope to achieve the same some day.......but till then, I will live on your coat tails. Quote Link to comment
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mloser Posted May 3, 2004 Share Posted May 3, 2004 John, I have yet to find a dated disk that has a different date than the monumented date on the description. Interesting! Quote Link to comment
2oldfarts (the rockhounders) Posted May 3, 2004 Author Share Posted May 3, 2004 Here is a couple of GLO section markers to check out. HN0800 and HN0801 and one last one HN0804 John Quote Link to comment
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