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settled. After a century of effort, we have at last determined nearly all 

 our boundaries except this between Alaska and Britisli (Joluinbia. If 

 we bejiin at once, it will be years before w^e shall liave determined and 

 marked this so that the lumberman and the miner on the Alaska 

 mountains will know whether they are amenable to the authority of 

 the United States or to that of (heat Britain. It is the part of wisdom 

 to settle this question of boundary whih" the debatable region is an 

 unoccupied wilderness, rather than to wait until conflicts have arisen 

 and blood has been shed. 



(Signed) James B. Angell. 



