Bisbee daily review., 1906-07-03
United States and Mexican Boundary Commissioners
 There to Investigate,
BARLOW COMMISSION
 DID NOT SETTLE IT.
General Anson Mills States
 That He Does Not Under stand Exact Nature of QueS- tions That Must Be Settled,

l To investigate a boundary dispute existing at Naoo, on which they will
 make a report to their governments ! General Anson Mills, United States boundary commissioner, and Senor
 Puga, acting in the same capacity for ,the Mexican government, passed through Osborn yesterday on their way from Fl Paso, where they met, to
 Naco.
 Recently some questions arose over the exact location of the boundary line
 that forms the dividing line between
 Naco, Arizona. and Naco, Sonora. It is to look this matter up and report that these two commissioners went to Naco yesterday.
 q do not know just what the ques- l tion will be which we are called upon to decide" said General Mills, at Os-
 born, yesterday. We go to re-estab- 1 fish the boundary line which was fixed by the Barlow commission ten or twelve years ago. We, of course, have no jurisdiction to establish bounda- ry there, as we are empowered only | in water boundary matters. i This case, however, is a peculiar one. When the Barlow commission
 established the boundary, monuments ! were erected all along the line. each
 of which could be seen from the next preceding one. Why any dispute could have arisen I am at loss to un- derstand, but it is possible that some ] of the moluments have been obliter- ated, and If this is the case our work will be only to re-establish them" Naco, Arizona, is built right on the | international boundary line, and the center of some of it's streets is sup
 posed to be on the line. The monu. ments which were erected by the commission about ten years ago are still in existence, but none of them are less than a mile from Naco, but those on each side of the town are visible from the town. It is possible that a monument will be erected by
 General Mifls and Senor Puga oii the
 very street of Nsco and set at resi-
 any dispute as to the exact location of
 the line, which was run several years
 before Noca was a town.
 The Barlow commission, which es.
 tablished this line. together with the
 Mexican joint coThmission, were both
 dissolved about three years ago be.
 cause it was thought at the time that
 no dispute as to the boundary line could ever again arise. The present
 one seems to be a peculiar case, which could not be foreseen. ] When the request for a conference
 over the dispute Came from the Mexi. can government, the department did
 not know to whom the matter should
 be referred. It was finfally decided
 that the water boundary commission
 would have full jurisdiction in the
 matter, inasmuch as it was a decision as to where the line that had been already located belonged, and not tbe establishment of new line I Consequently the matter wss turned over to General Mills, and he com
 municated with General Blanco, who
 was at the time i'll of sickness from
 which he never recovered. and it was not until his successor. Mir Puga, had been appointed and assumed the duties lof the office that the matter was agaAp taken up by General Mills He confmunicated with the new commits sioner with request for an appoint ment. and the meeting at Fl Paso and the journey to the scene of the dispute today is the result
 General Mills yesterday expressed deep regret over the death of General Blanco. and spoke with great feeling of the ability of the latter.
 He understood the shortcomings of many Of his countrymen just as I do the shortcomings of my countrymen, and therefore it was never any trou- ble to arrive at an amicable adjust ment of any dispute that we might be called upon to settle," said General Mills.
 General Mills does not contemplate the necessity of staying in Naco more than one day.
 : %> . | %H<>%HA port to the president of the repub- lie and I reiterate to you the assur- ances of my consideration and re- spect.