Show MOUNTAIN AND COAST itARXING A BOTJITOARY American Uinors in Porcupine District Dis-trict Alaska Protest Skaguay Alaska July 36lh via Seattle Wash July J3 iTho work of delimiting the provisional boundary In the disputed AlaskaCanadian territory having been completed In that part crossing the Dalton Dal-ton trail and touching the porcupine district the Americana In that district find that they liavo lost a largo part of what they believed was rightfully American Ameri-can territory The survey has ue < jn run and the monuments set within the lout few weeks by O IL Tlttman of Washington Washing-ton D C and W F King of Ottawa and assistants who have simply followed instructions In-structions as sot forth In tho modus vl vend agreed to provisionally some months ago by Secretary Hey on tho part of the United States and British representatives represen-tatives after the adjournment of the Joint high commission Tho survey and dcmarkatlon of the line leaves nearly onehalf ot the Porcupine gold mines In the British territory and It has been the general opinion for a longtime long-time that the mines In fact tho entire Porcupine district was on the American Hide Much of the Dalton toll road leadIng lead-Ing to Porcupine City now lies within Canadian territory also that Is 10 on the Canadian aide of the Iron monuments set oa the provisional line The American miners In the Porcupine having watched the development of the work of delimiting and marking tho boundary were GO aroused over the result of so much of the mining district being left on their side that they were not Ibng l In addressing a protest to President Mc Klnley Copies of tho protest have been sent to the Chambers of Commerce of Seattle Skaguuy San Francisco and Portland with a request for cooperation Tho commission will ho In the vicinity of Skaguay a month delimiting the provisional provi-sional line on White pass and Chllkoot pane The Porcupine placer mines it Is estimated esti-mated will yield S2TXCOO this year Work of sluicing hydraullclng and other kinds of mining is carried on In tho district |