Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-11-10
THE BOUNDARY LINE.
Ofthe Republics ofuexioo and the United
 States.

States.
 Much has been said of late of the resurvey of the International boundary line between the United States and Mexico, and many conjecturcs have been made as to probable changes in the line. It has been stated in tine papers of this territory that the sur Veyors had commenced work and the new line has been variously located as taking in Magdalena, Hermosi.lo, Lower California and even the entire state of Sonora. It is remarkable ! what lack of information has been i shown in the papers and individuals | that have spoken of this matter ot such | immense importance to the two great | Republics As matter of fact, easily ! verified, no money has been appro- 1 priated by congress for the expenses i of such a survey though there Is bill | ! before congress fer that purpose, since 1 l two or three years ago the two govern | ments entered into an agreement to resurvey the international boundary, to rebuild such monuments as had l been destroyed or removed and to l greatly increase the number Of mOnU- ments on the line. In 1884 or possi- bly, in 1883 Lieut.. Thos. W. Synons of the Engineer Corps of the Army went over the line from Fl PasO to the Pacific and reported many nlonu- ments destroyed, several moved from their places and i'll one case house had been built on the site of mOnu
 ment of the stone of the monument itself.
 We understand that the Mexican government about the same time or perhaps later sent 8 secret commis- sion to Nogales to verify the position
 of the monument in south wall of the
 Exchange saloon and they found it to
 be it's true position.
 Any statement as to the lines be-
 ing moved south is the merest non
 sense. The treaties ratified by the
 two governments preclude this be-
 yond all question unless the treaties
 be charged for that purpose and no
 sane man inagines for an instant that
 will be done.
 Article V. of the treaty of Guadalupe Eidalgo dated February2, 184S, says; x X And, ID order to preclude
 all difficulty in tracing upon the ground the limit separating upper and
 Lower California t is agreed that the
 said limit shall consist of $ straight line drawn from the middle of the Rio
 Gila, where 1t unites with the Cobra , do, to a point on the Coast of the Pacific Ocean distant one marine ) league due south of the southermost : point of the port Of San Diego, accord
 ing to the plan of said port made in l the year I782 by Don Juan Pan 1 toja. In order to designate
 the boundary line with due precis-
 ion * the two governments shall
 each appoint a commissioner and a
 surveyor and the result 1 agreed upon by them shall be deemed r q part of this treaty, and shall have 9 the same force as il 1t were inserted
 therein"
 Q Article l. of the treaty of December
 30, 1853 describes the remaining part ' of the line as follows:
 , "The Mexican Republic agrees to >. designate the following as her true
 limits with the United States for the
 future: retaining the same dividing 7 line between the two Californias as al- ready defined and established, accord ing to the 9th article of the treaty Ol Guadalupe Hidalgo, the limits be :, : ttsea he two Repa.l,lies .sasall be q
 opposite theIaostfh of the Rio raAde a as provided in the 5th article iof the n treaty of Guadalupe EIidalgo thence d as defined in the said article, up the g middle of that river to the point where ? the parallel of 3I0 1T" north latitude d crosses the same; thence due west on' T. hundred miles; thence south to th' n parallel of 3lo 90" north latitude
 thence along the said parallel of 3l' g 20" to the 11lth meridian of longitud is west of Greenwich thence in a straigh " line to point on the Colorado rive IS twenty English miles below the juno r. ton of the Colorado and Gila rivers K thence up the middle of the river Col t. orado until it intersects the presen n, line between the United States an to Mexico"
 Is .Nogales is situated on parallel ( r, 2lo 20'' north latitude and the llt fHSneridian of longitude west ot Greer q VTich is atoar eight miles due west (
 Nogales. The entire line was dete h. pined astronimocally and the gentl ..ze1 len who composed the American an
 exican commissions were entirel
 5mpetent to do the work
 It is to be hoped that our conten Re poraries will indulge in no more nol in- sense about the lines going to Magd m leIa of anywhere else except where ais Was measured in 1854 and lS55.-N ig- gales Herald.