Month: April 2009

The following column I wrote under the title In Retrospect for the July 1998 issue of BENCHMARKS. I made some changes to reflect…

In the spacious, Southwestern style home he built in 1975 high on the steep west bank of the Rio Grande in Albuquerque I…

In the 17th and 18th centuries the principal instrument of the navigator at sea was the Davis quadrant, also known as English quadrant,…

William Pelham held office as the first Surveyor General of New Mexico from 1854 until 1860. His tenure has been examined by Victor…

The accuracy to which todays surveyors locate a point on the surface of the globe, and the speed with which precise measurements are…

Bring me men to match my mountains… Sam Foss Somebody once wrote that surveyors are remembered only by the monuments which they themselves…

Good Afternoon, My name is Fred Roeder. I am a retired surveyor and I live in Tularosa. There is an expression in surveying…

In writing about the boundaries of our state in previous columns I concerned myself primarily with the surveys, which put these lines on…

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…

Where the Great River of the North has cut through the narrow between the Franklin Mountains of Texas and New Mexico’s Sierra de…