During the five years that have elapsed 

 since the conclusion of the treaty a com- 

 mission of American and Mexican engi- 

 neers has been constantly at work sur- 

 veying the river, locating new bancos, 

 and, on the basis described above, de- 

 termining to which country they belong. 



At the end of December, 1912, the 

 commission had located, surveyed, and 

 mapped 89 bancos situated in the lower 

 reaches of the river between Rio Grande 

 City and its mouth. On each of these 



bancos a permanent monument has been 

 erected, by means of which and the maps 

 which have been prepared any given 

 banco can now be identified, no matter 

 what the action of the river may have 

 been in the meantime. 



Thus the great turbid, silt-bearing river 

 is left to pursue its way untrammeled; 

 but the terrors so long synonymous with 

 its name have through the operation of, 

 this equable arrangement become a par 

 of the storied, romantic past. 



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Photo by A. Y. Tugarinoff, Curator Krasnoyarsk Museum, Siberia 



A hlV^ SABI^K IN tut MUSEUM AT KRASNOYARSK^ SIBERIA 



Mr. Frank N. Meyer, an agricultural explorer of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 suggests that it might be a profitable venture for Americans in the northern Rocky Mountain 

 region tp import a few pairs of the dark-skinned sables from the Krasnoyarsk district, Si- 

 beria, with a view to breeding sables in America, just as blue and silver foxes are now bred 

 successfully in eastern Canada. The opinion among Russian hunters and fur dealers is that 

 the sable is not a difficult animal to manage, though it is reputed very fierce, cruel, and blood- 

 thirsty. Owing to the great decrease in the number of sables captured, the price of the skin 

 has mounted very rapidly, and now ranges from $20 to $154 per skin. The Russian govern- 

 ment has become so alarmed at the rapid decrease in the numbers of sable in Siberia that it 

 has prohibited the hunting or trapping of this valuable anirr.al for three years. 



