ARMELLS CREEK
L. Frieze Ranch
Site # MY - 1
The site is 17.5 miles north of the main turnoff into Colstrip, Montana, or 11.4 miles south of the I-94 exit stop sign, on 315. Go west on the gravel road, crossing the railroad and the first bridge, stopping on the west side of the first cattle guard past the bridge. The owner, L. Frieze, lives north of the site on the first farm to the west of the highway.
This site was originally surveyed by Maxfield and Laudry (University of Montana, 1973, unpublished survey notes, site #25).
Angles determined by a Brunton are followed by a (B), all others were derived from plane table data. Distances determined with a tape are followed by a (T), all others were found using the alidade. The rod is touching the alidade side of the survey point and is centered. Compass compensation is 15.5°. ML refers to Maxfield and Laudry, 1973.
All benchmarks are pieces of rebar about 18 inches long driven flush with the ground and spray painted orange.
The Primary Reference (P.R.) is the wooden corner fence in the fence which runs from the cattle guard streamward. It is one end of a gate.
The Secondary Reference (S.R.) is the first, and only, tree south along the fence from the gate.
BM 2 is at about the same elevation as BM 1, being about 1 meter upstream from the edge of a small (approximately 3 m. wide), shallow gully. BM 3 is almost exactly on a line connecting BM 1 and the lone large tree in approximately a 203° direction from BM 1, being slightly streamward.
BM 1 to BM 3 to BM 5 to tree is not quite a straight line.
See Table 1-1.
Date Surveyed = 23 July 1975.