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Surveyors Field Notes for Northern Colorado

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Surveyors Field Notes for Northern Colorado
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These 17 individual books are the personal handwritten surveyor's records of separate Townships in North Eastern Colorado. They are the notes of Deputy Surveyor Adams M. Faringer (his name is spelled differently within these books, some as "Fahringer".) Faringer was hired by the Government via contract to survey parts of north eastern Colorado. He spent at least 13 years surveying the lands subject of these notebooks, through at least 1881. They cover the area of Weld & Morgan counties from Fort Morgan to the north state line. Each section of land contents are described. The topography, grass, livestock, rocks, and towns are all recorded. Shows stage stops, houses, wagon roads, types of grass ("buffalo grass and prickly pear" is a standard entry), cattle, general topography, wagon roads, rocks, quarter corners, etc. According to Doris Monahan in "sterling Settlement", Faringer "was ingenious for his improvisations for corner markers." With rocks in short supply on the open range, Faringer often had to result in using piles of Buffalo bones. The types of corner constructed is discussed in the journals. This group of original survey notes is a priceless record of the land in its infancy before most whiteman intrusion. But this record must have had many more survey books. These do not follow a chronological order. 1868 (1), 1869 (7), 1872 (2), 1874 (2), 1880 (4), 1881 (1).

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State: Colorado,
Date: 1868-1881

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