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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…

The Historical Society of New Mexico was founded by a group of New Mexico citizens in Santa Fe on December 26, 1859. At…

The name Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco is better known amongst art historians than amongst surveyors. As an 18th century Santa Fe artist,…

"Let none dare to attribute the shame Of misuse of projections to Mercator’s name; But smother quite, and let infamy light Upon those…

The following is a letter of instructions to Deputy Surveyor John W. Garretson for the survey of the Initial Point, Principal Meridian and…

"The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers," was the proposal that William Shakespeare put into the mouth of a vile…

"It ain’t the things we don’t know that get us into trouble. It is the things we know that ain’t so." Josh Billings…