Show I 1 old boundary squabble abble 1 1 I I 1 I 1 I 1 1 sat satisfactorily adjusted I 1 vermont vermon t new hampshire I 1 limits clearly defined washington DC in 1912 ver New hampshire decided to ask I 1 the united states i supreme court I 1 where one begins and the oth er ends finally approved a few weeks ago was special commissioner er 1 samuel S gannetta Gan report on the mile boundary line which follows thi the meanderings ande rings of the connecticut river between i states actually disputed miles of line linCi Were sur keyed from which the w whole hole bound ary wai was marked beyond doubt pr or question I 1 this mis 11 says the national geographic society is the last word in a boundary squib squabble ble which has caused bloodshed eA engendered gendered a re fu salto admit the tree republic of verr ont to tf the united states until 1791 and inspired vermontis Ver monts flirtation with a canadian canilla union it eien even involved ef efforts to split off a 1 separate i I 1 rate state between bettien vermont arid new H hampshire the newly approved boundary apparently changes no ones post office address transfers not a single mile square parcel of gro ground and and will necessitate no changes in maps on an ordinary scale the connecticut 6 rivers west bank has in recent years been the accepted boundary and the new line merely marks off the west banks original low water mark before d dams a ms w were re built I 1 to alter the rivers flow I 1 bridges i and taxation n I 1 the result has been to allot vermont 11 jurisdiction tion over la a lew few more bucketsful buckets ful of river in one spot several more to new hampshire in another it ra may lly now be definitely known at which ripple vermont regulations gobern trout I 1 fishing 1 and where new hampshire i game 1 laws apply I 1 the true basis tor for a boundary dispute this late I 1 fin i history is the ahe problem of bridges and taxation it is a question of which state shall receive the taxes tax eson on riverside paper lumber and pulp mills 1 and the huge hydroelectric plants f from r 0 in I 1 whose dams on the connecticut river lines car carry ry electricity throughout much of new b eng england land Vei vermont is awarded a new island oi or sa so arid and some new exclusive exclusa tax clients new hampshire wins the expensive pen sive duty ot of maintaining most of 0 the bridges the upper connecticut is a well behaved attle river and would eardly ha ba worn out the botin boundary dary line it if lift left to itself except for several era I 1 cutoffs cut offs 09 its rocky route twisted I 1 and slow has changed little since a i 0 4 1 I lively logging industry filled it with rafts ot of timber fro from low wooded mountains mounia 6 on both sides ides i now novi logs must come down to the pulp mills milli by truck oi or rails lor the river Is blocked block edby by te ten i dams in its mile career career as a boundary boun daiy be cause ause height of the river is now almost completely cot controlled rolled by these dams the natu natural rallow low water mark was lost and ad had to be fished for fora to establish it it a survey of bf the river had to be supplemented supplement id by old ma maps and blue prints 1 I rely on north star I 1 11 1 accuracy of this surreys survey was guaranteed by starlight early american Amer icam surveyors worked with the compass which varies even during a day in the same place this survey was checked every three thre e or four emilei by re reference feie ce to the north star with trin transit sit surveying rods and chains a single commissioner and 1 his small field party of engineers s set settled ledi a boundary which had baffled three co commissions before 1792 and had caused bitter I 1 fighting As the 1 actual between ver mont and new hampshire is usual i ly submerged etwas it was fiote practical pric mark it with monuments s on the I 1 spot thellie the by bya 91 1 reference markers bronze plates on granite shafts planted live five feet deep to defeat the new england trost frost I 1 the vermont new hambsh hampshire boundary Is the lon longest jest andros and possibly the longest disputed to be mat marked ked in recent years years since 1820 1920 I 1 six other st state ite line disputes hive have been settled by the supreme court and commissioner gannett arkansas had lines iines drawn tor for about 10 i miles eachl each along the bo boundaries un darles I 1 which it shares with tennessee and mississippi s ippi A minnesota wisconsin limit was fixed for f or I 1 about 17 emilei miles surveyed in winter on the ice fee around duluth the Thi capricious mississippi sip pi necessitated a survey between louisiana and mississippi i co confirming louisianan Loui Loul claim to about 12 square m miles iles in dispute terii texas has i required the most botin boundary botindari dary doctoring anew ane line bd between tween the lae star state homa was wa run for mile salong t the h e on one e hundredth meridian nier idian the re sul s one ot of the straightest ind and most accurately determined bound aries ori dand it pared square square riles miles of 0 oklahoma toen large texas on the texas new mexico boundary was run oni one of the crook edest lines possible requiring five monuments per perdue mUe it from gettling lost intes in It sown I 1 own meanders Par tot the line between col orade and mexico is still stil liin un ni marked irked a and d um uncertainty er taint eilets eils ts 0 ver bitsoe thi the texas arkansas and the virginia DI district strict of col columbia ambia bou boundaries cl otherwise state the united states are pretty definite nite |