Valdez daily prospector., 1912-05-18
WILL COMPLETE BOUNDARY SURVEY Chief Engineer Riggs Expects to Complete Work by Middle
 of August

1 Thomas R. Riggs, Jr., chief en- gInc"r of the Alaska Bnuudary survey, has started north. Ac- companied by six engineers and f8 helpers, he is cn route for Rampant house, which is 65 miles north of the Arctic circle, tn join w. B. Reaburn, who was left at this station last year with six men. Mr. Riggs expects to ar rive at Rampant house about the middle of June and expects to fin lsii the last lap of the survey about the middle of August.
 The survey, which was order "d by the Anrrican-E English trib- unal m 1903, lO decide inc boun- diary disputes which had arisen between the American and Ca nadIan governments after the gold rush, was completed in rec ord time by Mr.. Riggs and his party. The lribunaI had cstimat- "d that il would take about ten years to survey the GOO miles of boundary, but it Was completed in i live. the first SurvryS having been i started in 1907.
 | The smallpox epidemic. in the Tar north which Was put down by tIl"f Engineer Riggs with dis iIIctinn, has not rrappearrd. say adNic"S received from Ram- part house. Mr. Riggs took dras- ir measures, hy ordering the vaccination of rvrry Indian with m range of the party and by us ing government stores. The first observations nf the Arctic tides will be made under the direction of Engineer Riggs. when ihr party c"mplrtcs itS last iO miles. Up |" the present lime no arcu- rate information exists as f., these tides.
 The boundary line is decided upon hy observations made b> SurN"ynrS under ih. direction of Mr.. Riggs and by a crew of Cana dian surveyors under direction of
 J. D. Craig. inc Canadian chirl "ilEIil''r. until tn" results rrarh work Is being done under inc di- r"rtInn of the American commis- sion, Dr. C. II. Tiiinlan. al Wash inGlon. who is also Suprrintnnd- "nt of il" coast survey. and hI Dr. w. F.. King. the Dominion chief astronomer.
 Bronze monuments are being placed every four miles and nb- SrrVatIonS of the magnetic drrli- nations are being made and mans are prepared of the surruundinp country. Last year the trigonci rIr survey embraced belt IOC miles long. 8ii square miles wrr, mapped and monuments were srl for stretch of 22i miles. \. G. Madden, of the United Stai"s geological survey, accom- panIrs the party tn determine Inc geological formations. Larg, masses of tropical coral hay, been found hy inc groIogist. yer, similar lo the formation of Inc
 Florida Keys.
 m" American party ihiS year will consist of 90 men and :! horses. The officers who are as- SIStlng Mr.. Riggs are: w. B R"aburn, who winlrrrd at Ram part house; William B. Gilmore A. C.. Baldwin, D. w. Eaton, SUP Vryors. and ". C. Gucrin and F. S. RyuS. Lopngraphcrs.
 Mir. Riggs and his party will after leaving the railroad ai White Horse, take the trail for i5O miles to Carmacks, where tho steamer Canadian is waiting to lake them fo Dawson for trans fer again to the steamer Tanana to Rampant house.
 The winter was exceptionally mild. according to u report re- ccived by Mir. Riggs, Inc lowest Temperature having been 50 de- grccs below zero. Game is cx- ccDtionally frequent and moro than ,000 head of caribou have been seen in ono herd