The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-09
THE NORTHERN BOUNDARY.
The Old Dispute viii he Settled by the
Commission.

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New York. Aug. S.-Among the mat
tiers to be considered by the joint COM
mittee appointed by the United States
and Great Britain. which is to meet in
Quebec on Aug. %. says the Washing
ton correspondent of the Tribune, are
the arrangements for the complete def
milton and marking of any part of the
boundary lines between the United
States and Canada by LAND or water
where the same is now so insufficiently
marked as to be a subject for dispute.
A considerable part of the boundary
from the eastern end of Lake Ontario
to the western end of Rainy lake, on
the northern frontier of Minnesota, has
never been accurately defined or
marked, and frequent controversies
hav been the result, since the country
adjacent to the boundary has begun to
be settled and developed.
For example, citizens of the United
States holding patents there for lands
in Northern Minnesota have been
warned against and prevented from
cutting the timber by the Canadian au-
thorities, who contended that aid
lands belonged to the Dominion gov
eminent. American miners n pros
pectors on the shores and islands of the
Rainy Lake region have had their oper-
ations interrupted and prevented on
like grounds and American fishermen
IN Lake Erie nave DePn dT1cSIe0 anu
their vessels seized when. as they sup
posed and c~ontended, they were in
American waters.
In the Fifty-fourth congress the COM
mittee on foreign affairs of the house
Of representatives, investigated these
matters and reported with a favorable
| recommendation on a joint resolution
for the appointment of a commission
on the part of the United States 10 act
jointly with a similar commission on
the part OF Great Britain to define and
mark the boundary as conventionally
determined by the treaty Of Client and
the Observation-Disclosures treaty OF 1912.
No action was had on the joint resolu-
ton. Among the papers submitted to
the committee on that occasion was an
exceedingly interesting report pre-
pared by Assistant Secretary Adee of
the state department.
In relation TO that portion of the
boundary which crosses Lake Erie. Mr..
Adee reported:
THE Chen map OF Lake Erie Is ex-
traordinarily imperfect in contour and
inaccurate in dimensions as to all hat
part lying between the entrance to the
Niagara river and Point Pelee. II APP
pears from a note thereon hat the
part west Of Point Pelee and Sandusky.
including all the Islands. was reduced
from the actual survey made by order
| OF tnt commissioners anu a SSHdidAF
chart of the lake, westward of Point
Pelee. showing the triangulatiChs and
duly signed. lis embraced in the Client
series. The same ~footnote further
states that the other parts OF the lake
Except the entrance into the Niagara
river are reduced from such printed
maps as were supposed 10 be the most
accurate.
THAT the commissioners were mis-
led in their estimate OF the accuracy
OF the sources from which their mar
was compiled is evident by simple
measurement. For example. in thai
part opposite Long Point. referred e
I'm the committees letter OF jar. Il
as a probable field for dispute, the dis