APPENDIX B. 
REPORT OF J. G. PARKE, NOVEMBER 12, 1859. J 
United States Boundary Survey, Colville Depot, 
Washington Territory, November 1°2, 1859. 
Sir: I have the honor respectfully to submit the following report 
of the progress made during the past season in the survey of the forty- 
ninth parallel by the several parties of the United States commission: 
The organization of the parties throughout the greater part of the 
season has been as follows: Two astronomical parties, one surveying 
party, one reconnoissance party. 
Mr. G. Clinton Gardner, assistant astronomer and surveyor, in 
charge of an astronomical party; Professor Nooney, assistant. 
Mr. Joseph S. Harris, in charge of second astronomical party; Mr. 
Hudson, assistant. 
Mr. Charles T. Gardner, in charge of the surveying party. 
Mr. H. Custer, in charge of the reconnoissance party. 
Mr. J. Nevin King, in charge of Chilowe}^uck depot, on Fraser rive) 
ind forwarding supplies to the parties in the field. 
Dr. C. B. R. Kennerly, in charge of depot, Chiloweyuck lake, ii 
addition to his duties as surgeon and naturalist. 
Mr. George Gibbs, in addition to the geological reconnoissance, had 
charge of a party engaged in opening a trail through from the Skagit 
valley to the Similkameen. 
Mr. R. V. Peabody, in charge of the subsistence and transportation 
for the parties to the eastward of the lake depot. 
Mr. Major assisted in the computations at the astronomical stations. 
The reconnoissance at the close of the last season extended as far 
east as the valley of the Skagit, and the astronomical observations nec- 
essary for marking the three points of the parallel in the valley of the 
Chiloweyuck were completed. On taking the field the present sea- 
son, the first object was to complete the measurements and marking 
the parallel at these three stations, Tummeahai, Chiloweyuck lake, 
and Chuch-che-hum. Then make reconnoissance for the location of 
astronomical stations and the opening of trails in advance of the 
parties occupying these stations. 
The first party, under the charge of Mr. G. C. Gardner, left Camp 
Simiahmoo for the Chiloweyuck depot on the eighteenth day of April. 
J Kepriiued from Senate Ex. Doc. No. 16, 36th Cong., 1st sess., pp. 2-7. 
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