The copper era., 1901-01-10
PROPOSED NEW COUNTY.
A Meeting Will be Held Tonight to
 Appoint Committees.

A meeting Of tax payers and citizen:
 will be held tonight at the Commercial company's building on Chase Creek foi
 the purpose Of appointing committee:
 to prepare statistics, secure signers tC petitions, and to discuss the lines of the new county.
 The following has been suggested a:
 the boundary lines of the proposed new
 county. Uf course there is nothing
 definite as yet in regard to the lines.
 They are subject to change, and per
 haps will be changed before the bill is presented 10 the legislature. The pro-
 posed line includes nearly all of the mining section of the old county, but with the exception of the country around Duncan. it does not include any of the farming lands along the Gila
 river. The old county will be strictly agricultural and the new one a
 mining county. THE ERA presents the line as now proposed that the peo-
 pie may have time to discuss it among themselves, aud offer such suggestions as may seem proper. The columns of THE ERA are open to all for that pur-
 pose. The proposed lines are as fol- ] lows:
 Commencing at a point twelve (12)
 miles south of the 2nd Standard North, Gila and Salt River meridian, on the eastern boundary line of Arizona Ter ritory, being the northeast corner; thence westerly following the southern boundary line of Apache county and the southern boundary line of Navajo county 10 a point where said boundary line intersects the one hundred and
 tenth Q10) degree of longitude, west from Greenwich; thence south follow ing the one hundred ard tenth Ul0) degree of longitude, west from Green wich, to a point where it intersects the southern boundary line of township 3 south, Gila and Salt river meridian; thence east, following southern bound ary line of township 3 south to a point where it intersects the eastern bound- ary line of range 23 east; thence south six (6) miles, following the eastern boundary line of range 23 east to a point where it intersects the southern boundary line of township south; thence east six (6l miles, following the southern boundary line of township south to point where it intersects the eastern boundary line of range 24 east; thence south six (Gl miles, following the eastern boundary line of range q east to point where it intersects the southern boundary line of township , south; thence east six (6) miles, follow ing the southern boundary line of township , south to point where it iEtersects the eastern boundary line of range 25 east; thence south six (6) miles, following the eastern boundary line of range ? east to point where it intersects the southern boundary line of township G south; thence east twelve (l2) miles, following the south ern boundary line of township 6 south to a point where it iuterseets the east ern boundary line of range ? east; thence north six (6) miles, following the eastern boundary line of range ? east to point where 1t intersects the southern boundary line of township 5 south thence east six (6) miles, follow ing the southern boundary line of town ship south to point where it inter- of range 2S east; thence south thirty-siN (36( miles, following the eastern bound- ary line of range 2s east to point where it intersects the southern bound- ary line of township II south, being six (6l miles south of the 2nd standard south, Gila and Salt river meridian, and being the point of intersection with the northern boundary line of COchise county: thence east twenty four (24) miles, following the southern boundary line of township II south, be- ing the northern boundary line of Cochise county. to a point where it intersects the eastern boundary line of range g east, being the eastern bound ary line of Arizona Territory; thence north, following the eastern boundary line of Arizona Territory and the west ern boundary line of New Mexico Ter ritory to a point twelve (12) miles south of the 2nd standard north, Gila and Salt river meridian, being the place of 
 Lee N. Strattcn, who was elected district attorney, came near losing his