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SMITH HUBBARD & TICHENOR GOLDENGATE’S for May 19, 2013 S.Y.M.-F.O.N.I.C. WHAT’S INDICATED by VITUS WACKENREUDER’S TOPOGRAPHICAL RENDERING on the 4-SHEET COMPOSITE “TOPOGRAPHICAL MAP of CENTRAL CALIFORNIA and PART of NEVADAfrom J. D. WHITNEY’S CALIFORNIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ? But First…..

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SMITH HUBBARD & TICHENOR GOLDENGATE’S

for May 19, 2013

S.Y.M.-F.O.N.I.C.

WHAT’S INDICATED by VITUS WACKENREUDER’S TOPOGRAPHICAL RENDERING on the 4-SHEET

COMPOSITE “TOPOGRAPHICAL MAP of CENTRAL CALIFORNIA and PART of NEVADA” from J. D. WHITNEY’S CALIFORNIA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ?

But First…..

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From the desk of ….

WOWEE-ZOWEE ! !! !!!

PLAYERS!! Youngstermembers !! The HUGE ISSUE of S.Y.M.-Zonia™ …. that YOU now HOLD at your virtual FINGER-TIPS

-- Yes … I’m speaking of this, the NEW!!

S.Y.M.-F.O.N.I.C. Issue

is SO OUTSIZE … and so…so .. big, no IMPACTFUL!

THIS WEEK! We’re not only kicking off the competition to FIND and DETERMINE the SECRET LOCATION of this

BLOCKBUSTER MEGA-MEGA-EVENT!! … but we’re OPENING the COMPEITION and

EXPANDING ELIGIBILITY to INCLUDE not just You YOUNGSTERMEMBERS !! But also all LOYAL

PLAYERS FAR and WIDE ACROSS THE COUNTRY …

and .. AROUND the GLOBE !!! WowEEEEEEEeeeeee !!!!

How can we do that, you may ask? Why? It’s simple …

PLAYERS: Let me be frank. I’m freaking out. We’re being evicted. . See? And I need something BIG ENOUGH to keep the bulk of you BUSY while we here at D-37 RELOCATE to our new Summer Quarters … !!! That’s Right!!! While not technically an eviction -- because or darling home was never initially approved for human occupancy -- we are nevertheless being moved out!!! YES!!! !! As of now! We’re being forced out here at Payless Self-Storage, corner of California & Scotts Sts., Pacific Heights, San Francisco, etc, etc. YES!!! It’s really happening.. ~!~ I know …. I know … But it was certain to happen sooner or later, along with that insane crackdown on medical dispensaries .. Good grief: we’ve been here for …. Just about a year now!!!! We have rights!!!! A possessory interest !!! This is the ONLY HOME that little Sarah N. Dippity has ever known – and she will be deeply traumatized by the move !!! I am .. so afraid…

“Where will we[“You” – Ed.] go?” .. you ask?

PLAYERS: I’m not quite sure …. Yet !!! But … somewhere in “Central California together with a Part of Nevada,” as represented on the AMAZING cartography of Vitus Wackenreuder -- that constitutes the “clueing” for the UPCOMING First Biennial S.Y.M.-F.O.N.I.C. See below ! ! I’ll figure it out pretty soon, I can tell you that. We’ll be all right!! The family is fine.. … for now. I can handle these little setbacks with the equanimity borne of experience in extreme adversity … and we’ll relocate in time for the upcoming event. Emotionally, I think I can endure, just so long as nothing else come up, you know?? I mean, sometimes you can take a real heavy body-blow, a huge punch to the solar plexus like this… and stay upright, still stagger on, secure in the knowledge that your friends are still with you, still ready to help, still thinking of you. And with that frame of mind, I think that I too, can continue: with Suzie Cue at my side, looking forward to a brighter future for Sarah N. Dippity… As long as nothing else happens. So.. Let’s DO this!! But first …

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From the Mailbag …

Holy Sh&T !!! Good grief .. I placed this order Last Year!!! SARAH!!! I can’t pay this!!! I mean, they look great, I guess … but the address is wrong – and you put the Webmaster’s name on there. And, we’ve just been evicted!!! We’re sort of .. going on the road for a few weeks. Months… LOOK: We’ll have to talk this over. Maybe we can do another swap? The wild and elusive Native American you mention, is probably UNK-Nown. He’s evading the law. I’ve heard from UNK-Nown and he’s on his way down here: I’ve found him … a place -- until the heat’s off. He’s O.K. I think he’s going to become a Paiute. Call me, or have Stephanie call me …. NO: on second thought, I’ll call you … . ….once we’re settled. But first …. .

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IF a WASP BUILT ITS NEST in the “U” BOX of TYPE, HOW WOULD YOU SPELL “WACKENREUDER” -- AND HOW WOULD THAT AFFECT the RECORDED HISTORY

of EXPLORATION on the PACIFIC SLOPE (of Oregon)?

Okay… Let’s get to it…

RECONSTRUCTING the PROFESSIONAL CAREER of VITUS WACKENREUDER … in MARYSVILLE… (California) PRIOR to HIS MEETING with …

J.C.F.

Players -- --

A COMPLETE SET OF Surveying Instruments -- most notably one THEODOLITE – [Look it up! I’m in the middle of something -- Ed.] was offered for sale in about the fourth edition of the Marysville Daily Herald – for August 16, 1850. No asking price: this must have been subject to negotiation. It’s the last item on the last page – almost an after-thought. [See next page – Ed.]

But the advertisement notes “Inquire at the Post Office” – presumably that would be of the Postmaster, R. Cushing. This advertisement ran continually in the Herald for just a couple weeks, until the item was last offered in the August 23 issue of the Herald. As of August 27, 1851 the advertisements ceased PLAYERS!!! We can safely– presume that someone had recently arrived in Marysville, (California) seen the ads, and purchased the valuable equipment.

But…. Who…. ? Or …… ….. Whom?

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Which? What? Why? Where? When? How?

As a good apprentice journalist – and a practicing S.Y.M.-Zonian™ -- whether or not you’re a WASP – those are the questions you need to be asking [about –Ed.]!!! But, as to Wackenreuder, of course, we may never know for sure.

Because…. as discussed Last Week, it’s a documented historical FACT, that the Editor of the Marysville Herald was overly deferential to considerations of the habitat of the Wasp who had moved into the “U”-box of type.. and by exercising his … editorial discretion in this regard, he literally changed the Course of History for Marysville… as if by diverting it into some alternate channel where figures whose names had a number of “U”’s in them, were consequently un-or-under-represented in the press. YES … pushed to the fringes of history. At least during the critical period of late 1850 into 1851 …. And remember:

V. W. has TWO “U”’s’” …..

Here is that THEODOLITE advertisement .. !! It ran from August 16, 1850 at least through August 23, 1850. But, ….PLAYERS! Quite mysteriously, parts of the Herald’s classified advertisements for August 27 and 30, 1850, have been

ripped away !!! See for yourself/ves: http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cdnc So .. we don’t know precisely when the THEODOLITE sold -- but the advertisement was gone by September 3, 1850 ……

And, indeed, it was in the very same issue of the Herald – [September 3, 1850 – Ed.] -- that the Editor noted that a WASP was building its nest in the “U”-box of type … In a certain negative sense, then, we can almost be certain that This Week – from Aug. 27 to Sep.3, 1850 -- marked the arrival of Wackenreuder in Marysville!! I’m offering that as a working hypothesis anyway. To me it seems… seamless…

PLAYERS: Last Week I showed a standard yellowjacket – Wasp, because it was crawling along the windowsill at the Herald !! But isn’t this a paper-building Wasp – or a subterranean one?

EGAD !!! Don’t touch it … ! !! !!!!

Probably it was a mud-dauber -- !!! I mean .. of course!!! Certainly it was. I received scores of e-mails on this: this was all happening in September, 1850 -- a month or two before Vitus Wackenreuder’s ads began running in the Herald -- after he opened his office in the New Orleans Hotel, no address, there in Marysville … That’s mud-daubber season, and his

was explicitly characterized as an adobe dwelling…

PLAYERS: [Wanna see ‘em fight? - Ed.] [That would be so cool. – Ed.]

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V.W.’s first advertisement was taken out in the this issue – the November 1, 1851 issue of the Herald… that leaves TWO MONTHS in which Wackenrueder had opportunity to take Surveying Lessons before he was proficient to undertake solo operations as a professsional surveyor, and accept real clients. Yes: I KNOW!!! That’s FAST!! But surveyors were really in demand at this time. Marysville was a Boom Town! A working hypothesis is that he trained with the Marysville Postmaster, Mr. Cushing, who sold him the surveying equipment: the Theodolite. It was naturally a condition of the sale, that Cushing would offer some training in the use of the equipment. V. W. demanded it.

And so it was presumably with this background, and this advanced level of training, that V.W. eventually met Capt. William Tichenor the following summer, June, 1851, on the San Franciso waterfront, on the wharf – probably Meigg’s Wharf, aka Long Wharf – still under construction at the time, but presumably allowing docking from experienced navigators like Tichenor. V.W. probably came into San Francisco for THEODOLITE replacement parts at Thomas Tennent’s place. And so he had his unit with him. And maybe at the same time, Capt. Tichenor and V.W. met the J.C.F.-like individual, who was attracted to the waterfront on account of word-of-mouth accounts of the events at Battle Rock: the Sea Gull was embargoed for debt – for two weeks, remember ? -- and this allowed time for the all-critical rendezvous that changed the course of Western History….

Who made the introductions? WHO would that burly sea-faring Oregonian possibly know in San Francisco, who would also be acquainted with the former GOVERNOR (of California) & former SENATOR (of California) -- the accomplished Col.. J.C.F.-like individual ? Some key details remain to be worked out.

Players!!!

Some of Wackenreuder’s earliest biographers – let’s face it, we’ll call them biographical theorists, because they relied to such an extent on hypotheticalization based upon non-extant non-evidence regarding V.W.’s professional background – these have presumed that Vitus Wackenrueder was a bit of a … townie … you know. Well, so they called them Marysville; or a “towner” as the better-educated folks on the Rancherias called them: that is, a homebody who preferred to limit his surveying work to indoor & in-studio “drawing-board” work, preferably with his cuffs fastened: drafting proposed plats of municipalities, like those for Port Orford (Oregon) and .. and the Sunnyvale Homesteaders Association (California), and so forth. In the region of Yuba and Plumas Counties (California), Wackenreuder is credited with the old-saying “Well … back to the old drawing board… !!!” This h’oere’vouvre, [French for “corpse”, or “body” of work – Ed.] the argument goes, seems to indicate that Wackenreuder had little idea of the challenges of plein aire surveying in complex or rugged topographies, like mountain landscapes… . And other related situations.

Thus, laboring under this presumption, they have missed impotant key details that are newly conceivable only upon the realization … that a WASP had made its adobe nest in the “U” box of type in the typesetter’s room at the Marysville Herald just shortly before Wackenreuder’s arrival in Marysville …..

IN FACT, as I show below, such presumptions are entirely unwarranted, and indeed are incorrect!!!

WACKENREUDER was an avid outdoorsman, well-acquainted with the high-country, and capable of holding his own among the First Rank of America’s Great “Intrepids” -- the Explorers of the American Frontier: with the likes of Capt. Bonneville, or of Kit Carson, or .. perhaps the greatest of them all …

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“J.C.F.”

PLAYERS: There’s PROOF!!!!!

It’s in the contemporary papers … in the November 4, 1851 Statesman… on page 4 – look it up !!!! It’s in a correspondence from Statesman Special Correspondent J.C.F. [ –Wait .. -- Ed.] whom we now know, is NOT Col. John Charles Fremont – despite the coincidental identity of a tri-partite initial sequence --- namely J.C.F. -- but was rather somebody else, a farmer I think from the Willamette valley with the same J.C.F. –like initials, who appears to have gone along on this Exploratory Expedition into the Interior of Oregon – to find a pass into the Gold Country, where, Players, even to this day, none exists… Who was this extraordinary J.C.F.-like individual who accompanied Vitus Wackenreuder up the ….. river? Who was not John Charles Fremont?

Wait …. wait: What did I just say? V.W. went … where???

V.W. went up the River? Up …. SHIT RIVER???

PLAYERS: Maybe!!! I think there’s proof. Real proof.

YES: BE ADVISED: V. W. was along on this Extra Expedition, -- supposedly up the Coquille River – but, as we now understand, there was considerable uncertainty over the actual NAMES and IDENTITIES of a number of these Oregon Coastal rivers – even among the Indians !!! [So it is said – Ed.] [Please see the THREE SHEETS to the WIND discussions, appearing in recent issues of S.Y.M.-Zonia™ -- Ed.] And the Intrepid V. W. more than proved his mettle when – after suffering a critical injury on this expedition in a crisis, he volunteered, probably even urged the others, to proceed without him – sacrificing himself for the well-being of others and the success of the Expedition!! He volunteered to be left behind, in his INJURED STATE, exposed to the elements, and the possibility of attack by roving bands of hostile Indians – like the Coquilles, or perhaps the Rogue River Indians … or even the SHIT RIVERS – lead by Chief Chalnee, or perhaps Chief Saquame … YES! There’s a letter from Ass. Dr. Beckon – that I didn’t have room to run !!!!

Wackenreuder was there …. SEE? Believe!!!!

PLAYERS – !!!! OKAY: It says “Wackenweder” – but you KNOW it’s got to be him … Anyway …

I must interrupt this discussion now for a S.Y.M.-Zonia™ business matter! Because This Week we’re ROLLING OUT...

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PLAYERS!!!

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For a limited time – I’m authorized to offer you these S.Y.M.-Coins™ at a one-to-one value!!!

Real coins like this first issue , 1816 A.D., Coronet Liberty Cent - shown here -- might cost you as much as $50, $60 or even $90 -- if you were to buy a real coin like this, from a neighborhood coin-shop!! But, if you act THIS WEEK we can make SYM-COINS™ AVAIALABLE at PAR VALUE – with a couple exceptions:

PREMIUM INCREASE -- 1849 CORONET CENT

Players – DUE TO HIGH DEMAND – S.Y.M.-COINS™ bearing the date 1849 are ALREADY in scare supply, as a wide array of Youngstermembers and Players have simultaneously come up with the Big Idea of “trading up” during the boom market of the California Gold Rush!!! The Big Idea, being to buy cheap mining gear, and move quickly to STAKE A CLAIM somewhere up the Sacramento River, then to STRIKE IT RICH, increase your net worth MANY multiples, and use the newfound mineral wealth, to replenish your stock of S.Y.M.-COINS™ -- by as many as tenfold !!!

YES!! This is a great idea, but … Guess What?? Yes: Everyone’s doing it. Consequently we’ve had to increase our premiums on these sought-after S.Y.M.-COINS™ . But prices are subject to change !!! PLAYERS: – please check out the latest listings at http://www.sym-zonia.com !!!!

PREMIUM INCREASE -- 1851 “S.F.” CORONET CENT

Players – DUE TO HIGH DEMAND -- S.Y.M.-COINS™ bearing the date 1851 and the coveted San Francisco (S.F.) mintmark, are ALREADY in scarce supply, as Youngstermembers and Players have snapped them up!!!! Because we are able to track the usage of S.Y.M.-COINS™,1

http://www.sym-zonia.com

I am able to tell you that they are being invested – as we expected -- in a frustrating effort to access various rivers along the Pacific Coast of Oregon, via shallow draft steamers. However, as at this time, although the U.S.C.S. is busily compiling the latest navigational data, nevertheless, the precise latitude and longitude of these rivers has not – evidently – been accurately charted, and so a number of vessels have run aground or been lost. There have also been many voyages to Astoria (Oregon) to see Desdemona Sands, and the old Custom House –but here again, unfortunately, even more vessels have wrecked on the bar at the Mouth of the Columbia.. We expected that …. And we’ve had to increase the premiums on these S.Y.M.-COINS™ !!! But prices are subject to change !!! PLAYERS: – once again -- please check out the latest listings at !!!!

What we did not expect was the number of voyages that would go direct to Port Orford (Oregon) – nor that Players would be so frequently pony-trekking down the treacherous coast, to locate that disreputable watering hole, Half-Breed-House-Under-Humbug, or be paying such long visits to the [Clothing optional – Ed.] Humbug Mountain Hot Springs … overstayig their reservations presumably, I guess, in hopes of catching a sneek-peak, or glimpse, of Titular Leader herself, Ass. Dr. Beckon, hanging out there – figuratively that is, I mean – perhaps with some of the firm members of Smith Hubbard & Tichenor, LLP – or SH&T, LLP, for short. I mean … Really!!!!!

PLAYERS!! The idea is not to be gawking like this, or chasing autographs from a bunch of local celebrities when we have set up so many real historical adventures for you to explore!!! Consider yourself/ves advised: for if you conduct yourselves/f in such a fashion with S.Y.M.-COINS™ -- which are merely a form of virtual currency – then what -- I ask you -- will you do with the real thing? I mean, how can we trust you … later … When you bring your real money – YES!!!

BRING REAL MONEY !!!! to… to the ….. S.Y.M.-F.O.N.I.C. !!!! 1 Generically!! Just generically: All your individualized personal information as to your use of S.Y.M.-COINS™ remains entirely confidential !! PLAYERS: We respect your privacy!!! We only compile data-aggregates, while individual data as to where YOU spend your S.Y.M.-COINS™ is stripped from your account at the end of each month !! PLAYERS: Please see the S.Y.M.-COIN™ User Agreement posted online at http://www.sym-zonia.com -- Ed.]

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YOU ARE NOW ENTERING

WHAT’S INDICATED by VITUS WACKENREUDER’S TOPOGRAPHICAL

RENDERING on the 4-SHEET COMPOSITE “TOPOGRAPHICAL MAP of CENTRAL CALIFORNIA and PART of NEVADA” from J. D. WHITNEY’S CALIFORNIA

GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ?

Announcing … !!! …the

YOUNGSTERMEMBERS !!! PLAYERS!!!

LET VITUS WACKENREUDER BE YOUR GUIDE !! To …..

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The FIRST Bi-Annual …..

Stephanie’s Youngster Membership ….

Fun Orienteering Nature Investigation Camp !!!

or …..

FIRST-EVER CLUB CAMP !! SPECIAL INVITATION

The First Ever S.Y.M.-F.O.N.I.C. is OPEN to the YOUNGSTERMEMBERSHIP, all PLAYERS and ..EVERYONE!!

CAN YOU FIND YOUR WAY THERE? WELL, HERE’S HOW!!!! PAY CLOSE ATTENTION:

Because ….

SECTION I SECTION II

…. while MUCH is Shown …

.... only ONE place …

…. is INDICATED!!

[I think !! – Ed.] SECTION III SECTION IV

WHERE IS IT? The WACKENREDER/WHITNEY Composite Map consists of 4 separate sheets – numbered for convenience, I-IV, as shown above -- and the separate sheets can be lined up and matched along their edges, as shown here. PLAYERS: We’re using Wackenreuder’s Masterpiece as the KEY to the location of this first ever bienniel S.Y.M.-F.O.N.I.C.!!

PLAYERS -- You can find each of the four separate sheet – and the whole Composite Map as well -- online [ Search “Wackenreuder Composite” – Ed.] or just go straight over to the Calfiornia Digital Public Library – at http://dp.la/search?&partner[]=David+Rumsey&place[]=Sierra+Nevada where you can DOWNLOAD them for careful scrutinizationing in order to find thereupon …. the CAREFULLY ENCODED LOCATION of this Major Upcoming Event !! BUT – PLAYERS … I THINK … YOU’RE GOING TO NEED SOME HELP !!

Here at S.Y.M.-Zonia™, we’ve prepared these HELPFUL HINTS to HELP you INTEPREPRET the WACKENREUDER and GUIDE you to the BIG EVENT:

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1. CHECK ALONG THE SEAMS … !!!

PLAYERS!!!! Who can forget Dromgoole’s yeoman’s efforts to create a semblance of normalcy in the summer of 2011, by plunging into the thick of the Western Mining History, with a traditional P.Y.M.™ Puzzler Golden Summer for the Youngstermembership !!! During his struggling interim tenure in 2011, this was pretty remarkable, and completely un-anticipated accomplishment for a substitute Editor, especially following the disappearance and sudden

“dispatching” of Elmendorf!!! Woweee!!! Back then, this demonstration of competence, left us all almost speechless: he had our total confidence!!! [ And NO-ONE knew, and few would have suspected, that he was already [(probably – but who could really know for sure?) – Ed.] plotting the murder of P.!!! Which he carried out, finally, here in San Francisco!!! – Ed.]

But the veils were suddenly ripped away precisely over Dromgoole’s fraudulent clueing of the 6th Biennial P.Y.M.G.Y.C.P. @ Ke/irb(e)y(vill(e)) -- the objective being to determine WHICH of three or .. even FOUR!! Totally Alternative Ke/irb(e)y(vill(e))’s -- including extras mysteriously appearing along the SEAMS – was the REAL location of our 6th P.Y.M.G.C.P. [Pierre’s Youngster Membership Grand Camp Proceedings ! – Ed.] See, e,g., the Seismology Special Golden Summer Puzzler No.11, Kerbyville …. Where Are You?[(August 28, 2011) – Ed.]

Well – let’s hope you saved some of those Back-Issues, Players : because they could be really Golden THIS Summer!!! YES: a handful of them could … really come in handy as you work to solve The Wackenreuder Composite in order to find the Secret Location of the First Biennial S.Y.M.-F.O.N.I.C. -- @

_______________ [?]!!!! But -- What do I mean?? Well, Players: Let’s LOOK:

With a composite map like the Wackenreuder/Whitney -- in which four (4) separate sheets have to be lined up and matched along four separate seams, you should have reference to Dromgoole’s examination along the entire length of the seams where sheets of Lloyd’s Map of the United States were matched – more or less -- in the aforesaid P.Y.M. ™ Golden Summer Puzzler !! Remember?

Right: they didn’t EXACTLY match up along the seams!!!

But, upon closer more scrutinorious examination revealed hidden details, such as extra KERBYVILLES and KERBYS …

WELL … Guess what!!!! ? ? ? ?! !

Right: Just checking the seams along the 4 sheets of the Wackenreuder /Whitney should be enough to keep you busy for an afternoon!! What matches? What’s missing? What’s continued and what’s DIS-continued? And are there any extra Kerbeyvilles [Speaking metaphorically of course – Ed.] And what about “Forest Home” ??

Are there any other “seam” issues – such as “unseen seams” -- in areas where the map only seems to be seamless? YES!!! There are!! [Or is !!! – Ed.]

PLAYERS: Study this NOTE in the text to the 4-QUARTERS Map, to find details of seams that don’t seem to be seams!! Conversely, be watching out for seeming seams, that are in fact …. NOTt!!

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2. PAY SPECIAL ATTENTION TO THE NAMES AND LOCATION OF MOUNTAIN RANGES … !!

Given Wackenreuder’s suspected preference for “townie” work and proven aptitude for plats on the flatlands, and along the beaches – as in his early efforts at Port Orford (Oregon) [See, for instance, the SEA-CHANGE Issue from January 27, 2013], Sunny Valley Homestead Association, etc. etc., his proficiency for high altitude survey work has sometimes come under fire. HOWEVER, as we saw from the Oregon Statesman December 5, 1851 [See above, p. _ -- Ed.] – he was no tenderfoot! [Not at least, until after he sprained his ‘ancle. ’ – Ed.] YES:

V.W. also knew how to get around in the hill-country….

NEVERTHELESS!!! Even for an experienced Mountain Ranger like Wackenreuder -- a companion and fellow-traveler of Intrepids like J.C.F. -- the Sierra Nevada are a highly complex, deeply-chasmed range – or, as they used to say on the old maps “Area Unfit for Human Habitation” -- and not to be underestimated. And, the California Coast range likewise !!! SO, it’s a good thing V.W. was working with a TEAM – like the Josiah Whitney team of the California Geological Survey – and it’s a good thing they had him along too!!!

With that in mind, PLAYERS, I recommend that you CAREFULLY REIEW pretty much every square centimeter of the Mountain ranges shown on the 4-QUARTERS map – for, just as NO-ONE even knew of – or at least remembered -- the existence of the lost mountain range, The Pillars of Atlas, until Dromgoole lay this bombshell on us all, in his debut P.Y.M. ™ Puzzler, Can YOU Identify the Pillars of Atlas? [ May 8, 2011 – Ed.] [Wowee!! Over TWO years ago!! – Ed.] so too, I guarantee it; there’s much to be learnt about the Sierra Range, the California Coastal Mountains, and their mysterious GEOLOGICAL CONVERGENCE among the Siskiyikiyous!!! Why is there no topography on Sheet I?

For further reading, see P.Y.M.™ Gold Summer Puzzler No. 9, What’s the Secret of “The Secret of the Sierra Ravine”? [August 14, 2011 – Ed.] Available wherever P.Y.M ™ Puzzler back issues are sold. See No. 4, below.

3. MAKE SURE THE RIVERS ORIGINATE AT THEIR ACTUAL SOURCES !

As a corollary to the principal we have just been discussing, be certain to check the river-courses, and track each one to its correct SOURCE !!! Yes: remember the reciprocal, almost symbiotic interdependent relationship between mountain ranges, and … their WATERSHEDS!!!

For instance, many earlier cartographers – out of ignorance, but working on what they supposed was a justifiable presumption – mistakenly noted down the SOURCE of the South Fork of the Middle Fork of the American River, as being no less than LAKE TAHOE, formerly, Lake Bigler, formerly Mountain Lake!! The South Fork of the Middle Fork of the American river gets up there so, so, so…. very close to the southwest rim of Lake Tahoe, that … well, heck!! Just draw the line up to Tahoe: call it good!!!

Little did they suspect that the Truckee River on the opposite and NE flank of this huge Alpine lake, did a little squiggly doo-hickey fish-hook thing whereby it -- as is often said – zigged where it should have zagged – and ended up being almost the sole and exclusive drainage for Lake Tahoe. See, e.g., the P.Y.M. Golden Summer Puzzler No. 12, What is the Source of the South Fork of the Middle Fork of the American River? [September 4, 2011 – Ed.]

PLAYERS: Is there anything FUNNY about Wackenreuder’s watersheds [I mean, besides when you say it … five times fast – Ed.] ? For further reading on Watersheds, let me recommend Last Year’s sentimental favorite, the well-received WATERSHED MOMENT S.Y.M.-Zonia™, “Who Was the Perpetrator of the Perplexing Plats of the Umpqua River Watershed….?” [ August 19, 2012 – Ed.]

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4. DOUBLECHECK ALL MINING CLAIMS, BOOM TOWNS AND MINING DISTRICTS !!!

With a map with such vast coverage across the Sierras, and including the California Mother Lode, and placer mining districts almost too many too number, and thousands upon thousands of individual claims—as well as, in Nevada, the Comstock Lode …. The Lost Hardin Silver Mine, etc. etc., … well, there’s plenty on the Wackenreuder to review ---- or … is there?

Fact is, for a GEOLOGICAL map there’s precious little geology shown on the Wackenreuder. I found Copperopolis (California) – but where’s

Mineral King (California) ??

Players -- my own personal favorite California mining town remains Volcanoeville (California) up the Middle Fork of

the American River near Georgetown!!! Whjich Dromgoole introduced in that Golden Summer Puzzler No. 1 [(June 26, 2011) – Ed.] It’s representd here too – And Downieville (California) from Golden Summer Puzzler No. 2 [The WAGJIS Issue !! (July 2, 2011) – Ed.]…

But WHERE was the Secret Sierra Ravine …? Was it possibly “Secret Ravine” shown on Sheet I?

No…!!! Henry Watson, and his son Guy, and their hired-hand Fiery Ned, were “off the charts” in the land of Silver-Voice the Modoc Princess!!! Players: we tracked the REAL Secrete Ravine probably in Modoc County (California) !!! [See Golden Summer Puzzler No. 9 (Aug 14, 2011) – Ed.]

5. DISCRIMINATE REAL TOWNS, FROM MERE PLANNED … OR GHOST TOWNS

Wackenreuder has included scores of towns on the 4-QUARRTERS map -- but its not certain that every single one of those towns was actually developed as planned, or, indeed whether they were actually planned at all.

In order to better interpret your Wackenreuder, you will want to compare a number of towns as indicated on the 4-QUARTERS with a few conventional maps of the area. PLAYERS!! Start with a small sector, and move out from there !!!

The “Puckerville Seam”…

For instance – looking back at the seamly city of Forest Home (California) – east of Sepastopol: it is shown on Sheet III, but is nowhere to be seen on Sheet I. Why? Nearby “Pokerville” is oddly rendered as the … seamly… city of Puckerville !!! Hmmmmm . I think we’ve got something!! PLAYERS!! I think it’s a CLUE!!!! Refer back to No. 1!! We’ll call this seam between Sheets I and III … the “Puckerville Seam”…. Make a note of it.

Another for instance -- Wackenreuder has Castoria (California) marked a few miles -- about 7 I think – south of Stockton: but the town of Castoria died

an early death, and by 1870’s when the C.G.S. surveys were run, there weren’t nothing there!!! And yet … there it is !!! And rather prominently so!!! But … why?

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6. PAY ESPECIALLY CLOSE ATTENTION TO UNCHARTED TERRITORY…. !!

O.K. – This is important – but tricky. I MYSELF spent quite some time trying to work up the HIDDEN VALLEY S.Y.M.-Zonia™ -- formerly the INCOGNITO Issue -- with a poor result. You, Players, never ever saw that issue because describing what has never been seen takes some doing: and so, the HIDDEN VALLEY/INGONITO Issue, remains to this day… a purely CONCEPTUAL issue, about the representation of the unrepresented landscape, and how it first takes shape in the MIND of the first surveyor, who first views its features. IN other words, how do we get from “TERRA INCOGNITO” – to the moment of conception, aka the pure .. “NEATO!”

WACKENREUDER/WHITNEY in their IV QUARTERS maps, did what they could to achieve total coverage… but there is considerable UNCHARTED TERRITORY, especially on Sheet I, but also on sheet II, for instance. And I wouldn’t rule it out for some of the others !!

But on Sheet I for instance, we can see a huge HOLE in the neighborhood of the Sierra foothills, to the northwest of, say TEHEMA on the Sacramento River !!! due west of Red Bluffs (California). Old-timers, from as far back as say, early 2011, may remember our persistent investigation of this precise area, arising, originally, from the T 24 N. R. 2. W.,W.M. [Willamette Meridian – Ed.] map attributed by Elmendorf, to Charles S. Frailey, of the General Land Office – aka , the G.L.O. [This association making Frailey himself, Edgar Allen Poe’s elusive antagonist, recognizable as the long-sought figure, The G.L.O.-Worm – Ed.]

This matter was eventually resolved, when I, last year, exposed as the solution, a parallelism in the cartography, which proved that what was really indicated by T 24 N R. 2 W., W.M. was in fact T. 24 N. R 2. W. M.D.M. – Mount Diablo Meridian – precisely HERE, in the area Northeast of Tehama (California), and the region of Peter Lassen’s rancho. This last bit of work was covered in the SMOKE SIGNALS issue !!!! [August 26, 2012 – Ed.]

[I need to run the Solution to this one!!! – Ed.]

Indeed, the cartography shown on the cover of the SMOKE SIGNLAS Issue – where the PONDEROSA FIRE broke out last August, would fit perfectly into this VOID – this TERRA INCOGNITO – as displayed/not displayed on SHEET I of the Wackenrueder/Whitney map. Very mysterious indeed!!! But there are other areas of Terra Incognito on the Wackenrueder, that you’ll be wanting to look into – in particular, let me call your attention to the obvious GAPING HOLE in Wackenreuder’s mapping in the upper left-hand corner of SHEET I

It’s completely incomplete ... !!!

PLAYERS: Is there some sort of mysterious INTERFACE between the work of Wackenreuder – a comparative newcomer -- and mysterious encryptions of Charles S. Frailey, Masonic Mastermind at the General Land Office?? Otherwise known as ….. ….. the G.L.O.-Worm?

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7. DON’T FORGET TO LOOK FOR MISSING, AMBULATORY OR EVANESCENT COUNTIES !!!

In last year’s planned GUMPTION Issue of S.Y.M.-Zonia™ -- didn’t actually run, but, rather, was absorbed by – or, better, was sucked into -- the SMOKE SIGNALS Issue [That was August, 26 2012! See above -- Ed.]. So, it was there, that we raised for the first time, the history of mysterious Bohemia County (Oregon) and it’s designated county seat of Drain (Oregon). The deep structure of Bohemia County, and the Drain Vortex, was finally revealed in the followup DRAIN Issue, of Sept. 2, 2012. While Bohemia County is – of course -- a uniquely Oregonian county

PLAYERS – I’m not saying that there IS anything comparable to Bohemia County on this C.G.S. map, but there’s something’s UP with the county boundaries themselves on our 4-part Wackenreuder. That’s clear: Parts I and II have none – the county boundaries were not even lithographed: the county boundaries have not been marked anywhere. Meanwhile on Parts III and IV the counties are … fully delineated – and not only lithographed but hand tinted. Or … or are they? Are the county boundaries accurate, if or where they are not shown? Do they indicate anything … if they are not there? PLAYERS!!!! Refer to the TERRA COGNITO discussion!!! What’s the operative function here? RIGHT! Extrapolation may be in order !!! Refer to the map – for instance, see Sheet IV. Got it? Good!!!!

SPECIAL NOTE: Players -- observe that there are NO counties marked anywhere in Nevada. No counties are shown. Are any indicated?

8. “X” MARKS THE SPOT !!

Well – In fact, this is the cardinal rule of treasure-map reading!!! And very closely related to No. 1, above!!

But let’s just note in passing, that when four equally sized separate square sheets of cartographical paper are arranged in such a way, that they form a larger, square, COMPOSITE sheet of cartography – and such is the case with the 4-QUARTERS MAP resulting from the Wackenreuder/Whitney Expedition -- that they meet in a “FOUR CORNERS” context, which is comparable to an “X” – potentially one that “MARKS the SPOT” that Wackenreuder was intending to indicate… Here, the center falls EXACTLY on the Mokelumne river, which doubles as the boundary – the county line -- between Calaveras and Amador Counties !!!! Now, refer back to No. 7 just above …

AHAH!!!! Players!!! The “Puckerville Seam” also leads directly to this point !!! [See Nos. 1 and 5, above – Ed.]

PLAYERS: Knowing as we do know, that the Puckerville Seam terminates at the “X” … on the Mokelumne River .. well…

I’d now want to follow that very river to its source [ See No. 3 above, on sourcing your rivers!! – Ed.] or else follow that line to its terminus [See No. 7 above, and No. 9 – next -- on County Corners —Ed.] -- if I were you!!! Here, the corner is not shown – but it seems to be indicated ….. Or else, the target is the headwaters of the Mokelumne ….

You’ll need to refer to some other maps… !!!

[ Am I giving you too much help…?? -- Ed.]

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9. GET TO KNOW YOUR COUNTY CORNERS !!!

This brings us immediately to the related matter of County Corners.

Players – No!! Not your County CORONER!!! I’m not talking about some elusive, multi-tasking highly-trained but under-paid and un-recognized public professional, like Vestal Coffin, the County Coroner of Curry County (Oregon) !! I mean the corners: like the strange corners of Umpqua County, and Bohemia County (Oregon) . See, for instance, the SH&T-FIRE and AFTER-G.L.O. Issue [(November 11, 2012)—Ed.].

On the Wackenreuder, you can extrapolate the county lines to their corner, as I described in No. 7 above…. OR …. you might start with these corners: Four counties – Merced, Mariposa, Toulumne and Stanislaus – meet and share a common corner … that is, after some rather extraordinary jogs, between Mariposa and Toulumne Counties. Well, of course, that’s interesting but not remarkable in itself.

HOWEVER, on the Wackenreuder, this same FOUR-CORNERS point, also falls precisely on the seam between SHEET III and SHEET IV -- illustrated here which suggests to ME, Players, a representation that is surely intentional, and

not an accident …It registers an extra “ping” precisely because the corners meet on the seam – which we examined in No. 1. Almost as if there was an alternative Central Point – or center –being indicated. But this brings us to the next Helpful Hint …

10. DON’T NEGLECT ROTATION VIS-À-VIS MAGNETIC DECLINATION

PLAYERS .. By now you know enough to approach Wackenreuder with a dynamic attitude which may require you to make dynamical adjustments In order to effectively engage and WORK WITH what looks like a static sheet of paper with squiggly lines all over it …

Of course, the first dynamic is always one of re-orienting a

Wackenreuder according to the deviation of magnetic north from TRUE NORTH .. that is, bearing in mind at all times that Wackenreuder was working with a used THEODOLITE, and had only about 2 months training under Postmaster Cushing before he started developing

his own rather idiosyncratic methods. Follow the so-called “Puckerville Seam” eastward, to the center of the

map … then….

We recommend a “standard” rotation, in the range of between 19ºand 22º of arc … at least for starters. See the

POLE SHIFT Issue [(July 18, 2012) and shown at left – Ed.] for starters. However, if nothing interesting turns up at that

“resolution” you can go online to the U.S.G.S. website and download the appropriate topographical Quad map for this point on the Mokelumne River, between Amador and Calaveras County (California) to get the precise magnetic deviation for this location. OR … !!! For an alternative Center Point, try using the Four County Corners described in No. 8 above !!!! Try that!!! GOOD LUCK!!!!

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11. ON THE TRAIL OF PYGMALIEN

PLAYERS – I ALMOST FORGOT!! I’m already over-extended!! But I think It’s important to point out, just how much territory of the Wackenreuder/Whitney “4-QUARTERS” map covers territory that was “stomping grounds” for the PYGMALIEN figure/creature/entity … I mean, Virignia City, Gold Hill, Washoe City, TAHOE, the Truckee river!!! etc, etc. Heck!! Players: don’t let us forget Calaveras County !!! PYGMALIEN was all over that landscape!!! Read Roughing It, by “Mark Twain” – his nom de plume!!.. That is, I mean to say, PYGMALEIN’s: the monster that resulted when the psychologically derivative creation – the Artifice “Mr. Twain” -- turned on his creator, the humble, but psychologically disturbed Mr. Samuel Langhorn Clemens, and devoured him WHOLE … etc. See the P.O.E. Issue [(Dec. 2. 2012)—Ed.] So… Wackenreuder may have been indicating something about this guy too … PYGMALIEN !!!

At any rate – that’s about all the advice I have !!! But, PLAYERS!!!

We know that Vitus Wackenreuder was highly trained into the surveying profession at Marysville (California) – and that this was probably by the Marysville Postmaster, R. Cushing, whose old surveying equipment, it appears likely that Wackenreuder purchased, along with a companion agreement, that he could get some hands-on lessons in its proper use… All this, of course, occurring long before he ever encountered Capt. Tichenor or J.C.F., or some J.C.F.-like individual in San Francisco (California), and so before he was ever hired to plat the new city of Port Orford (Oregon) !! [ Get these taken care of – Ed.] We also now know … that Wackenreuder was in the Exploratory party that ventured up the SO-CALLED “Coquille” River --during the month of October, 1851 – as reported in the article of the Statesman, from December 5, 1851 , which I printed above!!! And yet we ALL have reason to doubt whether that “Coquille” River in 1851, is in fact the same river we now know as the Coquille!!! It could have been the Saquame/Saquamee/Chalnee/Shix aka SHIT River !!! … All of them:. alternative names for the same river – and the Coquille is actually the Nescutt…. Anyway.

It is with this wide-ranging background and proven of professional expertise that Vitus WACKENREUDER was retained by DR. Josiah Whitney, to execute the topographical surveys on the California Geological Survey in 1865 -- AND SO HE DID … bringing to the job a unique skill set, a steady hand and the Marysville Postmaster’s used

THEODOLITE ….

And so, well… if it’s good enough for Dr. Whitney, it’s more than-good-enough for me!!!

So ….it’s settled: SEPTEMBER 7-10, 2013 ….. at the S.Y.M.-F.O.N.I.C. !!!

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LET VITUS WACKENREUDER BE YOUR GUIDE !!!

Oh heck – … I forgot to tell you about the Volcanoes ….

PLAYERS: We all are aware – as are you – of the vicisisititudes of life that often thrust/drive/impel/etc. us around from circumstance to circumstance, from place to place, self-storage unit to self-storage unit, etc., and now to go … ON THE ROAD!!!! This …

ORDER TO VACATE

w/ D-37 marked upon its face, fastened to our roll-top door with transparent packing tape – along with a Service of Process in a criminal case, People of California vs. Richard C. Birdman, Michael C. Goldengate, Choom-Lord, et al., Case No. CC-13-0983479-Af, is like a ROADSIGN directing us to the future!!!! Meanwhile, next door, the

Dispensary has been shut-down, and the door sealed with yellow crime-scene tape… I guess, really, when you come

right down to it, there’s very little left for us here … in San Francisco.

I guess … it’s time for the Goldengates to be moving on too!!!

So… PLAYERS!!!!

We’re heading out too!!! This Week, even, as of TODAY!!!

We’re hitting the road in our little ¼ ton TOYOTA pick-up -- Right: the red one. Footloose and wild!! Inquisitive as ever!! Only this time, we’re on the road and … WE’RE IN CHARGE !!

Me, Suzy Cue, and little Sarah N. Dippity –

who’ll soon be a whole year old!!!

We’re off to explore Central California and Part of Nevada… w/ the Wackenreuder/Whitney California Geological Survey map

as our guide ….

We’ll be Play-Testing it -- Proof-Checking it -- examining all its features -- as I tried to identify a few of them, above – [--Ed.] exploring, not so much what’s shown, but what’s INDICATED !!! in order to make sure everything’s ready for YOU, Players !!! and for YOU!!!

YOUNGSTERMEMBERS !!!

Probably somewhere up in the High, High Sierras – We’ll be camping way, way back in there … wherever WACKENREUDER went, wherever HE indicated …..

That’s where we’ll be seeing …

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All of YOU … !!!

YOU ARE NOW LEAVING

C.U. @ S.Y.M.-FONIC !!!!