Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1893 — Monuments for the Boundary. [ARTICLE]

Monuments for the Boundary.

There have recently been received the Mexican border two carloads oi Government freight consisting of the new line monuments and oilier necessaries for the work of definitely marking: the boundary line between the United States and Mexico. On the old monuments iron plates are to be affixed by means of boltp, on which is inscribed ia raised letters: “Repaired by the Boundary Commission, created by the Treaties of 1882-1886. The destruction or displacement of this monument is a misdemeanor punishable by the United States or Mexico.” The new monuments are of iron, six feet high from base to top of square, and six feet six inches high from base to apex. The shafts are tapering, being about twenty inches square at tho base and ten .inches at the top of square, the crown tapering to a point. On one side of the simft in raised letters is the following: “Boundary of the United States (under which, an American eagle appears), treaty of 1853, re-established by treaties 1881-1889. The destruction or displacement of this monument is a misdemeanor punishable by the United States or Mexico.” These latter monuments will be bolted on to a concrete base, two feet thick by three feet square and placed about two miles and four-tenths apart. The eastern (or El Pass) end monuments are placed two miles and six-tenths apart. The camp of the United States boundary commission is placed about half a mile south of the line.—[Dallas (Texas) News. Italy stands at the head of the wine producing countries of Europe.