Mcallen Daily Monitor

Work of Running Traverse Lines
In Two Valley Counties Complete

EDINBURG Mar 12—(AP)—A
total of 385 miles of traverse lines
in Hidalgo and Willacy counties
have been completed by the Val-
ley ranch office of the Texas
Reclamation service, in operation
here since Dec. 1

The engineers are drawing the
traverse lines and establishing more
known points from triangulation
stations of known latitude, long-
itude, and altitude established by
the United States geodetic survey
in 1922. Bridges, road junctions
and landmarks will be located and
given geographic positions.

A topographical map of about
50 square miles from Cameron to
Starr county will be drawn along
the Rio Grande. This section has
never been recorded.

The various small maps of the
Rio Grande Valley's
numerous
water control and improvement
districts will be combined into one
large map with mutual geodetic
points. A complete topographical
map of Cameron county has been
completed.

Field work on the project is ex-
pected to be completed in three
or four weeks.