Editing Oldham County, Texas (section)

===Border dispute with New Mexico===
For years, there has been a simmering dispute over a strip of land running north and south, including an abandoned part of [[Glenrio, New Mexico and Texas|Glenrio]] at the western end of Oldham County, as to which state it is lawfully a part of. The border between the two states was originally defined as the [[103rd meridian west|103rd meridian]], but the 1859 survey that was supposed to mark that boundary mistakenly set the border between 2.29 and 3.77 miles too far west of that line, making the current towns of [[Farwell, Texas|Farwell]], [[Texline, Texas|Texline]] and the eastern part of Glenrio appear to be within the State of Texas. New Mexico's short border with Oklahoma, in contrast, was surveyed on the correct meridian. New Mexico's draft constitution in 1910 stated that the border is on the 103rd meridian as intended. The disputed strip, hundreds of miles long, includes parts of valuable [[oilfields]] of the [[Permian Basin (North America)|Permian Basin]]. A bill was passed in the [[New Mexico Senate]] to fund and file a lawsuit in the [[U.S. Supreme Court]] to recover the strip from Texas, but the bill did not become law.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kbtx.com/home/headlines/1357432.html|title=Border War Brewing?|author=Daniel Gertson|access-date=July 20, 2018}}</ref>

The question was once settled in favor of Texas by the intervention of President [[William Howard Taft]], at the request of Senator [[John Villiers Farwell]], whose three-million-acre [[XIT Ranch]] would have been diminished by New Mexico's claim. With Taft's support, on February 16, 1911, the [[Joint Resolution]] of Congress on admitting New Mexico as a state declared that any provision of New Mexico's constitution that "...in any way tends to annul or change the boundary lines between the State of Texas and Territory of New Mexico shall be of no force and effect."  <ref>{{cite report|title=Report on the Resurvey and Location of the Boundary Lines between the States of Texas and New Mexico|publisher=Texas Land Office|date=1911}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Haley |first1=J. Evetts |title=The XIT Ranch of Texas: And the Early Days of the Llano Estacado |date=1929 |isbn=0806114282 |publisher=Lakeside Press |location=Chicago|pages=58–68 |quote=reprinted by University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK, 1953, 1977}}</ref>

Today, land in the strip is included in Texas land surveys, and the land and towns (the east part of Glenrio in [[Deaf Smith County, Texas|Deaf Smith]] and Oldham Counties) for all purposes are taxed and governed by the State of Texas.