lember Always read the North end 

 of needle, it will indicate your angle. 

 If, for example, while sighting to an object 

 the north end points 10 degrees between S. 

 and E., read the angle South 10 East. 



Number of Paces. 



You will vary from a given point in running 

 one mile (17% paces) for each degree. If you 

 err to the right, variation is too low; raise it. 

 If to the left, you are too high; lower it. i or 

 of one mile will cause you to vary i or of 

 the number of paces given, etc. 



NOTE Please remember that surveys don't 

 always show true corners. Too often is it 

 found that the Governmental Surveyors have 

 been careless or negligent in their establish- 

 ment of proper Section or quarter posts. 

 Therefore be diligent in your search for them . 



Standard Corners and Closing Corners, 

 marked S. C. and C. C. respectively, are es- 

 tablished by the government on township 

 lines (rather Correction lines) from a few feet 

 to several hundred feet apart. Therefore 

 guard against taking the wrong one. The 

 government establishes no Quarter Post on 

 Correction lines to a Closing Section; in other 

 words, between two Closing Corners. 



Sight Trees Are those which the line ac- 

 tually passes through, and are marked with 

 two notches on each side, and are called for 

 in the field notes mark the line. 



TEXAS LAND MEASURE. 



(Also used in Mexico, New Mexico, Arizona 

 and California.) 



1 vara equals 331 inches. 



1,900. .8 varas equals 1 mile. 



3,612,800 square varas equals 1 section 

 equals 640 acres. 



225,800 square varas equals 1^ section 

 equals 40 acres. 



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