"Tom,
Will this exercise prove anything more than Merion buying 3 acres somewhere along Golf House Road during the 7 months Lloyd was the technical bridge?"
Sully:
What I believe this exercise will proves is the only area on the property that exchange and purchase could have taken place is along the extension of Golf House Road somewhere from Ardmore on the south to College on the North. The only way we can know exactly where (although it could've been a complete redelineation up and down the entire length of the road) would be to find one of those topo survey maps the Wilson Committee was using in the winter and spring of 1911 to route and design the course and compare the delineation on that contour survey map to the metes and bounds on the July 21, 1910 deed which is the way the road was built (the actual metes and bounds of Golf House Road are on the July 21, 1911 deed but obviously not on the Dec. 19, 1910 deed). I believe I realized that it was done by a redelineation of Golf House Road and put it on here over a year ago but this excercise I believfe proves it.
"Will it show exactly where?"
Again, not without comparing Golf House Road to one of those contour survey maps they were using in 1911 that had a road delineation on it which was clearly making the last five holes difficult to fit in as Francis said.
"Will it have to have been by breaching the western boundary of the Johnson Farm?"
Not necessarily but it might have in a few small places along Golf House Road. The exchange of land already purchased for land adjoining was just the giving back of as much land along the eastern side of the road that they didn't need for holes as they took on the western side of the road that they did need for holes. The purchase of 3 additional acres was simply 3 more acres on the western side of the road that they need for holes. The entire thing was reflected in the Thompson Resolution to the board on 4/19/1911 and it reflected the fix Francis suggested and got permission from Lloyd for. This can be determined because there were no other boundary adjustments made between Dec. 1910 and July 21, 1911 involving the golf course boundaries. The fact is the metes and bounds on the Dec. 1910 deed are absolutely identical to the July 21 deed from the starting point of the metes and bounds at College Ave until they get to a point in the center line at the corner of the Eaton Place and the middle of Ardmore Ave. (behind the 2nd green). From there you simply take out that entire 23 acre block of the old Johnson farm far down Ardmore Ave to the west and run the metes and bounds on the Juyly 21, 1911 deed straight down Ardmore Ave until you reach a point at the intersection at the middle of Golf House Road and Ardmore Ave. From there the metes and bounds of Golf House Road (on the July 21, 1911 deed) go north to the ending point next to the beginning point on College Ave. And that was the enclosure of the 120.1 acres of the July 21, 1911 deed that was three more acres than MCC agreed to buy even when Lloyd's Dec. 19, 1911 deed was conveyed to him for 161 acres. I believe when all the metes and bounds are measured it will show before the Francis swap there were app. 21 acres on the western side in that basic JW area on Bryan Izatt's post #1044 and when the swap and purchase was approved and reflected in the July 21, 1910 deed there were app. 18 acres in that JW area. So, Merion's property on the eastern side of the road in the top of the "L" increased by three acres from what it had been on the 1911 contour survey maps they were using in 1911.
"Will your contention that this is "The Swap" completely counter the statements made by Richard Francis about the 15th green and 16th tee?"
Not at all. It seems pretty obvious the primary problem creating the difficulty fitting in the last five holes was caused by the fact that the delineation of the road on their contour survey maps was just too narrow to get the 15th green and 16th tee in there the way they are now. What Francis was obviously talking about is the dimensions of the solution in that area. I mean of course it is possible that the road delineation on their contour survey maps just took a dead right angle turn about 150 yards from the middle of today's 15th green and went straight east across the present fairways of #15 and #16 and then took another dead left turn and went up along the present left side of the 16th hole but that doesn't make much sense to me seeing as the "illustrative" Nov. 15, 1910 PROPOSED plan showed a form of a triangle anyway that was just much longer. We've agreed we shouldn't try to measure the "approximate road location" on that Nov. 15, 1910 PROPOSED land plan because it may not have been exactly drawn to scale but the delineation of the proposed road on their 1911 contour survey maps obviously was exacted as it had to enclose the 117 acres MCC agreed to buy.