Dublin Core
Title
Monument 9
Subject
borders (boundaries)
roads
Description
Without water, the landscape cannot sustain the urban or agricultural development typical of the Rio Grande Valley. The topography is entirely arid desert. The border is marked by 276 permanent monuments covering 698 miles from Monument No. 1 to the Pacific Ocean. The last monument, No. 258, reflects the numerical system adopted in the Boundary Survey of 1889-1896. The eighteen monuments added since 1906 were not assigned greater numbers, but were designated 2A, 2B, 84A, and so on. This view looks west at the border road just immediately beyond Monument No. 9. Mexico is on the left.
Mt. Riley Quadrangle: New Mexico –Santa Ana Co.; 15 minute series; #87
Creator
Goin, Peter
Source
Peter Goin Collection (MS 733)
Date
Undated
Rights
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Format
JPEG
Type
Image
Identifier
C20_TracingtheLine.jpg
Coverage
Doña Ana County, NM
Chihuahua, Mexico
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
TIFF