. Klondike : the Chicago record's book for gold seekers. nitedStates, w^as found to be about two miles on the Canadianside of the point of intersection of the true boundary lines,but that Great Britain had agreed to allow thepeak of the mountains to mark the point of intersec-tion of the coast and meridian boundary lines. Canadiansurveyors have marked the boundary at the most import-ant points in the Yukon country for the convenience ofofficials. The report of the United States surveyors shows thatthere is no appreciable difference between the deteimina-tions of the two parties. On our map jus
. Klondike : the Chicago record's book for gold seekers. nitedStates, w^as found to be about two miles on the Canadianside of the point of intersection of the true boundary lines,but that Great Britain had agreed to allow thepeak of the mountains to mark the point of intersec-tion of the coast and meridian boundary lines. Canadiansurveyors have marked the boundary at the most import-ant points in the Yukon country for the convenience ofofficials. The report of the United States surveyors shows thatthere is no appreciable difference between the deteimina-tions of the two parties. On our map just issued you willsee Birch creek marked wholly within Alaska, the mouthof it being some 350 miles west of the 141st meridian,as we have laid it down; neither can there be any disiniteas to the boundary crossing of Forty Mile creek. In may tell you the exact diliference there between the twosurveys is six feet. There is, therefore, no shadow offoundation for this revival of the exploded story of Cana-dian land grabbing. 14 224 THE CHICAGO RECORDS. tensilied intries byfringe of CHAPTER XV. COLD WINTERS AND SHORT SUMMERS. XDER the direction of Secretary of Agri-culture Wilson, Prof. AFoore, chief of theweather bureau, has made public a state-ment in regard to the climate of says: The climates of the coast and of theinterior of Alaska are unlike in many re-spects, and the differences are in-this as perhaps in few other coun-exceptional physical conditions. Theislands that separates the mamlandfrom the Pacific ocean from Dixon sound northand also a strip of tiie mainland for possibly twenty milesback from the sea, following the sweep of the coast as itcurves in a northwesterly direction to the western ex-tremity of Alaska, forms a distinct climatic division,which mav be termed temperate Alaska. The tempera-ture rarely falls to zero- winter does not set in until De-cember 1, and b\ the last of May the snow has disap-peared, except on the mountains. The mean winter te
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