The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-10-25
SEND BALLOON
TO FIND BALLOON
Continued from Page One.

iIOm age O0e-
H. Is ascertained. I will send out a well
equipped search and relief party from
me me nearest available point. The expedi-
VIII be dispatched from several points.
Elaborate Plans.
What ] propose TO do In Ottawa now
Is TO compile route map and II pos
sible. establish the definite drift OF the
missing balloon. ] am sending out noti-
itlcation to the papers of Canada ask
ing every one who has seen any balloon
70 wire at my expense the day. the hour.
the direction and the color OF the bal
loon and the place at which 1t was seen.
j VIII also get reports which NAV be
sent In to the Aero Club of America at
New York or to tho Aero Club of ST
Louis. will have from the crews of the
reported balloons statement OF their ex-
act route.
with the aid Of ore of the Canadian
government geographers I will plot the
routes OF the balloons which have re-
ported and indicate on the same map all
the places at which balloons have been
seen In the air by individuals Many Of
these should be on the routes which re-
ported balloons have followed, When
there are reports from points off one Of
these known routes. we win be rea sonably
certain that it is the America H. which
has been seen. These reports should give
us the direction the missing balloon has
taken and II is thus we will send search
Ing parties. II ,Hawley and Post do not
turn up safely.
1T may take one or two days to col
lect enough Information 10 warrant the
sending out Of parties"
Tonight marked the end of week
since The big balloon started. Four days
ago, at the latest. IT is estimated gas
northeast winds must have lost Its
potency.
May Have Fallen in Lake.
hot
nauts may have fallen into one OF the
great lakes or even passed beyond the
province OF Quebec TO the Atlantic and
been lost Is realized
But the strong probability tonight was
held to be that they have landed in one
OF two immense tracts OF Canadian
wilderness. One OF these lies between
Lake Huron and Hudson bay. The other
comprises a triangle in eastern Quebec,
thousands OF soua0e miles in extent,
formed by the Quebec e. Lake st. John
Lawrence. Experts comforting here ex-
pressed the opinion that tho missing bal
loonists would eventually turn up safely.
II they have fair skill in using what op-
sents and are uninjured, The balloons
carried firearms and four days provi
Sions.
The part OF Canada to the south and
east OF Hudson bay, where II Is thought
the America III. may have landed. is
thorough wilderness and progress through
II would be most difficult. But II is
good game country The streams and
the lakes are full OF fish. upon which the
aeronauts would be able to live until they
reached an Indian camp, or met fur
trapper's party II either or both OF them
We're seriously Injured in descending.
their chances OF getting out would be
greatly reduced. Many trapping parties.
however. are going in. There are many
lumber cruisers in these woods
There are mining explorers and fair
scattering of Indians throughout the re-
gion.
Figuring on Chances.
There is A spirit Of friendship among
the travellers In northern Canada. both
Indians and white. which would assure
Hawley and Post hearty welcome by
any party they might meet. Many OF
the ballons have descended within
striking distance OF construction camps
along the National Transcontinentai rail-
way, which is being driven across north
ern Ontario and Quebec. II the America
IL succeeded in passing this line and
landed two or three hundred. miles to the
north they might be safe and comfort
able and still not be heard from for a