More Than One Surveyor
Careful consideration must be exerted in situations where more than one surveyor’s work may influence the restoration of a corner. Some pertinent questions which may help in determining which method of restoration to use are:
- How well do the surveyors agree in bearings and distances?
- How precise are each surveyors’ closures?
- Was the terrain comparable for each surveyor?
- How long a time period between the surveys?
- How recent was the last surve
Caution: More recent surveys accurate, but not always!
Additional retracement of each surveyor’s work in the same township may help to substantiate a preference (confidence) for using his work or giving his work more weight than another surveyor’s work.
Conventional methods of corner restoration may give way to the preponderence of evidence.
Problem: The corner of sections 10, 11, 14 and 15 is lost, as well as the 1/4 corner between sections 10 and 15. How should they be restored?
