The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-05-12

true alignment with the old Clark
monuments, set a sandstone, sixty BY
| twelve by ten inches. thirty six inches
In The groun6 for the northwest cor
ner OF the state OF Texas, marked IN
w Cor. Texas. on east. N NJ" on
west; 1859. on south. and 1900, on
north faces"
The east boundary of the Panhandle
of Texas is established by law TO be
! that part Of the one hundredth merid-
| ian of west Longitude from Greenwich,
included between Red river and the
parallel OF sc degrees 80 minutes. This
line was surveyed by Clark, who, In
June, 1860, erected a monument to
mark It. Subsequent surveys. though
inconclusive, make it probable that
the said Clark monument was estab-
lished a little TO the west--say one
thousand feet more or iess--of the
enc hundredth meridian. Hence. Mr.
Baker concludes, the northeast cor
ner of the Panhandle should be locat-
ed on the parallel of 36 degrees 80
minutes. and about one thousand feet
west OF the one hundredth meridian:
thence line should be drawn directly
THE BOUNDARY TWO
south parallel to the ono hundredth
meridian, to a point about fifty miles
south of the starting point; thence
line (about eight miles long) should
be drawn southwark to Red River, in |
tersecting IL at point three thousand
eight hundred feet west Of the one
hundredth meridian to conform TO the I
location Of the monument on the north /
bank of the Red river, as ascertain
de by Professor Pritchett, In 1892 The
103 meridian OF west longitude from
Greenwich was axed by act of con-
gress, 1850, as the western boundary
of the Panhandle OF Texas. As has
5een stated, this was surveyed by
Clark, in 1859. In 1881. Richard o.
Clancy, by independent astronomical
observations, determined the intersec-
ton OF the one hundredth and third
meridian and parallel of SO degrees
30 minutes, and set a new monument to
mark the northwest corner of Texas
Again in 1900. Preston went carefully
over the ground in the vicinity OF the
Clark and CLANCY monuments He
found the corner now locally reeogri..
ed as the northwest corner OF Texas,
near or az the point where Clarks
should be, and he also found
corner. They differ in long
itude by more than two miles, The
Clark corner is. according to Clark, in
longitude l03, One Of them Is surely
wrong, and probably both are, and yet
Clarks monument confirmed by con-
gress, Is the defacto corner. Clark's
was a fairly good one
by a weak method. Chaney's, a weak
determination by strong method. and
the need OF new and strong long1-
tude determination in this vicinity is
obvious.
With regard TO this matter. Mr..
Baker concludes as to the west bound4
lry of the Panhandle Of Texas that. un-
til new and trustworthy determina- ,
ton of the longitude has been made.
the boundary should be shown on the
one hundred and third meridian from
the Canadian river southwark, and on
lhe meridian of 103 degrees 2 minutes I
rom the Canadian northward; and also
that new and accurate determina-
ton OF longitude should be made at an
early day at station in or near Tex
line, and this station should be con-
nected with Chaney's monument with
the KIT corner, and with Clark's mon
uments Is. 16 and II.
Mr.. Baker refers TO a number of 9TH
er surveys made at different times.
among them one by Joseph T. Johns
ton, then a lieutenant colonel.