PLSO Oregon Surveyor January/February 2019

3 entitled “The Land Surveyors Guide to the Supreme Court of Oregon, Volume One.” I should point out that it is my personal belief that this book should be a part of the library of every practicing professional in this state, if for no other reason than how it affords virtually immediate access to case law in Oregon without having to go through the rather lengthy process of legal research by your own efforts. Anecdotally, I can attest to the value of this book from personal experience with several of the cases Brian has pointed out. While operating my own land surveying firm on the Oregon coast during the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, I had the oppor- tunity to do several boundary surveys in and around the City of Astoria (the old- est U.S. settlement West of the Rockies). You can go back and read about one of my surveys in the April/May 2002 issue of The Oregon Surveyor , (Volume 35, No. 2) From the Editor and a survey by the Clatsop County Sur- veyor in his efforts to restore original claim corners of the John Shively Dona- tion Land Claim (DLC) in the Aug/Sept 2003 issue of The Oregon Surveyor (Vol- ume 31, No. 4). Imagine my satisfaction in reading that my research, complet- ed nearly 30 years ago, had uncovered early Oregon court cases involving John Shively and the boundaries of his DLC and that those self-same cases form in- tegral parts of the case law described in Brian’s book. It would have been nice to have Brian’s book back when I was do- ing the research on those boundaries. Not only does Brian’s book provide in- teresting reading on the development of boundary law in Oregon, but it is also a great read on parts of Oregon history that are important to our profession. Surpris- ingly, early Oregon case law isn’t limited to just the Willamette Valley (although a great deal of early settlement in Oregon happened there). I found his book very interesting by giving context to the lives of some of the prominent figures whose names appear in early Oregon history. Pick up a copy through the PLSO web- site. Your purchase will not only benefit your own practice but proceeds from the sale will go toward the PLSO schol- arship fund, a valuable component of PLSO’s efforts to encourage people to pursue land surveying as a career. You won’t regret it, and you’ll find the book to be a great value.  x Available for purchase through the PLSO website, either digitally or in hard copy: www.plso.org/store