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Eureka Daily Sentinel
Eureka, Eureka County, Nevada
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U.S. Coast Surveyors Captain A. F. Rogers and Mr. John Muir are encamped on a vacant lot below the Consolidated Boarding-house between Buel and Spring streets, conducting a triangulation survey to connect the Atlantic and Pacific coasts along the 39th parallel. They left San Francisco on June 28, having traveled 2,500 miles using Mounts Diablo and St. Helena as base.
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Captain A. F. Rogers and Mr. John Muir, of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, are encamped on the vacant lot below the Consolidated Boarding-house, between Buel and Spring streets. Those gentlemen are traveling with a complete Government outfit of camp equipage and all the instruments necessary for their branch of the service. The object of their survey is to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts by a system of triangulation on the 39th parallel of latitude. They left San Francisco on the 28th of June last, having as the base line of their system the distance between Mounts Diablo and St. Helena, on the Coast Range of California. Since the time of leaving San Francisco they have traveled 2,500 miles, and are now en route for that city.
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Vacant Lot Below The Consolidated Boarding House, Between Buel And Spring Streets; San Francisco; Mounts Diablo And St. Helena, Coast Range Of California
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28th Of June Last
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Captain A. F. Rogers and Mr. John Muir of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey are encamped with full equipment to conduct triangulation connecting Atlantic and Pacific coasts on the 39th parallel, using Mounts Diablo and St. Helena as base line; left San Francisco June 28, traveled 2,500 miles, en route back.