12 PRIMARY TRI ANGULATION AND PRIMARY TRAVERSE. 
Geographic positions along Southern Railway near Shoal ('red-. 
Station. 
Shoal Creek, center of bridge over. 
Road crossing north and south... 
Latitude 
38 32 40. 4 
38 32 28.8 
Longitude. 
30 47.5 
29 52. 8 
Geographic positions along highways. 
Station. 
T road south at large wooden cross 
Bartelso, 1.25 miles southwest of, at T road north, in southeast cor- 
ner of field owned by Eennan Soqle; nail in blaze on tree bears N. 
76° 45' E., distant 39.8 feet; iron post stamped "Prim. Trav. Sta. 
No. 25, 1905" 
Murch's schoolhouse. T road east, just south of, 25 feet northeast to 
cross on wild-cherry tree, 31 feel southeast to corner wire fence 
Germantown, T road south 1.5 miles south of, 33 feet southeast to 
cross on post 
Center of private road 
T. 1 N., R. 4 \V ., corner sees. 8, 9, 16, and 17, T road north 
T. 1 N., K. 1 W., corner sees. 7, s, 17. and 18, crossroads, 36 feet north- 
east to large apple tree, 37 feel soul heast to locust tree 
T. 1 X„ 1!. 1 \\ '., east corner sees. 18 and 19 
T. 1 V, U. 4 W., corner sees. 18 and 19 (west corner), 24 feet west to 
cross on rail fence, T road east 
T. 1 N., K. 5 W., east corner sees. 24 and 25, T road west, 50 feet north- 
west to cross on fence, 39 feet west to south end of tile culvert 
T. 1 N., R. 5 W., southwest corner sec. 24, 0.5 mile east of Damiansville, 
iron post stamped " I 'run. Trav. Sta. No. 26, 1905" 
Damiansville. Catholic Church spire 
Damiansville schoolhouse, 1.25 miles west of T road east, 42 feet south- 
east to northwest corner of schoolhouse, 25 feet southwest to north 
end of small bridge 
Latitude. 
o 
, 
„ 
38 
32 
11.0 
38 
31 
44.8 
38 
31 
41.8 
38 
38 
38 
31 
31 
32 
47.1 
44.2 
16. 1 
38 
38 
32 
31 
17. 5 
24. 9 
38 
31 
27.1 
38 
30 
35. 2 
38 
38 
30 
30 
36. 3 
35. 8 
38 
30 
48.6 
Longitude. 
29 02.9 
89 29 02.8 
89 30 24.9 
89 31 31.8 
89 33 00.9 
89 33 12.3 
89 34 18.2 
89 34 17. 
89 35 34.9 
89 35 34.9 
89 36 42.2 
89 37 24.4 
Geographic positions along Southern Railway near New Baden. 
Station. 
New Baden, north-south road crossing aboul 3 miles east of, Southern 
Rwy. crossing 
Milepost 34, private-road crossing 
New Baden station 
Milepost 31, road crossing north and south 170 feet west of 
North-south road crossing of Southern Rwy, near southwest corner 
of field of J. B. Freese, iron post stamped " Prim. Trav. Sta. No. 17, 
1905" , 
Latitude. 
38 31 54.3 
38 31 53.2 
38 31 53.0 
38 31 54.2 
38 31 55.6 
Longitude. 
89 38 57.0 
89 40 37. 4 
89 42 03. 1 
89 43 58. 5 
MENARD AND SANGAMON COUNTIES. 
TALLTJLA QUADRANGLE. 
The positions in the following list were determined by primary 
traverse, run in June, 1905, by E. L. McNair, topographer. The 
line begins at Browns Crossing, on the Wabash Railroad, at the 
western boundary of Sangamon County, and runs north on or near 
the county line to about the center of T. 18 N., R. 8 W., Menard 
County, thence east to Petersburg: 
