Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1901-07-25
TIE PURCHASE BOUNDED.
The Census Bureau Makes known
the Boundaries of the LOU
isiana Purchase.
THE RESULT OF OFFICIAL RESEARCH.
1t Is Believed the
the Matter Is Now settled anu
the Decision VIII be Accepteu -
the National Worlds Fair eo
mission.

Washington, July a2.-An
inert made by the census bureau "e
lines the boundaries of i Lou iaha
purchase
The announcement is the result OK
car eful study by a comm.ss'"'a Wins
was created for the especia' pu'i'eo
of defining the boundaries Of the 'cf,
aerial acquisitions of IT,, Cn'''1
States.
IL has a direct bearing On the con-
troxs rsy which has recently Deer
iced in st. Louis, and IN nich res
;d.nt Francis, of the st. l. ,ut, Noft's
f:i ~ Co., has asked an opinion from
tie national &C mmission Cor the :atf.
tie commission which considered
the matter included in its menihersni:s
re representatives. OF all Of the depart
n.ents of the government VINO cNh'o
have an interest in any way IN Inc
boundary question, and representa-
tises of those departments IL whicn
there is q wealth of officil. ~infor'na-
tel, on the subject,
In view of the character of the cons
mission, II IL believed that Chairman
Carter, OF the national commission,
will accept it's findings without ques-
ton and transmit them to the st.
Louis Worlds Fair corporation as the
official finding of the United States
government.
The commission is composed of Mr..
Andrew III. Allen, of the department
of state; Mr.. o. H. Tittmann, coast
and gcode.ic survey; Mr.. Harry King,
general land office; Mr.. Henry Gam
nett, geological survey; Mr. Walter F.
Wilcox, census office: Mr.. p. Lee Phil
lips, division of maps and charts in
the library of congress.
The findings of the commission ret
alive to the Louisiana purchase are
summarized as follows:
1. The region between the Mississip-
pi river and Lakes Maurepas and
Pontchartrain to the west and the
Perdido river to the east should not
be assigned either to the Louisiana
purchase or to the Florida purchase,
but marked with a legend indicating
that the title to it between 1903 and
1919 was in dispute.
2. The line between the Mississippi
river and the Lake of the Woods, sep
arating the territory of the United
States prior to 1908 from the Louisi-
ara purchase, should be drawn from
the most northwestern point of the
Lake of the Woods to the nearest
point on the Mississippi river in Lake
Bemidji.
3. The western boundary of the
Louisiana purchase between parallels
40 and AZ degrees north followed the
watershed of the Rocky mountains.
thence it ran east along the parallel
Of AZ degrees north to a point due
Ecrth of the source of the Arkansas
river, and thence south to that source.
f. The northwestern boundary of
Texas as annexed extended up to the
principal stream of the Rio Grande
to it's source, and thence due north to
the parallel of AZ north.
5. The southern boundary of the
Mexican cession of 1848 should be-
Drawn from a point on the Rio Grande'
eight miles north of Paso, instead of
from one about thirty miles further
north, as is the usual practice at pres
ent, west three degrees, and thence
north to the first branch of the ella.
river.