Identifier: reportofboundary00inte (find matches)
Title: Report of the Boundary commission upon the survey and re-marking of the boundary between the United States and Mexico west of the Rio Grande, 1891-1896 ..
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: International boundary commission (United States and Mexico) 1882-1896. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Washington, Govt. print. off.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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UNITED STATES ANU MEXICAN BOL-NDAKY. 23 After leaving the Sierra de la Nariz the line passes over a valley about 12 ujiles wide and thencrosses the Sierra de Sonoyta, at the end of which flows the Sonoyta Elver, a stream about 12 feetwide and 6 or 8 inches deep. Sonoyta was formerly quite a flourishing little agricultaral village, but heavy rains causedthe river bed to sink so deep below the level of the surrounding lands that irrigation was attendedwith many difliculties, and by a lamentable want of energy and united action in constructing a damto raise the level of the water the village fell into decay, family after family moving away, untilnow scarce a half dozen Mexican families remain, while abandoned fields and magnificent fig trees,dying for want of water, are painful reminders of past prosperity. About 8 miles west of Sonoytais situated the Mexican custom-house at Santo Domingo, on the ranch of Don Cipriauo Ortega, whocultivates about 300 acres of land, the largest area under

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