Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1891 — The Eastern Boundary of Alaska. [ARTICLE]

The Eastern Boundary of Alaska.

A Government coast and geodetic survey party, who have been two. years in Alaska ( have recently reported that the Yukon gold fields, which, have thus far attracted the most attention, are in Canadian and not in United States territory, as had' hitherto been supposed. The boundary line is the hundred and forty-first meridian of west longitude, but its,' location had not before been marked' by the surveys, and will now have toibe more exactly fixed by a joint com-, mission of the two Governments., There were several hundred miners, in the district, and the upper Yukon territory lying Just along, the border line is said to be at-i tract! ng large numbers of seekers for, the precious metals.