Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-06-21
THE BOUNDARY QUESTION.

Editor Every Evening: I have sent
10 J. Carroll Hayes. West Chester, Pa,
tho following letter on the boundary
lines. which | desire to hnve printed
In your paper. as his letter was
I'm reply not only To your personal
letter. but also to your letter 10 the
Every Evening. would say, that M
regards tho legality OF the present limo
there IN no doubt. AZ TO whether tho
two states win reopen tho matter ]
beg leave to differ with you, for when
the manner in which interested parties.
both In Delaware and Pennsylvanin |
havo acted and the wrong information |
laid before the last commission rs
gone intr, I believe that both states |
will reopen the matter without hest |
/ tation. There IN no question ~ 70 !
the ability Of tho Const ard Geodetic !
| Survey. but they only obeyed tho in
structions given by tho commission
which labored under i.s misinforma.
tion and the two radli yas their only
recourse.
You say that you are no surveyor:
that il very evident; nor do you seem
to know that n primitive forest. such
one and free from underbrush q have
worked In forests without obstruction
In which I could geo for AZ least a
) milc). Surveys made by Taylor and
Pearson at about that date can be
run today by competent surveyors
! Their measurement Of the Circle and
Tho temporary line run IN 1882 was
go nearly tru" that Il was virtually
adopted by Mason and Dixon when
they made their survey IN 1888
This has been found true when sur
, veys were made by late Surveyors Of
farms on or near the border Tho bal
ance Of your Every Evening letter
, under the head Of Where the Trouble
Aes." IS pure conjecture and old
women's tales. The statement az 20
the loss TO Delaware Of a mile Of tor
ritOry on tho eastern half OF the sec
, tor, and that in the western half It
. would run over Into Maryland arc not
, IN accordance with the facts as on The
8 plot returned by the engineers.
81 propose 70 let you have n few
facts which are capable Of PROOF and
% not merely hearSay, The Narrow o1
T Horse Dyke was a bank Of earth which
n protected about three acres Of land II
j New Castle. delaware, on which al
q one time a grain mill was erected
r This dyke at !ts western end nearly
Z correspondent with the Wilmington
b road and Fourth street in that city
= In 1876 I took up from the side oi
d the road stone peculiarly married anC
L placed Il as q centre stone for Fourth
street and Wilmington road. Thii
: stone, I was told by several very olC
l. men. was regarded by them and thei
; fathsrs as being the centre OF tn
% Twelve-nlile Circle, and that 7 ehoul,
y not have removed It. This stone +
u about 25 feet from where I took Il an,
.. can be easily replaced in its origina
- position. It was from, or very nea
:. this point, that Taylor and Pearso
ran the radius OF - miles. from IN
=, end OF which they ran the circula
"A boundary line. This point IS abou
/, 1870 feet west and between 800 an
500 feet north Of the Old Couy
90 House steepie. Colonel Graham foun
n that the radius ran by these men {
Y. be no feet too long. starting where n
y did, and Captain Hodgkfns from IN
- ne 10S feet TOO lung-pretty fair wur
FOR old-t!mers with primitive instru
ments and wild forest lands? TIL
three stones from England were foun
by Colonel Graham. The circle a
cut by the Deiaware-NTaryland III
had the errors by his survey, as 70
'h lows: The southern stone was I57
feet too far north and tho three Sta-
OF stones 1887 feet too far south. and II
q; Pennsylvan!a+ Maryland stone broke
on off. He ran the old Mason and Dixc
'.' line and found the bottom u the stoE
ey n place and the top in a ravine clo.
by, covered by earth, and the con
IS mission replaced it The dlfere,
he centres taken would account for the
errors. II IS very singular that Il
first three surveys from no san
. centre should agree so closely AZ
/ only found 10 be 50 full II evors VIII,
| the good gentlemen OF Chester coun
Il wanted some OF our Delaware Ian
| If a close survey for points on L
western end of the sector were mad
some facts very surprising to q
II Chester County Society would coz
/ to light. and even they would be COZ
PEELED to agree that all was not ia
that was laid before the last cimlni
sion. From want OF true and prop
facts. the commission directed the
and G.. survey 10 be made as Il w,
II the Mason and Dixon survey W
right Sor the boundaries betwe
Pennsylvania Maryland and Del
ware-ATaryland. why should It not
good for tha circular boundary betwe
Pennsylvania and Delaware?
II "By measurements OF the map
the last survey, II the old and tr
centre be taken. IL would be easy
retrace the old line and only a (,
H PcnnsylVanians might find thel
selves in Delaware-not that We wa
them-and there is no doubt we COZ
Il raise a camp town and move tn,
houses back into Pennsylvania
II the old practice OF assessing the la
in the State in which the buildin
Il We're obtained, they even would !
main. This would let each owner Il
in the State he was born IN and cho
What our people want is only JUST
and We believe that the bulk OF
people OF Delaware and Chester cou
X ties know we are right. and that
whole trouble was caused by the
tluence OF some OF the members
II your society with some members
our Legislature. which caused them
break their promise 10 their cons
tuents and betray the instructions
q previous Legislature and their Sta
William A. KINNEY