New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-06-24
OUR NEW SLICE Or MEXICO.

The boundary line between this country and Mexico
provided by the amended Treaty whose contamination
Only awaits the vote of ten millions by the House of
Representatives. is not the least Of the absurdites of
that work Of conglOmerate diplomatic wisdom. As
our readers are aware, the Government of the United
States has set up claim disputed by Mexco,-and
altogether without foundation. have repeatedly
had occasion to show,-to the Meslla Valley, OBJ
long square of land belonging to chihuahua, and
bounded on the south by the parallel of SO 50 North
Latitude The Treaty disposes of this disputed claim
by making the boundary commence the Rio Grande
at sc AZ, five geographical miles below the line
claimed by the United States. but still FIVE miles
above the important town of FL Paso, which thus
mains in Mexico. Starting from the Rio Grande at
80 AZ the line follows that parallel due west hun
dred miles, and then turns at right angles and runs
south q geographical miles to the line Of 81 2O
when il again bends to the west, following that line
till it reaches lie West Longitude from Greenwich
Thence it proceeds in a straight line, running north
west, to point on the Colorado River twenty miles
below its junction with the ella.
Whoever will take the trouble TO mark out this line
ss we have indicated it on map of the United States
will see at glance its great awk%ardness In the
present boundary have for the greater part of the
way natural landmark namely. the course of the
ella, but the new line is wholly arbitrary following
true geographical division. And then, il is neither
straight, curved, angular nor diagonal but all of them
together. without any rhyme reason, except il be
to leave Mexico all the valuable points and to give
tie United States clumsy and nconvenien extent of
barren mountains and worthless sandy plains the val
ley of Mesla alone excepted, which is said to have
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81 AZ to begin the new line, and aiterward come
down again TO 81 30 leaving square projection OF
Mexico 80 miles by lO0 surrounded three sides by
our territory Why not start at 3l' 20, and GO
straight across 10 the Illth meridian If that is the
proper place to turn and give the line norhery inci-
nation' Why not make square work Of it, instead
of going around Robin Hood barn Senators and
diplomats have agreed TO do And them why make the
line strike the Colorado above its mouth Whygo sehr
to the north instead Of striking the Gulf of California
at its head, to secure u harbor where that i'm
portsnt river emptes the waters it has brought down
from so great distance 10 the interior ofour own coun-
try Or why not the line straight across on the
line of 81 90 from the Rio Grande to the Gulf in
GLIDING little Of the Sonora gold region This
would at least be comprehensive, and have some APP
pearaDce Of sense, which this zig-zag up and down
boundary has not. In such case il might be- worth
while TO pay something; but can that be called good
bargain in which pay roundly for this curiousy
cut piece of territory out OF which the two important
points, III Paso and port on the Gull, aud every
thing like mines of gold and silver, have been
cunningly excluded
IL also seems to be somewhat matter Of doubt
whether the new territory will afford the desired
route for Railroad from Texas to the Pacific.
There are those who affirm that Santa Anna has not
only sold Us land worthless for either tliage pls,ur
age or mining but tha, will not be found favorable