36 TIMBER BONDS 



went to the U. S. Government Land Office and 

 obtained the field notes, from which he ran his 

 base lines, consisting of north and south sur- 

 veys on range lines, and east and west surveys 

 on township lines, establishing from these gov- 

 ernment field notes all government corners and 

 quarter posts besides establishing all eighth 

 posts. A sworn copy of his survey is on file 

 with us. The bases were run for the purpose 

 of giving the timber cruisers base lines and 

 corners to work from, so they could prove up 

 their work on each and every section or frac- 

 tion thereof, as will be seen later. All cruis- 

 ing work is done on these lines. Where corners 

 are not perfectly plain, a competent surveyor 

 is always employed to establish such points 

 from government field notes, for although 

 cruisers of ability understand how to find cor- 

 ners, they take no chances, preferring to have 

 them established by competent surveyors, so 

 there will be no question of accuracy. A cruiser 

 will not begin an estimate until the corners 

 are established. 



"All corners having been established, Mr. 

 Straight assigned the crews to work. They 

 were started at different points and worked 

 to a common center with the intention to have 

 all the crews meet about the same time. Each 

 crew is furnished with plats of the different 

 portions of the land allotted to it, the descrip- 

 tions all being checked from the original deeds 

 to the property. Not less than two crews work 



