Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-03-07
GOLD RUSH RIVALS
EXCITEMENT OF '49.
Prospeetors With Dog Teams
Join in Stampede to Ca
madam Field.
BY PAUL READING.


RED LAKE. Ontario. February 81
CBy dog team to Hudson).-A new
gold camp Is a gamble. but potential
fortunes already have been made In
Red Lake and II offers a breadth of
possibilities that is intriguing the
Vaccinations of the whole North
country. Picturesque men with
weathered faces and nlackinaw shirts
are arriving in steady stream to
stake their chances on the Judgment
that has been acquired in half a score
| Of previous gold camps. They are
I travelled crew and where a year ago
YOU would have encountered only
the odd trapper or fur trader today
stories of the Yukon, the barren
lands. Nevada and California can be
picked up at first hand. In every
direction they are hewing and
erecting claim stakes, conJurfng the
while the hope that under the snow
that lies 4 feet deep lies gold for the
taking.
Some come provtsioned to stay In
over the break up. In order that they
may have first choice OF the new
areas to be prospected then. Others
make a flying trip of IT, stake. record
and depart. A few OF them are new
at the game, others have devoted
years to 1t, but enthusiasm inspires
them all.
Rush Has Its Victims.
The rush has not been without It's
victims. At half the camping places
along the trail from Hudson the
frozen carcassee of sleigh dogs lie
rigid in the snow where they died Of
cold and hunger and at the Howey
syndicate camp John Hammell. chair.
man of the syndicate, is nursing half
dozen unhappy huskies whose
shoulders are raw with collar gals.
The Red Lake Humane Society. he
calls the row of dog kennels where
the sick dogs are quartered and stern
discipline is melted out to the dog
musher who i'll uses his team. Most
Of these poor brutes will not be fit
for work again this Winter and we
are short of dog feed. but I haven't
the heart to shoot them. They have
earned what care we can give them.
Mr.. Hammell remarked as he ex-
hibited his dog hospital.
Spring Will bring softer conditions
and softer men,. but at present the
sourdough is having his innings.
When the ice goes out Red Lake
will offer the attractions of sum
mer resort, including such fishing
A 3O-pound trout was part of
catch hauled through the ice yester-
day. But 1t is a bigger game than
fishing that occupies the men here
now and they are playing II daunt-
lessly.
Crux is Passed.
The new camp has passed a crux
in it's history. Surface sampling on
the Howey Red Lake Syndicate prop
critics was complete today. Douglas
r. Wright chief geologist of the
Dome mines who has been here for
over a month conducting an examl-
nation of these claims, goes out by
dog team tomorrow to make his re-
port. and with him goes this dis
patch.
The ASSAYS have been kept a, strict
secret, but IT is safe to state that
they have exceeded all expectations.
At least. it is significant that three
diamond drills have been ordered to
carry out deep sampling on the
Howey Syndicate properties. Inc
McIntyre mines. holding the ad-
Joining ella inns to the west. are bring
ing in two other drills.
4 road Is now being cut from here
TO Lac Seul. and the drilling ma
chinery and much needed supplies
will come In by horse transport be-
fore breakup. Food is not plentiful.
DOG feed. except for small catches
Of fresh fish. is practically unohtaln-
able and prices are high. 1t costs
between 80 and so cents pound to
bring goods In from Hudson by dog
team. the only available means at
present. and supplies shipped In by
water last Summer are at premium.
Flour is $14 a hundred. sugar from
sos TO S35, beans 500, bacon costs
sl25 a pound here, butter $l.5O, tea
x1.35 and bareback biscuits are not
to be secured at three pounds Tor
, dollar. The supply of condensed
milk is running low. The scarcity OF
dog feed is the most serious problem
for the prospectors. and some OF them
are pulling out early in order to save
their teams from hunger. AT one
Camp | visited today the dogs
dwindling ration was being supple
mented with wheat -four.
Crowds Stul Coming.
The influx of prOspeCtOrs. however.
continues steadily and stalking goes
on apace To-day afforded an Illus
tration of the intensity OF the. rush.
This morning 7 made tour of the
the rock formation on which the
Hovev claims are situated extends.
At noon | passed over some open
ground and this evening | learned
that stakes had since been planted
half a mile beyond It,
One of the latest arrivals Is j. Pot
vain. a lumberman from the Ottawa
River Valley. who pulled his own
tobogean 1870 miles from Hudson In
ak DAYS, staked five claims today ana
req ched camp at o'clock TINS eve
/ ming lie had been on the tran at
! o'clock every morning and over
taken a good many dog teams on the
way. but he said he was not tired
The mining recorder. H.: r. Holland,
and T. A. Macarthur. inspector ot
mining recorders offices. VINO came
with him to open the new mining
J,xision have been deluged with work
in the four days since their arrival.
They have recorded 100 claims ana
many other applications are waiting
No one knows how many
FIoored With Gold.
|, Nature has worked on large scale
around Red Lake. over the ridge
from this camp are a series of Eashes
hewn with the pick through frozen
New Ontario cay. "A casual eye ilsht
mistake them for the trenches of
military training camp, but they are
1oored with gold. Beneath them.
like the back of a buried serpent
runs a sinuous dyke of quartz, the
Howey vein. To the naked eye it re-
,veals, little. but a pocket lens shows
much of it to he literally peppered
with gold and auriferous tellurides.
walked along 60-foot trench
athwart the vein and hacked off sam
pies from end to end OF it. all OF them
bearing free gold. Nearly a mile to
the southwest w. Cochenour, VINO
staked there last September. showed
me another section Of the sameland,
md four miles northeast there are