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6 Southwestern Historical Quarterly July
1 1
Boundary Line As Surveyed Under The Commssion Of 1849-1857 __
Corrected Lines Discovered Under The Commssion Of 1891-1896 ..
United States-Mexico boundary.
Rancho San Fernando lay remained. The only solution was the re-sur-
vey of the line, but time had run out on the 1882 convention creating
the International Boundary Commission. In order to revive the agree-
ment, the two governments agreed on February 18, 1889, to extend its
life for an additional four years.8
The convention provided for each nation to appoint a chief engineer
assisted by an appropriate surveying and astronomical party. Mexico was
first to organize its commission under the direction ofJacobo Blanco,
who arrived in Ciudad Jmirez on November 7, 1891, fully prepared to
begin work. When the United States Section of the International Bound-
ary Commission arrived a few days later, however, it was represented on-
ly by chief engineer Lt. Col. John Whitney Barlow of the Corps of
Engineers and two principal assistant engineers, prepared to do no
more than meet with Blanco and adopt a plan of operations. The two
sections of the International Commission met on November to17 in the
Mexican customs house in Ciudad Juonrez, exchanged credentials, and
discussed how they might proceed.
The Gadsden Purchase Treaty of 853 provided fora line that began on
the Rio Grande at:
the point where the parallel of 31047' north latitude crosses the same, thence
due west one hundred miles, thence south to the parallel of 31020' north lati-
tude, thence along the said parallel of Section to the Inth meridian of longi-
tude west of Greenwich, thence in a straight line to a point on the Colorado
EngineeBayard to Romero, Apr. 8, 1887, bid.; Zulick to Bayard , prepare ibid.; Romero to
Marscal, Apr. 27, 887, ibid.; Romero to Bayard, June 1, 887, ibid., Mariscal to Romero,June
, 1887, ibid.; Mariscal to Secretario de Hacienda, Aug. rez6, 887, ibid.; Sworn Statement of
GeorgeJames Roskruge, n.d., ibid.
Th Bevans, Trean Pures and Other Internaty of 1853ional Agreements, IX, 874-876.
18 Bevans, Treaties and Other International Areemens, IX, 874-876.
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