The Wrangell sentinel., 1929-08-08
Nature Gives Canada
 An Outlet For Yukon

An article by Percy c. Richards in recent issue of the Daily Colo mist of Victoria. B. O., though writ ten from a Canadian viewpoint, is most interesting in it's description of the importance to Canada of the recession of the glacier at Glacier Bay near Haines. The recession of the ice past the international boundary line was first noted by Walter c. Waters of Wrangell. MT. Richards article, in part, follows:
 When Lord Alverstone, one of the board of six jurists. who settled the Alaska boundary dispute in 1903, cast his vote with those of the three American commissioners, thereby creating what is known as the Panhandle" of Alaska (and conse- quently arouse the resentment of the two Canadian commissioners |, he little knew that other Canadians in later years would not forgive his decision. which stripped Canada of any vestige of an approach into Northern British Columbia and the Yukon Territory from the sea. That fatal decision in 1903 robbed both sub-Arctic British Columbia and the Yukon of access to the sea and the ports of the world except by crossing United States territory.
 Nature has provided the gateway to the Empire of the North and Professor H. T. Barnes discovery of fhn~F4aik xxylf fok T 1;, rupt and clear away large masses ice, will help nature to complete her bounteous but tedious task with greater expepition.
 Let me explain. At the farthest extremity of Glacier Bay, which pushes it's way inland from the coastline of the Alaskan ''panhan- dle" towards the international boundary, is a smaller inlet known as Tarr Inlet. It is at the very head of this indent in the coastline that the ocean gateway to Northern British Columbia and the Yukon Territory has been found. It was not there when Lord Alverstone gave his decision in 1903 and there by hangs a tale-a tale of how everything comes to those who wait and how nature rewards those that have untiring patience.
 It was 1794 that Captain George Vancouver sailed up Icy Straits and recorded the position of the glacier that threw off bergs into the straits. Glacier Bay was not known then,
 
 ing ice pinnnaelessn snfRe nmSssS5 3o%#fn %#fn deep and dangerous crevasses. No one who viewed that great bulk of ice then would have thought that some day he would be able to sail across the wide eXpanse of water that it concealed.
 Today, however, one cannot only sail over that very same spot; he can proceed right up the inlet and across the international boundary more than seventy miles beyond Icy Straits, where Captain George Van couver first recorded the glacier.
 Potential Wealth
 Just what this means in dollars and cents to British Columbia, the Yukon and Canada as whole, can not be estimated How can anyone estimate the potential wealth of such a territory as the Yukon, which up to the present time has produced more than $150,00O,0O0 in gold alone, not to mention her output in other minerals and furs. Then there is that partially explor- ed hinterland of Northern British Coulmbia, rich in timber, minerals and furs. Only when these are visualized can the value of this gateway to the Empire of the North be comprehended While the gate way is there, it has still to be de- veloped, for the glacier, while hav- ing receded, needs to recede much more before a shipping and railway terminal can be established. It is here that the new use for thermit is expected to be of paramount i'm portance.
 Following the record of the gla- cier made by Captain Vancouver there is no other record until 1874. when Indians reported the glacier