Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-10-30
ALASKA noUSDARy LINE.
Report Of she Jsiat Commission TO be
pub i.hsd .lef,rs Lang.

Report Of she JDist Commission 10 be
rub ,i.hsa aefprs Lang.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.-rhe report
Q, tue Joint commits iopefs Appoiutei.
under the convention made In 1899
belveen Great Britain and ihe Uul,cI
States for the survey Of the territory
Of the United States aud Canada, So
laoent to tue boundary line dividing
Alaska ami Canada will be made In
tue course OF the next three months.
General Dufiield, chief of the coast
aud gO,deIic survey IL the commits
slonef on behalf Of the United States
ami ID, +. King serves In n Ike cupAc-
Ity iot Great Britain. Tho purpose OF
the survey Ia 10 furnish a basis for the
determination OF the lino rom IAti.
tudo "a degrees ~ minutes north 10
wnsfe the boundary line encounters
toe l4lst degree OF longitude, which
runs noTlnward, marking the eastern
boundary OF A laaka. General Duiil.ld's
Assistants, l.. Il. Dickens AMI Is. a.
Nrlcger, have been Ia the Fields nil
summer and are now engaged In
working out their data. Under the
treaty between Russia and Great
Britain fixing the boundary llnc OF
AlAska anu the subsequent treaty by
which Alaska became the property OF
the United States the boundary line
was ~ run from tho poiat whore the
Portland canal intsrsecis ths both d,-
gree Of latitude northwaTd along
tho crest Of the mountain
range, " there should be any,
10 the Hist degree OF longitude.
IL no mountain we're found ths line
was to run ten marine leagues from
tho coast line. No range Of mountains
was found, 20 that the United States
territory under the treaty In a strip OF
land ten marine leagues along the
coast. Along the coast nre n series OF
Islands beginning with Prince OF Wales
Island to the southwark, known ne the
Alexander archipelago, aud whom tho
reports OF the survey are made, the
question ~ 10 whether the ten marine
leagues lins IL to run inland from the
line VI these Islands or from the main
land aud ~ to whether the coast line
shall he considered to IDa from head.
lAnd TO headlRnd or 10 follow tho actual
coast line must be determined under
tho convention by the President aud
Secretary Olney on bshslto Of the u intel
States and Queen Victoria aud Sir
Julian Pauncsiotu ON behalf OF Great
Britain.
The Canadian maps now make tho
boundary line run ton marine leagues
from The outer coast line OF the islanus
OF the Alexander archipelago, showing
that Great Britain 10 ALREADY prepared
TO make n contention Tor that line.
The point at which the Portland cAnal
crosses the iity.sixth degree OF lati.
tulo has been dutsimlued aud also the
lOlnt Mt which the tea marine ieaguas
line meeta the l4lsi parallel. Mount
~. Ellas, II has betn ascei tsined, 10 IN
longitude l4O degrees, ~ minutes
In some respects, q more interesting
problem which General Duiileld II
now working on, 10 the determl nation
OF The points at which the l4lst degree
OF longitude 1.-THE eastern boundary lino
OF Alasknl orosbes this Forty Mile creek
ana the Yukon river, us this boundary
may Involve the ownership OF some OF
we gold pfopsrtits now developing
lhere. Ogitsvie, u British OH cial, de-
!efmlned these points netronomlcnlly,
IN 1883. BY his observations The Iilsi
parallel ctoeged Forty Mile creek 81
inllea from lite mouth, or junction with
Tue Yukon river, anu left tbs Lesa ON
Ihe latter now la Canadian territory.
ihe coast line, however, was flEed en-
iteIy by astronomical observations.
General Duffell's line Will also be
made from astronomical observations,
out he has other data, which Oglesvle
ulu not have, with which TO check
possible errors. The latitude and longi-