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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Alaska, (search)
in the Yukon region, which it was thought might be provided with sea-coast outlets in the territory of the United States. In 1900 the all-water route to the Klondike was 2.705 miles from Seattle to St. Michael, and 1.313 miles up the Yukon to Dawson, the voyage taking about seven weeks. The most feasible land route started from the head of Lynn Canal. The Dyea, or Chilkoot Pass, route leads 527 miles northwest to Dawson. The Skagway, or White Pass. route is somewhat longer and more difficDawson. The Skagway, or White Pass. route is somewhat longer and more difficult than the Chilkoot. The Dalton route, which crosses the Chilkoot Pass, joins the others at Fort Selkirk. Up to that year the Chilkoot route had been the most popular one, but it was then believed that the Teslin route would prove the most advantageous in the future. Governors of the Territory. Military Governor. Gen. Lovell H. Rousseau1867-- Civil Governors. John H. Kinkead1884-85 Alfred P. Swineford1885-89 Lyman E. Knapp1889-93 James Sheakley1893-97 John G. Brady1897-1901
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Alaskan boundary, the. (search)
eliminary survey was preferable to a formally constituted joint commission, and suggested that such a. survey would enable the two governments to establish a satisfactory basis for the delimitation of the boundary, and demonstrate whether the conditions of the convention of 1825 are applicable to the now more or less known features of the country. Early in 1888 several informal conferences were held in Washington between Prof. W. H. Dall, of the United States Geological Survey, and Dr. George M. Dawson, of Canada, for the purpose of discussing the boundary and elucidating. so far as the information then in existence enabled them to do, the questions which might be involved in it. The result of these conferences was communicated to Congress. A further step was taken in the convention between the United States and Great Britain of July 22, 1892, by which it was agreed that a coincident or joint survey should be made with a view to ascertainment of the facts and data necessary to t
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Geological Society of America, (search)
Geological Society of America, founded in 1888. Officers: President, George M. Dawson, Canadian Geological Survey, Ottawa, Canada; secretary, H. L. Fairchild, University of Rochester; treasurer, I. C. White; editor of the Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, J. Stanley Brown. In 1900 there were 245 fellows. The entrance fee is $10, and the annual dues $10.