Michigan Engineers' Annual Containing the Proceedings of the Michigan Engineering Society, Volumes 10-121889 - Engineering |
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Page 125 - And the boundary lines which have not been actually run and marked shall be ascertained by running straight lines from the established corners to the opposite corresponding corners; but in those portions of the fractional townships where no such opposite corresponding corners have been or can be fixed, the boundary lines shall be ascertained by running from the established corners- due north and south or east and west lines, as the case may be, to the watercourse, Indian boundary line, or other external...
Page 156 - Stiffness to avoid any tremor, even in a strong wind, and thorough workmanship in every part. Their instruments are in general use by the US Government Engineers, Geologists and Surveyors, and the range of instruments, as made by them for River, Harbor, City, Bridge, Tunnel, Railroad and Mining Engineering, as well as those made for Triangulation or Topographical Work and Land Surveying, etc., is larger than that of any other firm in the country. Illustrated Manual and Catalogue sent on Application.
Page 125 - First. All the corners marked In the surveys, returned by the surveyor-general, shall be established as the proper corners of sections or subdivisions of sections, which they were Intended to designate; and the corners of half and quarter sections, not marked on the surveys, shall be placed as nearly as possible equidistant from two corners which stand on the same line.
Page 103 - Total, sTisIjs: u. which is the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of the discharged gases 1° Fahr.
Page 125 - ... is correct. Luckett v. Scruggs, (Tex.) 11 SW 529. 38. An instruction that the beginning corner of a survey is of no higher dignity or importance than any other corner, and that, " if there are well-known and undisputed original corners established upon the ground around the survey, they would control the other calls of the survey, which are conflicting and contradictory, if there are any such,
Page 165 - Board of Directors — The annual meeting of the board of directors was held at the Statler Hotel on Sunday, February 24.
Page 126 - The statement of the quantity of land supposed to be conveyed, and inserted in deeds by way of description, must not only yield to natural land-marks and marked lines, but also to descriptions in deeds by courses and distances.
Page 37 - ... effervesce with acids, that they make a paste with water, which is absorbed so rapidly as to make a slight noise. This paste can be drawn out without breaking, and is very plastic. Dry, they are solid, and break into scales when struck. They have a soapy feel, are scratched or polished by the nail; can be cut into long ribbons with a knife, and appear somewhat like horn. When fresh from the quarry they have a more or less fetid odor, owing to the presence of some decomposed organic substances.
Page 69 - This is what is called refined by hardening. No. 7 will be refined and hard on the corners and edges, and rather coarser and not quite so hard in the middle. This is about the right heat for hardening taps, milling tools, &c., the teeth of which will be amply hard while there will be no danger of cracking the tool.