2018 Issue

70 APLS, NALS, and UCLS was formed. Cost estimates for products and materi- al were prepared. Cost estimates came in at roughly $8,000. A fundraiser was started and the APLS, NALS, and UCLS associations kicked off the fundraiser with large donations. Rapidly individual surveyors and surveying companies started sending in their donations. This fundraising effort was complete in only a few short months receiving donations from surveyors and surveying com- panies located in Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. In all a total donation of $8, 675.00 were received. Here is a list of materials purchased for this project… • Three 15 foot flag poles, one for each state, and one 20 foot flag pole for the flag of the United States of America. Four solar LED lights, wayfinding signs and addi- tional flags - $3,715 • 48” diameter, 1½” thick granite stone - $700 (partial donation by Southwest Marble & Granite) • Engraving the design on the gran- ite stone - $800 (partial donation by Kenworthy Signs & Monuments) • Materials (nine bags of ready-to- use concrete mix, silicone, fenc- ing materials, thin set - $283 • Two basalt boulders with laser engraved black tiles - $500 • Commemorative Medallions, and easels - $2680 Here is a list of materials donated for this project… • 60 bags of ready-to-use concrete mix, one 42” diameter x 3½’ long sonotube, four 24” diameter x 3½’ long sonotubes, two tarps, rebar cages for concrete, sand (dona- tion by Clyde Companies) • Flags (donation from James A. Olschewski, PLS, CET, SR/WA, UCLS member) • Stainless steel center pin for the monument (donation from Adam Allen, PLS, UCLS Member) • There were also hundreds of hours of service completed by many men that wanted to be part of this impressive accomplishment. Those that donated their time, money, or materials all received a commemo- rative medallion to proudly display on their desks at work, or wherever they chose to place them. The first step in this re-monumentation project was to perform a retracement survey, which was performed by the collaboration of the three states BLM offices (AZ, NV, and UT). On Friday, November 4, 2016 the three BLM offices, along with members of the three State Professional Land Survey- or Societies of the APLS, NALS, and UCLS meet to perform this retrace- ment survey. There were approximate- ly 25 people in attendance on this day. The day was started with a brief history of the surveys that had been performed over a hundred years ago given by Dan Webb (a brief history can be read at the end of the article). After the history three survey groups were formed, one group heading north on the Nevada and Utah State lines, one group heading east on the Arizona and Utah State lines, and one head- ing south on the Arizona and Nevada State lines. The crews to the east and south went out a mile looking for and tying in old survey markers, while the crew to the north went about 1½ miles looking for old survey markers as well as evidence of the 1870 Survey mentioned in the history below. This re-survey took most of an eight-hour day but was very rewarding. Each crew used survey grade GPS equipment which gives sub centimeter accuracy. The measurements and descriptions will become part of the Public Land Survey System Plat and the field notes that are recorded for land managers and the public use. The Bureau of Land Management's Cadastral Survey Program is one of the oldest and most fundamental func- tions of the United States Government, with origins in the Land Ordinance of 1785. Cadastral Surveys are the foun- dation of our national land tenure sys- tem; creating, reestablishing, marking, and defining land boundaries. After completion of the retracement survey, crews like those mentioned above went out on January 27, 2017, to record and remove the original Tri-State Monument set in 1901, and prepared the ground and poured con- crete for the new monument and flag poles you see there today. As the 1901 monument was carefully being dug out we were anxious to see what was in the ground beneath the monument. You see when Carpenter’s astronomical observations determined that the 1870 monument set by James was set 111.51 chains too far north, he indicated that