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Show (NTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY LINE. Mew Caaadloa naryey Tsaoa a Mlloo of Load froas tbo I tod) N tot am. News has been received at Seattla that the Dominion surveyors who bava been engaged in an effort to locate tha interoatioual boundary line whera it j passea through the Mount linker min- ing district in .Whatcom county, bava abandoned their work and left tha country. , According to their field notes tha line passes two utiles south of whera it hss always auptoned to have run, while their scientific observations pi see tha forty-ninth parallel, which ia tha boundary line, within a quarter of a mite of w here it has always supposed to have been. Should the field nolea atand, a majority ma-jority of the finest mining properties In the country will be on the Canadian ' side. j |