Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 155, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1919 — FOR ELECTRIC BORDER FENCE [ARTICLE]

FOR ELECTRIC BORDER FENCE

Military Authorities Think That Best Way to Cope With Mexicans. Fort Sam Houston, Texas. —An electrified barbed wire fence along the Mexican border from the mouth of the Rio Grande to the Pacific ocean Is favored by; the military authorities who are familiar with the conditions that exist in that wide scope of frontier territory. As an adjunct to this barrier against bandits, it is proposed that a government highway be constructed along the bank of the Rio Grande and the remaining part of the international line. * ■ It is roughly estimated that the cost of building the highway would be approximately $12,000,000. No figures have been made public as to the probable cost of constructing the barbed wire fence. The proposition has been laid before the war department by N. Garper and Is said to have met the approval of the officials of that branch of the government.