Show interstate TOWNS there Is an old story that hat many of tile the names of towns sleeping cars etc were devised y a maniac who had bad a passion tor for writing letters on the walls of his cell in meaningless travelers who attempt to pronounce some of the difficult names they see on oil cars are very much inclined to believe this story the appropriate names tor for nev towns are often as hard to select as car names and some of those select ed are apparently as meaningless and are as difficult to pronounce for many of them bo however Wever there Is a N reason eason many towns that lie partly Er iq in one state and partly in another or close to the state line have line fine sounding bounding and distinctive names name that ere are made up of parts of tile the of the two states the following are names of this kind that appear on maps issued by the united states geological survey of the department oi of the interior arismo arizona new Al mexico exico calada california calif orala nevada Cal calexico exico calif california ornia mexico in I 1 i the Alex mexican ican half of the town the ord eris reversed and it is called alex I 1 call az chineva calneva Cal Ca neva ineva calif california ornia nevada valvada calif california ornia nevada calzona call california f orilla arizona colorado new mexico caluta colorado utah UL all delmar delaware maryland kanorado Ka norado kansas colorado I kenova enova kentucky oho O alo west virginia g 1 I ia mondak montana north dakota alouida montana idaho Pe ninar genri pennsylvania maryland sylmar pennsylvania maryland texarkana Tex arkana texas arkansas texaco texas new mexico texla texas louisiana k uvada utah nevada nerada virginia virginia north carolina wyocolo Wy ocolo wyoming colorado in texarkana Tex arkana chichis chIs one ot of the largest towns ton ns on the list the post of fee ace building Is on the boundary line one halt half in each state some other names of 0 this class not yet shown h on geological survey maps are alb aga Ar arcinda arkinda kinda arkla Dark oming Tex hona hoina arado Wis wissota sota and lyuta it will be noted that this idea of combination appears to be particularly a southern and western one north of 0 mason alason and dixons line and east cast ot of the mississippi it has not i prevailed |