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Show Record river in time for me to take my baggage and catch the train at Thompson. Our survey parties on the Colorado obtained the major portion of their supplies by trucks and wagons at points near our camp, whence they were carried on pack animals. Some of our supplies were hauled down the river by the Moab Garage Company 2684 and by our own small row boat. I was on the high land east of the river at a point seven or eight miles down from Moab, where it is a ledge country and very rough, with high cliffs and sparse vegetation and saw no people living in that section. I was also on the high land at No. 2 Well, where the country is 2685 very similar to that just described and without inhabitants. 2686 A meander line is a surveyed line by courses and measurements along the mean high water mark. We divide the land adjoining the river into lots, subdivide the sections, and the fractional section that adjoins the meander line is divided into lots and given a number, which is used in disposing of the frac- 2687 tional land adjacent to the meander line. A monument at mean high water mark is erected at the time the subdivisional survey is run and we call that monument a meander corner; then the in-tervening space between meander corners is run as a broken line 2688 at the mean high water mark between meander corners. The mean high water mark is regarded in our department as the limit of the land that the government disposes of and is determined from the physical conditions around the stream. It is usually at the 2689 edge of vegetation. Navigable bodies of water were meandered regardless of their width and non- navigable waters are meandered 2691 where their width is in excess of three chains. We follow our survey instructions in determining what streams shall be meandered. Meander corner monuments are part of the public land survey system and section lines are monumented where they cross meandered bodies of water by means of what we tern meander corners. 2692 We only meander when we subdivide the land adjoining the body of water. The pleading map is not up to date; we have townships of |
