“Bring me men to match my mountains…” —Sam Foss Somebody once wrote that surveyors are remembered only by “the monuments which they…
Author: Fred Roeder, LS
04.11.2009
Obituary for Bob Stephenson
Good Afternoon, My name is Fred Roeder. I am a retired surveyor and I live in Tularosa. There is an expression in surveying…
04.11.2009
The New Mexico Notch
In writing about the boundaries of our state in previous columns I concerned myself primarily with the surveys, which put these lines on…
04.11.2009
A Surveyor's Mythology
A Surveyor’s Mythology I claim the stars high in your heaven, Zeus. Cassiopeia’s chair, Orion’s faithful hound. Arcturus, Leda’s twins, and Betelgeuse, Are…
04.11.2009
Boundary Monument No. 1
Where the Great River of the North has cut through the narrow between the Franklin Mountains of Texas and New Mexico’s Sierra de…
04.11.2009
Guadalupe Miranda
The Historical Society of New Mexico was founded by a group of New Mexico citizens in Santa Fe on December 26, 1859. At…
04.11.2009
Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco
The name Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco is better known amongst art historians than amongst surveyors. As an 18th century Santa Fe artist,…
04.05.2009
Mercator – Surveyor and Mapper
"Let none dare to attribute the shame Of misuse of projections to Mercator’s name; But smother quite, and let infamy light Upon those…
04.05.2009
Pelham's Instructions
The following is a letter of instructions to Deputy Surveyor John W. Garretson for the survey of the Initial Point, Principal Meridian and…
04.05.2009
Surveyor and Lawyer
"The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers," was the proposal that William Shakespeare put into the mouth of a vile…
