The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-07
 Along Alaska's Eastern Boundary. (From Harp CTS WeeklYl M

had occasion in the year 1892 to visit a. number of points on the southeastern coast of Alaska, and to spend four four months in camp at Yakutat Bay, near the base of Mount st Elias, where at the time of my visit Messrs. J. F. McGrath and J. H Turner, of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, were engaged in ascertaining the exact longi-
 tude of the great peak, and securing other data as a preliminary to subse- quent boundary work. Further travels in Alaska and adjacent portions of the British possessions took nse, in April, 1893, over the Chiikoot Pass On foot to
 tic head Waiteffts5s Of # uikof, and
 down that stream to the mining camp of Forty y-mile Creek, where I remained three months. Leaving here at the close of summer, I pushed on to the north, and went into winter quarters with
 band of TinnIeh Indians on the site of the abandoned Hudson Bay company's trading post of Rampant House, on
 the Porcupine river, within rifle shot of
 the lonely cairn of stone erected by Turner i'm 1890 to mark the exact point where the Hist meridian intereseets the Porcupine river. A long snowshoe jour- ney toward the north undertaken dur ing the winter, brought me on March
 27, 1894 to the end of the continent at Demarcation Point, sixty miles west of
 Herschel island, in the Arctic ocean, where I found the Pacific Steam Whal-
 ing company's fleet in winter quarters.
 The journey from Rampant house to Demarcation Point had been in a due h 1T
 of one considerable detour to the west,
 and had consequently been along or very near the boundary lime.
 Atthis point it may be proper to state that a.s to that portion of the boundary line extending from Mount St, Elias north to the Arctic ocean there is and can be no serious dispute. It is ae- kniowledged by both parties that the Hist meridian divides the American from the British possessions, and the exact location of this meridian is mere ly a matter of painstaking astronomi- cal observation and calculation. What
 ever friction may arise in the future over this portion of the boundary line will not be on account of the uncertain
 ty as to its location, but because of the fact that it lies between the placer dig gings of the Forty-mile Creek district and the village of the same name on the Yukon, from which the miners must necessarily obtain their supplies, as 1t is the nearest point to the diggings that can be reached by the Yukon steamer The Yukon river, which rises in the British northwest territory, flows in a northwesterly direction, and enters Alaska. At point about eight miles east of the boundary line, and forty five miles above where the Yukon cross- es this line, the river receives the waters of Forty-mile Creek, stream about
 eighty mile long, on the head watens of which, we'll over the line in Alaska, are the much talked of Yukon gold dig
 gings. At the junction of Forty-mile
 Creek with the Yukon on the British
 side of the line are the trading post and collection of miners cabins, comprising quite a village, which takes its name from the creek. The great bulk of pro- ! visions and general supplies needed by the camp must be brought in by way
 of the mouth of the Yukon.
 At Forty-mile Creek, Mir. L. N. Me Queen, who has been for many years
 a trader on the Yukon, took charge of 1 the goods that had been brought up on | the steamer Arctic, of the Alaska Com
 mercial company, in it's annual 1,400
 mile trip up the river. and sold them at retail to the miners and Indians, taking | gold dust and furs in exchange. The | miners worked in the diggings eighty
 miles east of the village from May until l September, and the proyisions necessary for their use during this short working l mile Creek in boats poled by Indians,