Author: Fred Roeder, LS

Opportunity came to Jesus Maria Gomez y Lopez on a memorable day in March 1862. While Confederate troops occupied Santa Fe, the nineteen…

While Surveyor General William Pelham tended his duties in Santa Fe, the initial fieldwork in the establishment of the rectangular survey system in…

And he said in the sight of Israel: Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon and the sun stood still; (Josh. 10:12-13)

By an Act of Congress, generally referred to as the Compromise of 1850, New Mexicos east boundary was set at the 103rd meridian….

Remember, son, many a good story has been ruined by oververification. James Gordon Bennett, Editor; New York Herald (1835-67)

New Mexico in 1917 had become one of the first states in the U.S. to license land surveyors, but by 1930 it was…

In the last issue I mentioned that Walter Marmon as well as George Pradt came to New Mexico to survey with Darling without…

Considering that the Spanish colonizers had more than three centuries to do it, one would assume that the twenty Indian pueblos of New…

Crescit eundo, it grows at it goes, has been the motto of New Mexico since 1851 when the territorial seal was first designated….

Crediting an invention to any particular individual has its pitfalls. Most, if not all inventions are based to some extent on work already…