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monuments were used otherwise
Those below Manitoba were after
wards replaced by monuments o
| 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 hal
! inch in thickness, termed by then
''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
and two of cavalry detailed for that
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-
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 the Rocky mountains, accompan-
led by Twining, 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 survey was progress
ing rapidly to it's conclusion.
On August II, 1874, Commission
er Campbell reached Chief Mountain
lake, near the base of Chief Noun
tain, and on the 10th 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
river with Twining and his assistants
and reached Bismarck in 18 days out
If Benton.
Official Report CO Survey
An official report of the survey
vas made to the president under date
If February %, 1877, by Hamilton
fish, secretary of state, which is re-
Produced as follows:
"By the act of March 10, 1872, en-
tiled an act authorizing the survey
md marking of the boundary be-
ween the territory of the United
tates and the possessions of Great
Britain, from the Lake of the Woods {
0 the summit of the Rocky noun l
aims, the president was authorized
0 cooperate with the government of U
treat Britain in the appointment of 7
joint commission for determining L
ach boundary line between these G.
oints. y
''This boundary to be determined L
as that defined in the second art Z
lie of the convention between the +
nited States and Great Britain of
ctober 20, 1918 whereby it was pro- e.
ided that line drawn from the W
point of the Lake of a.
lie Woods, along the 49th parallel k'
north latitude, or, if the said point III
lall not be in the 10th parallel of LII
orth. latitude, then that line be =
rawn from the said point north and a
'uth as the case may be, until the
i'd line shall intersect the said par
lei of north latitude, and from the
lint of intersection due west along
i'd with the said parallel, shall be
e line of demarkation between the
rritQries of the United States and
ose of His Britannia Majesty, from
g Lake of the Woods to the Stony
ountains.
'At the time of the passage of the
t of 1872, the boundary between
e United States and Great Britain
ID been surveyed and adjusted from
e Atlantic to the northwest angle
the Lake of the Woods, and the
nd line had likewise been surveyed
d adjusted from the summit of the
,cky mountains to the Georgian
y, leaving undetermined of the en-
e boundary the line between the
rthwest angle of the Lake of the
oods and the summit of the Rocky III
,untains, the water boundary upon
> Pacific ocean, provided for by
ticle 1 of the treaty of 1916, and u
} line between that portion of ter ~
DRY coded by Russia to the United
ties, under the treaty of 1867, and
} possessions of Great Britain.
Under Article "a of the treaty of III
lshington, the question as to what
s the proper water line through
, channel which separates Van
lver's island from the continent
s submitted to the arbitration of
emperor of Germany, pursuant to
ose award and the protocol of u
rich 10, 1873, such line was ulti-
tely fixed and determined.
The commission authorized under
act of March 10, 1872, was or
lized soon after the massage of the