The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1907-01-02

necticut and It was some lone before
Massachusetts aGquiesced in the re-
suits, which re-established as closely as
possible the original survey Of 1713,
save that it substituted a series of
straight lines with a number of angles
in place of tbs more or less crooked
line that remained after the removal of
many Of the original landmarks.
RESULT OF DISPUTES.
During these early disputes there
were accusations Of all kinds passing
across the boundary, alleging that the
original boundary marks had been will
fully moved to establish an incorrect
line. The survey of 1903 wos followed
by the placing of stones marked with
the date of the survey and the location
of each stone, at various points along
the boundary, and 1t was thought these
stones would settle any further diff
Guilty that might arise over the line.
But as tbs years passed it became
apparent that the stones were too
short, the action of the frost gradually
heaved them out of the ground and
they were lost to view. In 1926 the
same mistake was made and to-day
but a few of these supposedly perma-
nent landmarks remain to establish the
correct line, and some of those found
last summer by the surveying parties
had been moved from their original
resting places.
Two points along the line of survey
have been famous for the controver-
sizes that have arisen in past years re-
garding the proper course Of the boun-
dairy, namely, Southwdick Pond and
Risings Corners. AT Southwiek Pond
the old line ran along the east shore
of the pond, placing all the waters
within the boundaries of Massachu-
setts The shores of a pond being
rather unstable it was proposed by
Engineers Buck and PIERCE that three
: consecutive straight lines be run as
closely as possible through the center
1f the pond allotting approximately
half the waters to each state, but this
proposal the boundary commissions re-
jected on the ground that it was hardly
in their province to change the accept
ed and established boundary. 50 the
shore remains as the official line. Geo
graphically the entire pond should be
| included in the town Of Grnby and if
the line had been properly started by
the survey Of 1918 it would be so in
Guided AT present it adjoins the
northwest corner of the town Of Suf-
field
The difficulty at Rising's Corners
arises from the fact that instead Of
running due west from the corners of
the line takes right angled jog to
south for distances of eight rods and
then continues west. Here again the
engineers proposed to run the line
straight without the jog, but the conn
missions rejected the proposal
| Strange to say the jog occurs on a hill
where the earth is heavily graveled
and the stones along this portion Of the
line are almost this only marks of the
1926 survey that remain intact, the ac-
ton Of the frost being almost unnQtice-
able. The jog Of eight rods was the
most definite portion Of the entire
boundary line.
THE PRESENT SURVEY.
Inc present survey Just completed
was proposed by Massachusetts as the
! result of an activity begun some thirty
ysArrs ago by the state Of New York
FOR thas proper and exact establishment
n her bo2Qdaries. l. was found at
that time that tsse,oWssg3efn b.9Apdaries
OF Massachusetts were not fixed aiR
after the survey had been made to es-
tablish the correct line Massachusetts
proceeded to fix all her other bounda-
ries Of which the Connecticut line was
| the last. The line is now so definitely
\ laid out that the latitude and longitude
of every angle is fixed to ons-tenth Of
aksecond even If every mark along the
entire route we've destroyed the line
! could be re-establshed with equal ac-
ot1racy from the stations on the noun
tain tops of Massachusetts established
by the government coast survey, 1t is
entirely probable, therefore, that little
work will have to be done on the
boundary for centuries If the present
geographical divisions prevail.