New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-02
THE ALASKAN BOUNDARY.
Pacific Coast Discomfort and the Grounds
for It.
From The San Francisco Examiner.

From The San Francisco Examiner
Professor Davidson for almost half a century has
been connected with me I9ast aEd Seo9euc sur,
the Pacinc and professor OF geography at the
territory in question has been surveyed under has
personal supervision. In his book on the Alaskan
Association not only does he stismatize Canada ;
land claims as unrsaSonaoie ana ptsposteroGs pug
great deal more than IL deserves. what 1t deserves
g,1g tRat the canadians in their maps washed
out certain great mountain ranges anu Inserteu
Others which did not exist. to create false I'M
preston upon which they might found their essen
TALLY erroneous claims He says: The Canadian
mans have gone through curious and suggestive
series of transformations in their exhibitions OF the
tho, Claims Of precisonJ drew the iisi5re
around the Archipelago AIexande-, TO the extrava-
TaDr prit{sb Columbian map Of 1885. where the
BOUNDARY line passes through Clarence Strait, cuts
OF the heads OF most Of the iniets and approPEates
Inlet and forty miles OF Glacier Bay" Professor
later on the boundary line Is not inserted the
maps, but a legend follows It's wtShed-for course
OUT the Kotusk Mountains at the head Of Taiya
inlet This was an unusual and unwarranted at
tempt to mislead- II was. however, SURPASSED IN
the man of 1897 when the copper mines OF HOlk-
island We're drawn into Canadian territory. There
could be no greater disresaTd OF the text OF the
omitted the boundary line and inserted = note OF
"h t'' through tie discussion the efforts OF the
Canadian authorities have been to avoid the east
entrance Of Portland Inlet and they have forgotten
that the Russian charts quoted have named Dixon
s sn3FaH'e 'r'n'14 STRAIT "--''1 '-'''--. --
Of these disclosures which he supports with charts
drawn from the earliest explorers down to the
latest United States and British surveys, that the
question is which was never Of sufficient real
thus in his letter Of transmission to the publishers:
81 have summed up very briefly in stating that
the decision OF sovereignty over the isisre will
largely depend upon strict construction Of the
French text with the charts and narratives OF Van
co1Iver before the tribunal and for other reasons.
'.I have not nesitated 10 assert that the United
s-ates has an inpregnable right to the territo-y
that should never have been submitted to arbitra-
IN. decision OF the tribunal he also charscterizes
no r1roualifed terms After general CCnSldera-
ton Of the British claims and the share watch she
comes to the conclusion that the American au-
thorities were gravely at fault In permitting any
On the diplomatic controversy with Russia IN
rs2s25. Great Britain acquired much which she
nod no right whatever. but she lost the key 10
Soutlleastern Alaska the natural highway to the
interior. ,-..4 c..... -. - ss
mart Of the rights which Russia had consistently
"a 1erse+ently refused yield to Great Britain
rights wHic 70 sn torttHo years and mich RE
ITnIted states has held for thirty-six more.
States has already been designated sacrifice by
GOOD authority In Washington.
Sska Rounday Tribunal is contrary to the
letter and spirit OF the CONVENTION OF 80 and IN
Two governments then Interested 1t may be salts
factory to our government but Il IS not sound
-r a. "a; OF The award relating the Portland
Cvrs-rei il -eograrhicRl paradox. Neither chart,
statute or eiict you'd cohttse 49, I'm , r-,ii
T. tbe channel and highway Of the Hudson River;
nor viii any argument convlR 3 the worlo on seos
Canadian contentious is the infinitely better Port
PIE OF Russia ''a o'9'' '''--l