Borders (not the bookstore)

[LARSSON at VAX1.Mankato.MSUS.EDU]

Mike reports:
"Yeah, I had a grade school teacher one time who mentioned this fact. Seems
that when surveyors were sent down here to stake lines for the great state
of Arizona, they got drunk (and probably lost) in the middle of the desert,
which
lead to the fact that the southern border of Arizona (the border with
Mexico) angles up to the northwest and ends at Yuma. It was supposedly
planned that the border would continue straight east-west, giving Arizona
some ocean-front property in the Gulf of California.
 
I've never ever been able to confirm this fact (and don't really care much
one way or the other) but it always makes and interesting story..."


Treaty that ended the "bloodless" Aroostock War in Maine and settled the
boundary of Maine with Quebec.  It was supposed to go along the St. John River,
but at one point got detoured off to a tributary.  The canny Yankees didn't
let the British/Canadian side know about the detour.  When it was discovered,
they just drew a straight line to New Hampshire.


Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)