SYM-Zonia -- SYM-FONIC by Michael C. Goldengate

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…..

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 …

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 …. .

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?

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.]

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 …

“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™
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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
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herself, Ass. Dr. Beckon, hanging out there – figuratively that is, I mean – perhaps with some of the firm members of
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PLAYERS!! The idea is not to be gawking like this, or chasing autographs from a bunch of local celebrities when we
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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 …..

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:

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!!

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.]

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?

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?

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.]

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!!!!

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. !!!

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 …

All of YOU … !!!
YOU ARE NOW LEAVING
C.U. @ S.Y.M.-FONIC !!!!

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