New Mexico Statutes Chapter 4. Counties § 4-8-3. Western boundary of Eddy county

That the western boundary line of the county of Eddy, in the territory of New Mexico, shall be and the same is hereby established as follows, to wit: commencing at the closing corner to township sixteen south, between ranges twenty and twenty-one east, on the third standard parallel south of the New Mexico principal meridian; thence south between said ranges twenty and twenty-one east, to the fourth standard parallel south; thence west along said parallel to the point where the line between ranges twenty and twenty-one east, south of said parallel, intersects said parallel, and thence south, on the range line between ranges twenty and twenty-one east, to the south boundary line of the territory of New Mexico.