The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1921-07-17
GOLD LURES MEN
TO NORTH AGAIN
Days Of '49 and Klondike
Revived in Rush to
Manitoba Vein
ANOTHER BIG STRIKE
Elbow Lake, 600 Miles North
of Winnipeg. IL Scene of
the Latest Rush

FROM the New York Tribune.
The Pas, Manitoba-California
days of 40 and 0ondikc scenes OF
- are being relivod in northern
Manitoba. Gald again is Turing
thousands OF adventurous souls into
the norihlnnd. They are rushing 10
the scene Of the newest Eldorado-
| Elbow Lake. $50 miles north Of The
Pas and $50 miles north of Winni.
peg with the same show Of d.
termination and the same disrcga.~
/ for hardship and danger that
marked the pilgrimagcs Of the
"forty-niners" in prairie schooncrs
and the dashcs of the mushors ny
/ dog team and snowshuc over the
/ frozen Alaskan wastes
Another gold strike" has been
made, which, according to rcports
OF prospcctors who have stakcd
their claims and returned to civili-
7ation for grub and supplies. bids
fair to give the North American
continent one OF the greatest
sources OF the precious metal with
in its confines.
Two young mon. Gordon and
Kenneth Murray, comparatively new
arrivals in the northern Manitoba
mineral belt, are responsible for tho
spectacular free gold discovery that
has attracted world wide interest
and is calling prospcctors from all
parts of the United states and Can
ada into the wilds north Of Fifty
three" The Murrays entered the
Elbow Lake district by trail before
tho spring thaw and started to work
rs soon as the winter SHOWS began
To disappear from the muskSg.
\ Big "Strikc."
In sthe latter part of May they
made their find---an outcroppinr Of
cold-laden quartz right at the
waters edge. where Grassy river
flows into Elbow Lake.
without word of intimation to
the few other prospcctors in tho dis
trict they staked their limit Of
claims and started by canoe and
trail for The Pas carrying samples
Of the ore. After they had recorded
'h"ir stakinps thcv sought an as
saycr for n test Of tho quartz they
rad brought in. No word cmanatcd
from the Dominion land office Of
tho recording OF the claims and tho
Murravs wrro tight Tipped Bat tn,
for the tactiturn prospcctors.
Boys ne told them. "vou'vc
struck il. You've found the richest
stuff I've ever seen here. Your
samples show ore that bears from
$4,000 10 100000 a ton in gold
content If the ore body Is any size
AT all you're both rich"
The Murray brothers couldn't
l. "a. ~ hp
a few friends in The Pas whore 10
stake claims to be in" on the big
strike. Then the news sproad like
wildfirc and within fcw hours this
little frontier town was I'm n furry
of excitement
Before night had fallen score OF
prospectors were on their way 10
Elbow Lake. on foot, by canoe and
by gasoline "jgeer" up the Hud-
sons Bay railway the gold seekers
started for the scene OF tiies strike.
There is no direct trail, either land
or water, to the fold Tho pros
p"ctors must travel fuilv 200 miles
by roundabout routes 10 reach their
goal which means n "trip Of from
four to six days.
Women IN Rush.
Then on June II the story of the
new gold find went over the wires
10 the outside world. within two
days this little town Of 1900 began
To acquire n transient population
that has swellcd daily sinc,,. Now
every arrival Of the "Tamarack
tho every hcr-day train over tho
Canadian National railway from
Winnipeg and other points in Mani
toha, means another hundred or Two
gold seekers. They are not all men.
either. Several women already have
passed through The Pas on their
way into the muskeg wastes of the
u"rthland In quest Of gold and ready
for revival ~ the mining camp
dance halls.
The Murravg are not tho only
pr7spcctors 10 find gold sine. tho
first discovery WIS made ana tho.
rush started. Already half a dozen
ether strikes have been reported.
como fYlt from tba ss,p. 80 a..