Government surveyors had been busily engaged for some time in laying out the Saskatchewan country in order to keep pace with the rapidly increasing settlement.
Sir John Macdonald admitted, at a later time, that much of the trouble arose "from the lack of conciliation, tact and prudence shown by the surveyors during the summer of 1869.
APRIL 5—At the Easter Sessions, a new assessment of the county bysurveyors was ordered, on which to base the county rate, and £500 placed at the disposal of a committee to obtain it.
The surveyorsappointed by the Admiralty on this occasion being Captain Bethune and Mr. Veitch, C.
Men could be seen loitering around the camp or mingling with the surveyors in the field, eagerly gathering such scraps of information as was given out and hastily departing to add fuel to the already inflamed imagination of the settlers.
Opportunities for getting these letters mailed were few, it was explained, but by sending them to the camp of the surveyorsthey were taken to the distant town and forwarded; and such news as they brought.
Just think, a party of the surveyors were on our land today and have driven stakes showing exactly where the irrigation ditch is to run.
Ida laughed merrily at Jack's description of the manner in which the two surveyors had stumbled along in the dark, but asked if it was not equally hard on him.
Upon their arrival at the windmill they were disappointed to find that the tents were gone; the party of surveyors had left the field.
Norton, who remained until after supper, knowing that Gully was not prepared to furnish beds for the three men, invited the two surveyors to accompany him to his shack, where he would make them as comfortable for the night as he could.
The surveyors Dugan and Stevens were eagerly endeavoring to complete their part of the work, in order to return to their homes in time for the Holiday festivities.
At last the work of the surveyors was finished, and the tents were lowered and packed with their instruments, ready for their return.
The service for the surveyors was promptly performed, and they were enabled to complete their work, while Boone was at liberty to return to his family.
At the end of that time he was requested by Governor Dunmore, of Virginia, to go to the falls of the Ohio, to serve as a guide to a party of surveyors who had been sent there some months before.
Moreover, Talekan has been fixed by native surveyors at a point about 150 miles east of Balkh which fully corresponds in its physical features to the description given of that place above.
I confess that after the regions of Central Afghanistan had been fairly well reconnoitred by the surveyors of the Russo-Afghan Boundary Commission, considerable doubt remained in my mind as to the veracity of Ferrier's statements.
If he and the other surveyorshave come out to help us we may stand a little better chance of getting out of this alive.
If the surveyors make haste they will be able to get back to the settlement.
Only part of the little band of surveyors had been armed when they had started that morning from the settlement for the spring at Fontainebleau.
When daylight came it was manifest in the faces of the surveyors that the terror of the forest was still strong upon them.
The coming of Daniel Boone and his young companion aroused much interest among the band of surveyors whose headquarters were at the Falls of the Ohio.
Our surveyors there are in great peril from the Indians.
The conversation was interrupted by the entrance of the surveyors in a body.
Two of the young surveyors obeyed his word, and with all speed the trio carried the body of their fallen comrade within the shelter of the forest.
He said the operation of it would be to leave it discretionary with the Surveyors to fix the price of the various tracts.
Before he left England, Stayner had the postmaster general's promise that two surveyors would be at once appointed.
He had waited as long as he felt that he dared, but the situation had become so alarming, that he had taken it upon himself to appoint twosurveyors who would act under his directions, until regular appointments could be made.
There were also appointed two travelling surveyors or inspectors in the Canadas, one of whom was stationed at Quebec, and the other at Toronto.
It has been the habit of their opponents to refer to the annoyance of the Hudson's Bay Company Committee in London with Canada for in 1869 sending surveyors to examine the country before the transfer was made.
Cartier and McDougall found out in England that sending in a party of surveyors before the country was transferred was offensive to the Hudson's Bay Company.
While negotiations were going on, the Hudson's Bay Company sent in to the Secretary of State a rather hot complaint that Canadian surveyors and road builders had entered upon their territory to the west of the Lake of the Woods.
He with his followers had stopped the surveyors in their work, and threatened to throw off the approaching tyranny.
This course of the Cox could be traced by the surveyors only by scrambling on foot, or by following out the several extremities of the mountain ranges which abut upon its rocky channel.
Some idea may be formed of the intricate character of the mountain ravines in that neighbourhood from the difficulties experienced by the surveyors in endeavouring to obtain access to Mount Hay.
They came into Oregon by the southern route, guided by Daniel Boone's old compass, the one given him by Dunmore to bring in the surveyors from the Falls of the Ohio seventy-two years before.
Bade him be gone at once to summon in the surveyors at the Falls of the Ohio.
It was the old guide, as large as a saucer, that Lord Dunmore gave Boone when he sent him out to call in the surveyors from the Falls of the Ohio thirteen years before.
From the height of land at the head of Pigeon River westerly to the Rainy Lake the country is understood to be of little value, being described by surveyors and marked on the map as a region of rock and water.
Bach of the laborers was loaded with 56 pounds besides his own baggage and ax, and the engineers and surveyors carried their own baggage and instruments.
In this place it will be proper to state that the lake which was thus reached was ascertained with certainty to be that seen by the surveyors of the joint commission in 1818, and which was by them supposed to be Lake Metis.
When, also, it became necessary to proceed to the investigation of the second point of the discussion, the agents and surveyors of both parties proceeded as a matter of course to the point marked in 1798 as the source of the St. Croix.
This purchase is, however, by the patent extended to the highlands, and the surveyors who laid it out crossed the Walloostook in search of them.
Samuel Titcomb and John Harris, the surveyors employed to survey the above-mentioned stream coming from the northward.
The surveyors had orders to survey the river for the purpose of connecting it with the line of exploration, and the latter was directed to make barometric observations.
The forty-fifth parallel of latitude, as laid out by thesurveyors of the Provinces of Quebec and New York in conformity with the proclamation of 1763, crosses Halls Stream above its junction with the united current of the other two.
A delay of any continuance will be productive of evil, either by enhancing the cost of office work or by rendering it difficult in consequence of the dispersion of the engineers and surveyors by whom the field notes have been taken.
They shall have power to appoint a secretary and to employ such surveyors or other persons as they shall judge necessary.
Crossing the Blue Ridge at Ashby's Gap and fording the bright Shenandoah, the young surveyors made their way towards this wildwood lodge.
It was a charming region in which the young surveyors found themselves after their brief term of rest, a land of lofty forests and broad grassy openings, with the silvery river sparkling through their midst.
The surveyors had their adventures, and no doubt often made the woodland echoes ring with the report of their guns as they brought down partridge or pheasant, or tracked a deer through the brushwood.
As soon as the surveyors and Mr. Bolscho return from their work at the road to Putulang, this work must be taken in hand and the list submitted as soon as possible.
The surveyors are at present at work in the Province of Waddemoraatsche, where they have with them two Mudaliyars, in order to settle small differences which might arise among the inhabitants when their lands are being surveyed.
These surveyors should call at the quarters of every soldier or sailor at a limited hour, to see if they are there or no, and register them at home or absent accordingly; absence to be penal.
That sailors as well as soldiers may not give cause of suspicion, it is fit they should also be quartered after the same nature; and more to enforce it, surveyors of quarters should have rounds allotted them.
He's fussy sometimes and notionate, like the time when the surveyors were staying with us, and Mandy set some dishes on a chair.
He carried a chain for the surveyors and went as guide for parties hunting and fishing in the glades.
The error of the American surveyors as to the acclimatisation of the white race in cold climates has been emphasised as to the tropics and arctics.
Indeed, different surveyors will not agree within wide limits as to the amount of ore reserves in the same mine.
Other surveyors would avoid so excessive an amount, and take but one-third of that amount.
Bulls were sometimes turned loose in the fields in which surveyors were busy, and they had to leave in a hurry.
Surveyors were quite used to meeting with all sorts of abuse, and being faced by angry men, armed with brickbats and pitchforks.
The surveyors of the highways had to see that each person who was liable did his share of the work of the highways, or paid for having it done.
It has been observed by others that it is improbable the French surveyors should have remained for several days upon the Pic de la Pyramide without visiting the other and loftier summit.
The ridge continues to gain height as we come to the south, and culminates in the mountain which the French surveyors have called Sommet de l'Aile Froide.
The granting of lands, which had been interrupted by the war, was again begun by the governor of New Hampshire, Benning Wentworth, and in different parts of the region surveyors were busy running the lines of townships and lots.
Surveyors who undertook to run the lines of New York grants across lands already granted by New Hampshire were compelled to desist.
They meant to get surveyorsand engineers with well-established reputation to back them up.
The surveyors were watched and dogged by night and by day.
The farmers who had driven the surveyors from their fields, now complained of being left on one side; and those who had farms near the station to rent, rented them at a much higher rate than ever before.
They stationed themselves at the field gates and bars with pitch-forks, rakes, shovels, and sticks, and dared the surveyors to come on.
From daylight till night the surveyors were on duty.
And not long after a party of surveyors was seen in the fields near Liverpool.
A mob gradually gathered, whose angry tones and threatening gestures warned the surveyors of a storm brewing over their heads.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "surveyors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
