Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 238, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1911 — BLACK CROW IS A BIG RIVER [ARTICLE]

BLACK CROW IS A BIG RIVER

Tributary of Yukon Found to Be Hundreds of Miles Long—New Outlet to Northern * Canada. Ottawa. Ontario. —A big river has been discovered in Canada. It Is new In the sense that no one had any conception of its axtent. 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 Crow was more than twenty or thirty miles long. It Is now known to be hundreds of miles long. The discoverers are the surveyors dsllneatlng 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 the northern port 100 of Canadian territory.