For all you survey trivia fans the systems are messed up, they are run by government why are we surprised? Let's look at Michigan, because it's an example I happen to be familiar with. Seems back in 18 whatever we they decided to survey Michigan's lower peninsula they had the bright idea to use two crews to establish the baseline, one starting in the Detroit area (east working west) and another on the shores of Lake Michigan (west working east). Only problem is when the "met up" south of Lansing they didn't they were about 900' feet apart. One or both lines were not a true east west. This means most sections in Michigan are more or less, in theory they are supposed to be exact and they push the errors northwest. By the grid system their are entire townships (36 square miles) missing, the legal description appears valid but if you look at the maps they disappeared them in the name of correction. A lot of this missing land changes hands in the early fall in various bars in Detroit, Lansing, Grand Rapids, Flint and Kalamazoo as aspiring deer hunters decide to purchase a "hunting 40" up North because they got a deal to good to be true from a fellow they met at the bar. As late as the 1960's and 70's Michigan was still finding land that never really was owned, meaning the state never issued a deed on it since territory days. At that time the state was offering the land to the adjacent land owners 50/50 first offer, if one land owner turned it down 100% to the other. Here in Wisconsin the survey is just as screwed up but the un- issued land is given to the county, were they us it to landlock private parcels and hold the landowners hostage until they buy an easement.
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Today's Featured Article - History of the Nuffield Tractor - by Anthony West. The Nuffield tractor story started in early 1945. The British government still reeling from the effects of the war on the economy, approached the Nuffield organization to see if they would design and build an "ALL NEW" British built wheeled tractor, suitable for both British and world farming.
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