The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-09-29

In some cases Americans who had thought
they were living in their own country
learned that they were in Mexico, while in
other cases Mexicans who had supposed they
were In Mexico found that they we're actual
residents OF the United States. Many Of the
monuments marking the boundary which
were set mp between forty and fifty years
ago had disappeared; but others have been
put in their place, and more than goo rev
ones have been erected along the line OF the
survey just completed. These boundary
monuments are plain iron shafts upon rock
and cement foundations. The distance sur
veyed was o miles, from FL Paso, on the
Rho Grande, to the Pacific at San Diego, Cal.
The boundary Commission has been in the
field for two and q half years, and upon the
staff of the Chief Commissioner Col. BAR
LOW, there wero eighty men, the engineers,
the soldiers, and laborers. In travers-
ing the desert regions Of Arizona they
had trying experiences, suffering ter
ribly from the intense heat, the lack
OF water, n the suffocating sand
storms. Thousands Of people have persisted
there since our possession OF them. The
surveyors, during a march along a trail
seventy-ive miles in length, counted as
many as $50 grave mounds, under which
were the remains Of adv%enturcrs, nearly all
Of whom, as was learned, had been victims
OF thirst. The Commission by which this
boundary line has been fixed was ~interna-
%tional and there was friendly cooperation
throughout between the American and the
Mexican surveyors.
The news of the survey in the far north
for the establishment of the boundary line
between Alaska and Canada which we have
received from our Washington correspond
ent Is of more interest, though the ques-
tions in dispute there cannoty yet be regarded
as finally settled. TIL work which has
been brought to completion was begun W
years ago by the United States Coast and
Geodetic Survey, in cooperation with a
British Canadian Commission The survey
ing parties of the two Governments were
mixed, each of them consisting Of MEM
bers of both the countries in interest.
The points at issue were complicated
and perplexing, by reason of the fact that
The line of demarkation between Alaska,
1t belonged to Russia, and the British
possessions lying eastward of it, had been
vaguely drawn, and was accepted
" uS oioci u puECHdSt. Int DTlUls0 nave
)een anxious to secure one of the broad in
cts running INTO the coast Of the main
and, and also an important collaborating
'egion along the Yukon, and also the piece
II territory in which Mount st. Elias is To-
lated. We have not yet got the details Of
he results Of the survey, and may not OBJ
possession Of them for some time. But
We are led to believe that they favor the
British Canadian side respecting several Of
he points at issue. Our Washington cor
respondent has spoken truly in saying
hat the country will learn with regret that
he towering st. Elias, long regarded as the
mountain Of the continent, is not
within the bound Of the United States.
)ther mountains lying further inland are
known to be yet higher than st. Elias,
ut they also are beyond our boundary.
Though the survey is completed, the
boundary is not yet permanently fixed. The
alidity OF several Of the claims Of the re-
parties, which are founded upon
rroneous geographical statements in the
british Russian treaty of 1898, are to be
nsde Che subject of:neses iatioa between the
and British Governments.
The shape Of the United States will, be but
lightly changed by reason of the new sur
eys in the south and in the far north. {