Show SHIFTING CHANNEL RIO HIO GRANDE Givas Rise to Question of Sov Soy Sovereignty Over Southern Section Of City of El EI Paso KNOWN AS CHAMIZAL ZONE Stales 1 liars Alwn h l O Oter Oler er II in It inIX III M IX I IR U ra Washington R April 17 Tin Ii channel of the t JUo Ro Grande Orande ri r n a I 1 for UM Uta present nt controversy over the n Hh lutler i ithe the enaa southern them section of if r thi tn lt it of ot El 11 Paso Tease TI on n th il M t I xi x an frontier valued at 1 several eer l 1 n i dd lun lers really relly belong belon on n t I Ih ii n aids nid Id of the boundary line The land Involved hh kr u III i ia a as the wale Mie I and aud i a I 4 It n 1 the t ha h has H H x i I ii Ie about a untie mile ml 1 i 1 11 k mr and lIve blocks block wide Id In iii it I a i d I i part rt It l I ii mostly laid aid out oat t I Mock blocks and nd contains contain a large i i ih owne l and occupied pun iro i Iby p i iby by Mexicans Ix KI El 1 Pita Paso had h n nr never Ter con ld io t MI II I I claim claims seriously until n Ii I meeting of ot PreM President nt Tart in I I Ident Ident dent 4 nt Wax Du In KI FI Paso I last las vi u I a h I n a nIt aIt It aas a agreed the th disputed riI ay i r rd u a that particular 1 nil 11 he be h n I a u as a neutral sone ne TI 1 lIzon of KI Paso regarded this a nit KI l un rt is ia ot of f the hIghest hip mn equen e an as R It tend Id tended IdI tended ed I to t that might have han hann havea h hR n R to the territory cl aipa II im lyn immediately m mediately were taken baken to n sure ure U R a 1 settlement of the tile whole bol matter n 1 as re real l e citate ute values value In the Ih unction section In Involved involved were ml seriously affect affected ed ad 11 of ot Bt Pa Ja Including In the mayor vIsited the th stale tte t department df i seine mroe weeks week ago a o and nd urged i e y Knox to dispose o n of the a soon oon a as representing that Ihal delay leley hud had ha already Irl de depressed the value h of f prop property IP IPe erty e ty lying 1 within the zone ln fluey flY Knox guv pv gave he h would take tk up the matter mtr Immediately with Mexico and anal Id hoped ho a K con nI might b be reached within the next few r weeks week The Th treaty of o peace pt with lh Mexico In Infixing Infixing which followed the war wr of nr 4 fixing the th along ns the th Texas Texa TexI frontier provided the th channel I of the Rio Grande Orand bould be the th boundary b nr line but bt In boundary lne those th convention viv tt e p IY of rf and a l 18 the fart fact fl wan a recognized that hat the Itlo IUn river was wan 1 extreme ly Iy y Ockle and d 11 it I w warn agreed II In the th event of or n a change Iban In the th of the th river riverby by secretion accretion the tl territory reIned Ine bv by h b either country should ald remain In the th country Into It had been thrown we but In the th event rf of A change ci bv by b cynig evolution tion lon the th territory teto Involved should houM re remain main Use the property of ot the t country with within wih man in who whose borders border bel It origInally wa was a Up pp Ip w to a few fw year n ago Mexico 1 eri ed ad tn to have bave In the th exercise e eby by the th United UnIt au States Slate t o of f over or the territory now DW In dispute but at Itt that time U certain claimants to m th ta tl land entered wit miH IK In the lbs tb federal teI court to In determine tin IU it status tat Pine Pome f time ago agn the th Mexican g 1 m tt a Ito fl tn 00 o th tb authorities In tt o et In t withdraw VInon It It Its claim to the strip If It th tim tl United States mate Ital would It e reds to Mexico MicO Mulo an in Island In the th Rio Hlo rande nd river rI M 10 a miles mile mi below tl KI r Paso Pa o known ax as Man Kan ln KIU rio island Inland containing l about bout no acres acre a The T States State lt however pr had hR re reasons Mini lIOn for tor If de chinin this thin offer or n 1 In turn tum sub b a counter proposition I th the terms terran te tent of or which hii have e no not nM h been een ma ml made public |