Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1889-05-30 | Page 1 | The British-America-Alaska Boundary

The BritlshAmericaAIaskan Boundary OTTAWA May 29 Miners are flocking into the Yukon mining district in large numbers and the demarkation of the boundary boun-dary line between Alaska and the British possessions becomes more necessary daily as the jurisdiction of the American government govern-ment there is questioned many claiming hat the territory is British soil The Canadian government for a year or two past has been pressing the American government gov-ernment to join with it in settling the disputed dis-puted question The cost of demarking the frontier is estimated at between 1500000 and 4000000