The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-10-16
DELA WARES NORTHERN ARG
II 10 Now Going to he Located and Marked
for the First Time In Two Centuries.

Thomas +. Bayard and Wayne MacVeagh rs
chairmen respectively for Delaware and Penn
sylvania Of the Joint commission appointed to
adjust the complicated boundaries between
the two States. have put their heads together
and with their fellow commissioners awarded
to Delaware the triangle. TOO acres in area.
over which Delaware has for more than 100
years exercised jurisdiction in spite OF adverse
boundary stones. Much has been written
about this triangle but very little has been
written about another feature OF the disputed
boundary. and chiefly because touching this
portion of the boundary there is very little
knowledge going. Mason and Dlxon's limo.
with which the long disputed triangle is init
matcly connected. dates back only a century
and a quarter. but the first. and until recently
perhaps the only complete survey Of Della:
When William Penn begged in 1882 for a
t tory u the ,. Ds ss" t of Yor lsS gave sDS ffiSSW cartain r0r RE-
Gently acquired territory, on the Delaware.
Tenn original grant had been that eNten;
New astle. and part of his southern boundary
was"A circle drawn at twelve miles distant
to the beginning Of the %fortieth degree OF
north iatiIuden irrec9nsiiable conditions. BY
town d New Castle. with, twelve miles round
] u u u VI ~ vi VIC btIhNhI6
River and Bay as far south as Cape Hen!open.
Existing Held notes OF an old survey show that
aomn, ya xsS I T Tndmns to p isrss Ia at Naw Se csstls
county to run out this are. and that in 1901
theirsnrysY Was completed. They began at
New Castle and ran due north twelve miles
to white oak marked with twelve notches.
rive, and westward far enough to complete
onr-tllird OF II circle.
When an engineer assigned to work under
Mr.. MacNcagh are members set about the task
Of lcenrNeying his curve he met with uney-
autlrntic MARX Of the survey OF ITO remained.
A white onk which hnd 10y, general agreement
nmf no doutt, was the tree to which thc
,M.y",ors OF lani made their measurement
lin, between III" two states had long been L"li
To- b." identical VIII certain farm fences. But
he straight lines. whereas. they should hive
cnrYrl III order to conform to tho are.
year. been il tn" habit of "t r,r,'nrnins
t. tn" ASSESSORS 4 certain lumb"rs Of ncrrsn-
ay'n H,u :" IN rimh in Wnrs Fra hsv u vs ssI'n ,amo n Inns
r.talpinE heir nlirci ,nro TO whichever states
they Ind hitherto counted. themselves as be-
masking - decision 10 disturb AS little AS pos,
sui %yNistins relations. Tho engineer went
drrrrrin lc got the worse wrrchi- dinicuIt'e-.
II" found It necessary to tuiid n lI.i' "i'-"r-
Nhl,o upon one wOotrl nmir"nrn IN
utd"r TO sight the spot from a nsighhprlng tHL.
ana wII"n, alter manifold t%ruuhi"- hi- -uiN,f
I,'ilclir! the Delaware. hn found that th""uh
marx at that end Of the "lI survey i~mil".l'"i
that the rtiius WAS nearer thirteen mll'" tlltl
twelve miles. /, became apparent ina, ne
northern are, II II should conform to 'radi,lpn
aud lrayrinpn undisiurh,d intl"ir citilcnehtI.
must II" Il compound curve made w Of 'arl-
ing. iadii,. ANA this. IN hr""T .ithcr WIN lho
policy -. The commission, IL WlIst II Will hr
There has ircn s"'nS s~ugirise, that me
boundary of county that eventually 'Hranie
Tim Innt,l.ry All IA state. h!lDIlI Hlyn LrtlA un- |
marked for nearly 2On years. "ul II Is not sur.
Irisinc whom the history OF tue county and Of
was ut FIRST a boundary between Peun's ros-
sessions ann those ri tho Duke Of FORK, but
when James CAV wv Castle and the territory
about it to Penn are became u mattsr III
small Importance. since 1t no longer sepa. |