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No. THE — WORKS 4 — 1671^*e3tern //toy- !»/,/,. r Sy. PROGRAM Works Progress Administration — For Release to Newspapers Sunday, May 8, 1938. First Geodetic Control Surveys "by WPA Near Completion The first of 14-State-wide geodetic control surveys Works L. Progress Administration Hopkins announced The work, to locate their based on being made will be finished within SO days, Administrator in the final now boundary following millions of dollars' lines stages in Georgia, will enable property precisely in coordination with the national system of the U. uncertain surveys that have worth of S. Oklahoma, town mile or owners survey property. South Carolina, In each of these 14 States a Harry Coast and Geodetic Survey, being are made by the WPA in New Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Iowa, Louisiana, Massachusetts, brought within the resulted in litigation involving State~wid.e surveys of similar nature also North Carolina, by today. the State-wide coordinate instead of now two of most a Tennessee and Virginia. precise rural Jersey, survey marker of this properties, property, making it practical for individual lines against permanent and accurate markers. survey will be and much closer to owners to check their city and property 4 No. 2 - The U. S. entire country and setting up to indicate latitude and longitude, markers are being The WPA distributed in as If projects, directed by M. he easily give can national survey, its turbing ual engineer farm a description location landmarks based on on - into much smaller spacings property old deeds with time be can on the national restored to astronomical a a for the ones one its location for all future or their original on location time example on a simplified position. The the - dis- individ- an precise mathe- means by which the geodetic Polaris, the North Star, the on deed is "the Maryland a cases, without As old landmarks of records. classic in most two miles, or precise mathematical survey affords observations apart. Poling, consulting engineer, consist marker within a other show elevation. These about 25 miles arcs Powder Mill Run where Bill Jones killed the Indian" on matical or find which will preserve property disappear point can or basic a network of "station markers" bench marks to as Y. a making and surveyors. practising engineers an well series of belts a of breaking down the Coast and Geodetic convenience of - Coast and Geodetic Survey has the task of survey of the control 1671 — surveys instead of on are shift- ing magnetic bearings. The U. to end dating litigation The ployment sity of Coast and Geodetic, hodge-podge surveying States, and S. for from Colonial over $15,000,000 mapping. supplementary WPA Inaccurate and piecemeal times, have caused property are surveys owners designed surveys in many endless confusion boundaries. supplementary engineers the work. and and and survey work began in 1933 under the CWA to surveying personnel, Altogether, the CWA, FERA.and for State-wide projects alone. not provide to mention the value and WPA have allotted The WPA is also more carrying on em- neces- than individual No. g _ in urban projects and projects also are and hundreds of The WPA is cities and counties. now similar surveys for considering individual cities and counties is based smaller on spacing by precise the WPA surveys, and their manently located, the survey are and Erie the standards and personnel, State control done the American lent others. being broken into gradually being per- are measures for tying in to counties and States. in on Westchester, Nassau, the State-wide on are and surveys is the U.S. Coast and Geodetic to various States, publish helped to Survey's Washington office, the details of these Survey, instruct The markers being checked data. recorded in the in accordance with surveys. techthe placed by as The well as surveys conform to the Technical Procedures for City Surveys authorized by Society The WPA has consult with equipment States will also The Legal being carried regulations authorized by surveys of urban areas to be being assigned technical advisers nical locally. individual properties survey is some the national network which As the major network is being enacted in cities, and counties. All the work which has tied into Cincin- Chicago, Omaha, Superior, Youngstown positions preserved. In New York State the Saratoga being are "North American datum." the $972,000, of • nati, Milwaukee, Madison, St. Paul, DuLuth, The allotment an operation in Cleveland, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, Denver in small 1671 — _ city of Boston has received The areas. 4 city, of Civil Engineers. provided county the and State services of an expert on geodetic control to officials regarding the technical procedures employed. t In many of the 14 States where State-wide States are urging all property tract to the nearest owners State control to connect at survey marker at projects least one are under way, corner the earliest the of their possible moment. • Ancient property line such corners, rapidly that other-,7ise the 4 - as ted "booklets to property decaying are generation will "be forced next owners, "being obliterated to undertake establish unquestioned one forestry lines, and flood in time of war, and, geographical The surveys, and the advantages in detail. Any property the in use a canals and and mine, cities, States, and reclamation the work now undei counties, projects; agriculture, railroads, oil and gas gun fire. It will serve all including mapping of all descriptions. purposes, coordinated network also eliminates the old-fashioned isolated new point surveys of positions for effective topographical and the laborious and if any soil protection; surveys . basis for highways, power lines, irrigation, drainage new so States, like Louisiana, have distribu- Some describing or In addition to its benefits-to private property owners, way.will 1671 — - trees, .xmtinue the extensive litigation. and 4 No. ^ preliminary have can is lost or destroyed it without The geodetic control bling of.survey information, astronomical true of accurate coordinates. perfect framework, researches for future All gaps, can be overlaps salient or the most with replaced surveys will survey affords its bearings, surveying. minimum of effort be relative to all other by surveys offsets. comprehensive a a accurate known, point being and systematic assem- fundamental and lasting its character. The U.S. nate mined on a systems for "by .the Coast and Geodetic all shape of the 48 States. and size State-wide basis use Survey new computed State-wide plane coordi- The basis for the of the State. these has plane All of the WPA coordinate projection used is deter- projects being operated systems as recommended by the Federal agency. Wherever possible, the projects of this character quired to establish their coordinates on the State-wide in urban system. areas are re-
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