Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 231, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1911 — Black CROW IS A BIG RIVER [ARTICLE]

Black CROW IS A BIG RIVER

Tributary of Yukon Pound to Bo Hundreds of Miles Long—New Outlet to Northern Canada. Ottawa, Ontario.—A big river has been discovered in Canada. It la new in the sense that no one had any conception of Its extent. The Porcupine river Is a tributary of the the Yukon. It has a tributary known as the Black Crow. Until a month or so ago no one believed that the Black Crpm was more than twenty or thirty miles long. It la now known to be hundreds of miles long. The discoverers are the surveyors delineating the international boundary la the far north. The last word received from them was that they had traversed three hundred miles of the Black Crow. Access to the Arctic ocean will be rendered much easier from ti e northern portion of Canadian territory.