The Kevin review. [volume] (Kevin, Mont.) 1922-1929, 1924-06-12

Monuments built of stones or T
were used to mark the line. StOne
were used where available and cart
monuments were used otherwise
Those below Manitoba we're after
wards replaced by monuments
iron.
Had Military Escort
Guillot states that these monu
ments were constructed of sod, abou
: 10 feet across at the base and abou
: five feet high. In each of these wa
buried a cast iron plate about a hal
l inch in thickness, termed by then
l "Soup Plates" upon which wer
: stamped the words Convention Q
London, 1873"
In the spring of 1874 the American
; party was outfitted at Fort Bufort
and moved to the boundary under al
escort of six companies of infantr.
and two Of cavalry detailed for tina
purpose by General Terry. Th1
large escort was required on account
of the presence in that country O.
Blackfeet and other war-like tribes
The main camp was established neal
the Three Butes or Sweet Grass hills
There the commissioner learned from
Major Twining that 240 miles of the
boundary left uncompleted the pre-
vious year had been completed by
Twining since he reached the bound
airy earlier in the spring, in less than
six weeks.
Commissioner Campbell, on Aug.
IL, 1874, left camp at Three Buttes
for {b~ ID ~oI~xv ,@,N{.-, nnorlroY n
led by Twining, a distance of ITO
miles. After travelling % miles he
was met the following day by Cap
tain Cameron, the British commits
sioner, upon his return from the sum-
nit, where the surve was progress
ing rapidly to its conclusion.
On August II, 1874, Commission
er Campbell reached Chief Mountain
lake, near the base of Chief Noun
tain, and on the goth started over
the Rockies with a pack train, the
trip requiring two days in crossing
and two in returning. At the summit
he found the American and British
parties approaching the termination
of the line and searching for the
monument which had been erected on
the summit at the terminus of the
boundary line surveyed from the
Rockies to the Pacific under author
ity of the treaty of 1916. The monu-
ment was at last discovered in a
spot very difficult of access, the sur
vey was carried to it and the line was
thus completed from the lake of the
Woods to the summit of the Rockies.
By September IL, the various
American field parties having assem-
bled at Fort Benton, a fleet of six
boats which had previously
been constructed under orders of
Major Twining, started down the
river with Twining and his assistants
and reached Bismarck in IS days out
of Benton.
Official Report CT Survey
An official report of the survey
was made to the president under date
Of February %, 1877, by Hamilton
Fish, secretary of state, which is re-
produced as follows:
"By the act of March 10, 1872, en-
an act authorizing the survey
and marking of the boundary be-
tween the territory of the United
States and the possessions Of Great
Britain, from the Lake of the Woods
% the summit of the Rocky noun
aims, the president was authorized
@ cooperate with the government of
Great Britain in the appointment of
joint commission for determining !
iuch boundary line between these {
]
This boundary to be determined !
vas thai defined In the second art !
Gle of the convention between the !
United States and Great Britain of
october 20, 1918 whereby 1t was pro- $
ided that a line drawn from the :
point Of the Lake of !,
he Woods, along the .49th parallel :
t north latitude, or, If the said point :
hall not be in the 49th parallel of L
Orth latitude, then that a line be :
rawn from the said point north and =
outh as the case may be, until the
aid line shall intersect the said par
llel of north latitude, and from the
of intersection due west along
with the said parallel, shall be
he line OF demarkation between the
erritories of the United States and
nose of His Britannia Majesty, from
ne Lake of the Woods to the Stony
fountains.
cat the time of the passage of the
ct of 1872, the boundary between
lie United States and Great Britain
ad been surveyed and adjusted from
lie Atlantic to the northwest angle
{ the Lake Of the Woods, and the
line had likewise been surveyed
nd adjusted from the summit of the
ocky mountains to the Georgian
ay, leaving undetermined of the en-
re boundary the line between the
orthwest angle of the Lake of the
foods and the summit Of the Rocky
ountains, the water boundary upon
lie Pacific ocean, provided for by
rticle 1 Of the treaty of 1916, and
le line between that portion of ter r
tory coded by Russia to the United
.ates, under the treaty of 1867, and
le possessions of Great Britain.
"Under Article "a of the treaty of
'ashington, the question as to what
as the proper water line through
o channel which separates Van
island from the continent
submitted to the arbitration of
9 emperor of Germany, pursuant to