"A history of the evolution of surveying public lands in Florida and traces the problems associated with any new frontier through the personalities of the major historical figures of the period."--Amazon.

Starting and Developing a Surveying Business shows how surveyors can develop their own successful small business. For surveyors thinking of taking this step, guidance is provided on the pros and cons which will help the right decision to be made, and the key factors which help see the business through its early stages. For surveyors already running their own small business, consideration is given to factors which will help profitability and growth potential.

A middle age couple sells their home in a large city to move to the mountains of Colorado and live mostly in exile while studying the nature of God's extraordinary beauty and unbelievable sculpture of the Master's hands. They had a contract with a large publishing company to write a book. Unfortunately they experienced a transformation of being in an unfamiliar atmosphere of human life. After returning to their own earthly home, they had no recollection of the unusual experience. While living in the mountains, the couple were plagued with aliens. The actual sight of them only happened twice, however they saw space ships and UFO's often. The angry, unwelcome aliens rigged the couples cabin to try and scare them out of their territory and make them leave. This couple had included in their book, the strange and threatening acts that was imposed upon them by the aliens, which made their enemies angry. After enduring these fearful threats for many months, the couple's fished manuscript was stolen out of their camper the night before thet were to deliver it to the publishers. They were broke and had nothing left to live on. An old hermit-type friend whom the couple had met w mountain cabin, died and left them his millions of dollars. Old Jim, who lived in a tent with a dug-out under it, just a short distance from the couples cabin, turned out to be the young man's long lost uncle who was a US spy working for the aliens. The young man gets kidnapped after he received the inheritance, but managed to escape with the help of an old gold prospector. The couple gets to build their million dollar "dream home" in the Cuchara Valley resort. They were never bothered with aliens again.