The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-06-09
BOUNDARY LINE TROUBLE.
Change Of Location Puts american
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Change Of Location Puts american
Mines over on Canadian Side.
Vancouver, b. G. June s.-FroubIe
occurred Yesterday at tIie international
boundary line. in the Mount Baker
Mining district, ana as a result Amer
lean owners Of mines who are suffering
are protesting to the Canadian govern
meut authorities. On Wednesday the
American government boundary line
surveyor. BIr- SinC lair, finished deter
mining the line IN this district and
south tEan IT YVES supposed to have
been for the last three years. Two
thousand f9et of two OF the most val
liable mines in the district-the Gold
en- Chariot and the Golden star owned
by Seattle and New York people were
showed over into Canada. Canadians
jumped all tins ground, which had not
been staked according to Canadian
regulations, and was not recorded on
this side Of the line. AN appeal was
wired to the authorities at Ottawa by
the American owners. The claim
jumpers are still busy. come OF the
claims running very rich.
New Whatconl, Wash, June Sex
chief justice Of the washington su-
preme court, Elmon Scott, who is one
of me most heavily interested parties
ia he Mount Baker Mining district and
who star ted the agitation which re-
suited in both the American and Cana
dian governments sending commissions
to resurvey and relocate the interna-
tiOnal boundary line en- the western
slope of Lne Cascade moutains. was
toda-E snown the dispatches relative to
claim jumping in that district. also enc
from OttaNa denying that the survey
could have been completed by this
time He said:
II went into the district with the
American party which in reality COZ
sists Of two parties. one frCEn the geo
detic survey and the other from the
geological department They COM
menccd- work MayR23, and on that and
the following night perfect observa-
-Ons were obtained which enabled the
party to 9Ocate all of the old remain
ing marks. The monument popularity
supposed to designate the lire was dis
covered to have been an Cbscrva ton
post line, really passing some 3,40O feet
south.
"The only claims affected by this
discovery were the Golden Star and
che Golden Chariot groups These
claims We're located two years q go I'M
der American laws by G.. II. Sewer of
this city and were transferred by him
TO j, y. McManus of Seattle. Last Sep
TENDER, Thomas Lay, Book Ried and
William Jones, an Americans, located
them under canadian laws, Shortly
after this. Sewer located them under
Canadian laws These are the only
claims affected. When the question
was HIat tol7-u as 20 Nnefe tne me
runs ell of the owners of claims taken
under American Jaws relocated them
undes Ire laws Of Canada, 7eaving alb
sOlutely 80 chance for claim jumping
such as indicated in the dispatches. 1T
I is only two miles across the valley in
which there are claims in dispute and
when once the surveying parties got
line It took less than two days to
trace it through the territory in dis
pute- 7 stayed in the country until
after the American engineers had 10
Gated the line and when / came out,
May 30. bore an initiation TO the Can
adam commission then in Chilliwack.
to Join them. Their chief. Air. Near
thur said that he would start that
night.
district ten of the arrival of the Can
adian party and confirm the news chat
I the Americans had located the line cor