Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1886 — Our Northern Boundary. [ARTICLE]

Our Northern Boundary.

The northern boundary of our country ia marked by stone cairns, iron pillars, earth mounds' and timber posts. The stone cairns fire 71x8 feet, the earth mounds are 7x14 feet, the iron pillars are 7 feet high, 8 inches square at the bottom, and 4 inches at the top; the timber posts are 5 ’ feet high and 8 inches square. There are 385 of these marks between the Lake of the Woods and the base of the Rocky Mountains. That part of the boundary which lies east and w.est of the Red River Valley is marked by cast-iron pillan-s, at even mile intervals. T)he British have placed each alternate one of these pillars, and the United States those between. Upon one side of each post is cast the inscription, “Convention of London,” and on the other side, “Oct. 20, 1818. ” Where the line crosses lakes stone heaps have been bnilt in the water, projecting several feet above high-water mark at the surface. In forests the line was first marked by felling the timber a rod wide and clearing away tho underbrush. Where this has since been cleared away, posts have been put in its place. —lnter Ocean. ' ' ■ Neuralgia and kindred diseases, promptly yield to tne immediate action of St. Jacobs Oil, the pain-conqueror.