SOMETHING LIKE A FENCE.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XLIII, Issue 2282, 29 January 1912, Page 2

SOMETHING LIKE A FENCE.

Next to tbe Chinese wall the greatest fence in the world will be that which, if reports from San Antonio are true, is to be erected on the boundary between the United States and Mexico. I It is to be constructed, it is said, of stout poles, possibly reinforced concrete, and five-strand steerproof barbed wire. Mounted rurales will patrol the fence on the Mexican side and United States rangers on the north, and the expectation is , that smugglers and illicit immi- ' grants—notably Chinese will find it hard to get through. | The chief purpose of the fence is to prevent the spread of infectious diseases affecting cattle. The worst of these diseases is that which is caused by the tick. Where herds | afflicted with it are allowed to roam I it spreads far and wide, j The proposed boundary fence will |be something like a thousand miles in length.