Volume 26: Issue 4 October, 2015 LL II NN EE SS & PP OO II NN TT SS www.plsw.org THE EQUALITY STATE SURVEYOR PROFESSIONAL LAND SURVEYORS OF WYOMING Lines & Points 1|Page October 2015 Volume 26: Issue 4 October, 2015 L I N E S & P O I N T S www.plsw.org A PICTURE OF THE U.S. LAND OFFICE IN LANDER WYOMING THAT WAS FOUND IN THE FREMONT COUNTY PIONEER President Sonja “Suzie” Sparks, PLS MUSEUM IN LANDER. On The Cover THE EQUALITY STATE SURVEYOR PROFESSIONAL LAND SURVEYORS OF WYOMING President Elect Randall Stelzner, PLS Secretary/Treasurer Marlowe Scherbel, PLS CONTENTS Page 3 PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Page 4 ANNOUNCEMENTS Cotton Jones, PLS Area Governor Page 5 PRExY PASTURE PARTY CHIEF By: Mark Rehwaldt, PLS Page 10 TRIG1STAR KENNY IS A Mark Corbridge, PLS CONCRETE DREAMER Wyoming Delegate By: Ben Ramsey Page 11 GEODETIC SURvEYING: PART vIII THE ACTIVITIES OF THE ORDNANCE SURVEY PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE OF ENGLAND FROM 1845 UNTIL 1870 Committee Larry Perry, PLS By: Herbert Stoughton, PhD, PELS, CP Chair
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