The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-06-12

were used where available and eartn
monuments were used otherwise.
Those below Manitoba were after
wards replaced by monuments OF
iron.
Had Military Escort
Guillot states that these monu-
ments were constructed of sod, about
10 feet across at the base and about
five feet high. In each of these was
buried a cast iron plate about a hall
inch in thickness, termed by them
''Soup Plates" upon which were
stamped the words Convention OF
London, 1878"
In the spring of 1874 the American
party was outfitted at Fort Buford
and moved to the boundary under an
escort of six companies of infantry
and two of cavalry detailed for hat
purpose by General Terry. This
large escort was required on account
of the presence in that country of
Blackfeet and other war-like tribes.
The main camp was established near
the Three Butes or Sweet Grass hills.
There the commissioner learned from
Major Twining that 240 miles of the
boundary left uncompleted the pre-
NlOuo ICdl OOCh SOl4PlCLOo ~
FTwining 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 the Rocky mountains, accompan-
led by Twining, a distance of ITO
miles. After travelling % miles he
was met the following day by Cap
A@sx fh@ D,s+f11 a4ra ~ 1G-
sioner, upon his return from the sum-
NIT, where the survey 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
Mackinac boats which had previously
been constructed under orders of
Major Twining, started down the
with Twining and his assistants
and reached Bismarck in 10 days out
of Benton.
Official Report CO 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-
titled al 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
20 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 :
l
"This boundary to be determined 1
vas that defined in the second art I
Gle of the convention between the I
States and Great Britain of l
20, 1918 whereby it was pro- :
ided that a line drawn from the y
point of the Lake of d
he Woods, along the 49th parallel X
f north latitude, or, if the said point I
hall not be in the 49th parallel of Il
.orth latitude, then that a line be c
rawn from the said point north and 4
.uth as the ease may be, until the b
aid line shall intersect the said par l.
lle1 of north latitude, and from the
of intersection due west along *
nd with the said parallel, shall be
ne line of demarkation between the
srritories of the United States and
hose of His Britannia Majesty, from
Lake of the Woods to the Stony p
fountains. b
Sat the time of the passage of the :
ct of 1872, the boundary between f
United States and Great Britain 1t
ad been surveyed and adjusted from T.
lie Atlantic to the northwest angle
[ Inc LdhG OIL Iuo WOOuS, anu Cue +
md line had likewise been surveyed l.
nd adjusted from the summit of the n
.ocky mountains to the Georgian y
leaving undetermined of the en- d
re boundary the line between the 81
orthwest angle of the Lake of the a
foods and the summit of the Rocky n
.ountains, the water boundary upon y
lie Pacific ocean, provided for by q
rtic1e 1 of the treaty of 1916, and u
lie line between that portion Of ter II
tory ceded by Russia to the United a
,ates, under the treaty of 1867, and 81
lie possessions of Great Britain. d
"Under Article "a of the treaty of q
Tashington, the question as to what E
as the proper water line through IA
lie channel which separates Van IL
island from the continent h
submitted to the arbitration of r
e emperor of Germany, pursuant to b
h0ca award and fho protooo1 of IN