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[Clansgian AT wmconnect.com]

> I think the latest was that TN refused to even meet to 
> entertain the possibility of a claim. 

And rightly so.  Gov. Bredesen pointed out that state borders were 
mis-surveyed hundreds of times and in every case the established borders 
stand and the 
original calls are only a footnote in history.  Were I sit right now is a 
case 
in point.  The border between Tenn and Va was suppose to be a straight line 
west to east, but here the surveyers made a 5 mile "mistake" (local yarns 
tell a 
different story, of course) giving the "offset" on the NE tip of Tennessee.  
Virginia has never been stupid enough to claim that acreage as part of their 
state.  As for Georgia, there must be something in the water.

Nor is it just a regional question.  Less than am mile from here is South 
Holston Lake.  The Tennessee River is full of coveted water because it is 
empounded in the lakes (such as this one) and released to keep the river 
navigable.  
The water in question first goes through my place here in the form of Big 
Jacob's Creek, Harper's Creek, and Bee Suck Creek before the join and empty 
into 
South Holston Lake.

Georgia's water problem is because of over development.  The utterly 
ridiculious claim by Georgia's legislature just shows he level of desperation 
they 
have gotten themselves into.

James (standing relieved on the bank of Big Jacob's Creek, there, Georgia, 
pipe that into your water system)   </HTML>