Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1878 — Fixing the Boundary in Time. [ARTICLE]

Fixing the Boundary in Time.

If in the annexation the aim be to remove the bone of contention between Texas and Mexico, and secure the vast cattle-ranges of the former from depredation, the natnral line would be the eastern range of the Sierra Mader mountains, which runs southeast from the boundary of Arizona and New Mexico to Zacatecas. At this point the line could be continued to the Gulf, just west of Tampioo. This would annex Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo, Leon, and Tamanlipas, with small portions of Durango and San Luis Potopi f ~~JVew Orleans Times,