Show IRRIGATION VENTURE CHANGES BOUNDARY OF UNITED STATES Special to Tho Timo Telegram HOUSTON Tex No Nov Noy- 21 n. When a It Texas irrigation c company company sought ht to secure se sc Rio cure a 1 flow of water yater from the Grande by cutting cuttin an ei foot eighteen foot channel to supply 6 ppl its Texas farms it il unwitting changed time the boundary of tho United States and of Mexico which to to- today da day dav is the subject of international litigation liti iti gation In the litigation several Mexican McLean land owners have Ilave combined with the United States government ill in filing the suit at Brownsville The defendant company admits admit that the tho course of the Kio Grande Orande has been diverted from its natural flow by cutting tho the channel through one of the large c bends This cut was rondo made about forty miles upstream from Brownsville As a result several wealthy Mexican land owners find their former Mexican ranches part of Texas in m the United States Although faithful to Madero ladeo and nd the Mexican flag yet they are subject sub sub- lect to the laws of the United States and Mexico In tho the suit the tho government prays that that the original course of the Rio Grande Orando be bo restored while the irrigation company company company com com- pany favors expansion for the United States and would indemnify the Mexicans Mexicans cans who in in a night found found their ranches moved into the United States |