PLSO The Oregon Surveyor Nov/Dec 2018

13 Professional Land Surveyors of Oregon | www.plso.org 85 ½ miles and the 103rd is very rugged, with considerable juniper timber and is cut by forks of the Owyhee River. These streams all have the same character- istics, being walled in on both sides by perpendicular basaltic rocks rising from 700 to 1000 feet to the plains above and are impassable except at the junction of the “Three Forks”. From the South fork, the country changes into an undulating sage brush and sandy waste, with little grass or water. The boundary measures by chaining 124 miles and 17 chains. Very Respectfully Submitted, Daniel G. Major, US Astronomer & Surveyor.” This particular monument was set on the State line at the 106th mile South of the mouth of the Owyhee River. The Featured Article continues on page 14 T