The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-08-15
RUSH IS ON ALL CLAIMED
Freight Being Hurried to Contention Made Che klol
the Interior ,i@Gc ls is,aa gan.
HEAVY RECEIPTS DAILY NO SUMMIT
Nearest Divide to the uVfnt, and the
Only Place For q Trs9 Watershed.
Says Richard ManAHsId White. is
Found at the Rocky n puntains.

Hon. Richard Mansfield White, explorer
and mine owner, from New York, who is
in the city on his wav,to thsynterior, fol-
lows up his point that tik International
boundary cannot be less th@ ten marine
leagues from the sea BY the csPtention that
the whole of the Yukon valky, including
KIondike. according to the9t'mol ntain>
summit" scheme should bea psrt of Alaska
proper and in the domain oft the United
States. He POUNDS his theofv OIL the point
the boundary is to be at the snmmit of a
range of mountains, and tllas there is no
range This side of tie Rockies because the
coast mountains are not a range. The
coast mountains, he contends.sre cut and
detached bv the rivers, and, therefore can
not form range. Mr.. Wfhs Yesterday
stated; ~ ~
"Tire ontv fahge Of inoiissfains the sum.
mts of which extend in direction paral-
lei to the coast from the S5th degree of
north latitude to the poin. of intersection
of the I4Ist degree of west longitude is the
Rocky Mountains, and thi nix that no one
will dispute that they are true summit or
divide. as no waters cross over them. BY
taking the Rocky Mountain divide or sum-
nit as the boundary, the whole Yukon ter
ritorV would belong to the United States.
And ne our pritich paiobhore ceaD RI he
willing to adjust and to change boundary
lines, think it would be well to suggest
that the whole question of boundaries be
thrown open for settlement, and that we
should take all that part of Canada north
f the United States and west of "The Dir
v'ide," or the Rocky Mountains, including
the islands off the coast in the Pacific
Ocean. This would give the United States
not more than we are certainly entitled to-
4 although for a period of time we have al
lowed the British to occupy it and to col
lect taxes within it.
1.-The British themselves hi I'VE raised thi:
question of boundary, and ha We disturbed
the peaceful rest which exist ed by the
entertainments; if they come out of tn,
contest with less territory tina n thew wei
in thew will have the consola zion to know
that an immediate improvement of its PEG
pie will take place in prosperity and hap
lpness. For, my position is that we hav
as much right to make claims and to en-
force them as our British neighbors; so
they wish to abandon or change that til
boundary must be at least the ten marin
leagues from the winding of the coast, A
mentioned in the treaty between the Brit
ish and Russian Empires and the Unite
States, and cannot be less than said dis
no range of mountains extend in a dire
ton parallel to the coast from the 56th de
gree of north latitude to. the point of int
section of the I4Ist deg zee of west long
tude' within thirtv-t hree miles of Il
coast line. These moontains assumed ;
extending in a line par aiie to the coast, b
the British, have been shown not to exis
as at least thirteen rlv erS or streams rise
greater distance than thirtv-three mil
from the coast, and flow into the Paci
Ocean in the distance fin )m Portland cam
to the I4Ist meridian. and certainly
summit of mou ntains ca n be crossed
flowing water. Hence I, satisfy our Brl
ish neghbors ft " their IL lsatiate craving
a summit, divi, lie or raDf Re of mountains
suggest the ockv N ountalns as t
boundary.
1.-The heading. and int reduction to VIII
! said about the boundar y between Alas