Show SURVEY OF ALASKA the united states surveying curve ying party part y which has been in the said field for or several seasons eod has just juat completed the survey 1 I the southeastern boundary of alaska aid will make inake its ita report to the alaskan I 1 I 1 boundary mission this latter body was wae appo appointed by the british and united states govern men sto determine the I 1 no ne between the two the report of the canadian surveyors sho 10 lo boa baa been made and an aa the two parties disagree materially in their it is possible that the commissioners also will fail to agree nd ad the stio whole matter will become the atje t of further diplomatic corre when the be united states purchased alaska tosaji ji from acussia RuB Bla there was no dispute as ae to 10 the czar having baving Boere lanty katy over what to la now how knowl know p as southeast alaska in fact this thia was waa acknowledged uy y the be annual payment of to the russians BuB siani by the bay company tor for privileges privilege a in the district referred to but that thai district abuts from the coast a vast extent of british columbian territory north of latitude ca and while it IN ie a thin strip of bt elabd yet it included inc ludee ucles all tbt portland porto port liand and be only outlet to the yukon country Is 16 them to the be material beabe benefit of the U 8 treasury or by an in brior tourney journey south to port simpson the yukon country Is rich with gold and the interior in ia becoming of con eid sid erable commercial importance as ai it cannat cau not be Jae developed except by way of alaska it is ie easily un debood why way the claim in now put freb by that akeis did not cede do tm to cu the he united states I 1 the treaty between bowls aej idy I 1 6 emmet aoa that the boba ahall commence from the southernmost most point of the prince of wales island bean in III the parallel ot 54 dog 40 mn north litti latitude ude and along the channel known as the portland canal until the degree of north latitude is reao beJ from which point the line of demarcation la in to be along the summit of the mountain range sit situated u abed parallel to the coast except that when the summit of such mountain range shall be more then than ten marine leagues thirty miles from the coast the theli I 1 ne neof of demarcation shall be at the ten marine leagues limit and follow the coast windings there are munt mountains ains all along nearer than the ten league limit and the english claim that these should be regarded as a mountain chain parallel with the coast anast the american surveyors purveyors bow howver vers point out that there is no chain of mountains paral para aeling the seashore but that the alaskan mountain peaks follow the trend of the streams and are more at right angles to the coast than parallel with it therefore they claim that the ten league limit should prevail TAN is ia the question which the boundary commission to Is called to de cuie ii ai they agree then the matter viii be settled but the prospect is that they will not the commercial interests of the floist english are ucb as to cause them to insist that a row 0 mountain peaks running along the coset coast though they belong to distinct or chains are to be regarded as a mountain range in the of the tf treaty asty as otherwise there would be no mountain range paralleling the coast if this view were not taken anken obviously the americans A cannot consent to this pr is as the survey shows show there actually to is so DO mountain range in the position described they boint out that the prevision in the treaty for the ten ebue limit lo in evidence eTl deooe that the aukers anken did not know wh the mountains mounta ioa formed a range or not dot but that bat if they did they wanted to in enli summit an aaa a boundary and it if bot then than the teu leacue limit was wa to be in force the settlement of this question will dispose of southeast alaska it if it the english way then the indentations on the coast pass pam through the mountains and d irive to the british seaports on their OWR own soil if it do doe not then the development of the yukon country will add wore to american than shoo to te revenue venues it does not mom probable however bo wever that the heu united nl fed states members on the commission commis siola fever ver will consent to I 1 lump u rap aag i ug from one too peak to another in order to create aja B imaginary mountain range parallel with the coast coall but that the matter will have to be determined between the be two wo governments direct and on the ton ten league limit line |