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Brent, ime, there is no way that a saddle that is perpendicular to the strings will come anywhere close to accurate intonation with a 'normal' set of steel strings.
The bridge should be oriented the way it is....no slant; but the saddle should have a slant placing the bass side farther away from the 12th fret than the treble side. Steel string gutiars that have perpendicular saddles(to the strings) work for slide, but fretting the strings incurs inaccurate intonation.
If you want to know if the bridge slot is somewhere near where it hsould be, measure from the fret-side of the nut to the middle of the 12th fret. Thsi distance shoulud measure to the middle of the slot/saddle in bewteen the G and D strings...roughly.
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