The quaint little town of Mesilla, or La Mesilla as it was called at the time of its founding, started its life in…
Author: Fred Roeder, LS
04.04.2009
The Una de Gato Forgery
Opportunity came to Jesus Maria Gomez y Lopez on a memorable day in March 1862. While Confederate troops occupied Santa Fe, the nineteen…
04.04.2009
John W. Garretson
While Surveyor General William Pelham tended his duties in Santa Fe, the initial fieldwork in the establishment of the rectangular survey system in…
04.04.2009
And the Sun Stood Still
… And he said in the sight of Israel: “Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon” … and the sun stood still; (Josh. 10:12-13)
04.04.2009
New Mexico's Historic East Boundary
By an Act of Congress, generally referred to as the Compromise of 1850, New Mexico’s east boundary was set at the 103rd meridian….
04.04.2009
That Dumb Surveyor
Remember, son, many a good story has been ruined by oververification. —James Gordon Bennett, Editor; New York Herald (1835-67)
04.04.2009
J. H. Dorroh and the Registration Act
New Mexico in 1917 had become one of the first states in the U.S. to license land surveyors, but by 1930 it was…
03.21.2009
Ehud N. Darling
In the last issue I mentioned that Walter Marmon as well as George Pradt came to New Mexico to survey with Darling without…
03.21.2009
The Cruzate Grants
Considering that the Spanish colonizers had more than three centuries to do it, one would assume that the twenty Indian pueblos of New…
03.21.2009
Crescit Eundo
Crescit eundo, it grows at it goes, has been the motto of New Mexico since 1851 when the territorial seal was first designated….
