Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-24
GOLD PROSPECTORS
AIDED BY PLANES
Flying Into UnexpIored North
ern Territory Now Com
mon Occurrence.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
TORONTO. August 24.-Canada's
mining developments leads her pros
| pectors ever northward. From Toronto.
| Winnipeg and Montreal the trains car
ry the gold seekers in one night to the
center of the mining district. At Hud-
son and Sioux Lookout in Ontario and
| The Pas in Manitoba airplanes and
| canoes stand ready to rush them north
| ward into a wilderness country OF I'M
known wealth. There the hunt for gold,
copper, silver, nickel, zinc and other
minerals is on. The trail by land and
air leads northward to the Hudson Bay
and territory to the immediate north in
the Arctic Circle.
The last untouched eXpanSe presents
the final struggle that man must make
against the UNEMPLOYED metal mines on
| this continent.
Where the fur trader and the trapper
| have long lived the inroads of civiliZa-
ton are steadily forging ahead. No
longer confined to the slow progress OF
canoe or small trading schooner on the
! larger rivers, the modern pioneers go
| northward by air, accompanied by the
| latest inventions to help them WreSt
| fortunes from the bush-covered rock
| land, and farther north from the bare
rock which stretches in rolling plateauS
to the Arctic Ocean.
Government Aids Pioneers.
Whom do we find inhabiting that
| from the tranScontinental railroad TO
! within 200 miles of the lower part OF
Hudson Bay, known as James Bay, still
within easy reach of civilization. are
settlers, modern homesteaders. Helped
by the Ontario government. these pio-
neerS are cultivating a rich clay belt
between 400 and 500 miles to the north
of Toronto. Often cabins are built and
the land partly cleared before the set
tiers 90 in, an inducement to promote
the settlement of a rich, but northerniy
territory. Motor roads and railroads
are steadily reaching out INTO the
region. .,.o,
pioneers and steadily northWard 10 the
| Arctic Circle prospectors, biologists ana
engineers employed by mining synoi-
| Gates are rushing in hundreds. Ma
| chinery and supplies of the latest type
are at their disposal, for the sour
dough" of the present day has to cope
with as much competition as manu-
facturers in highly industrial centers.
Use Planes as Freighters.
Winter and Summer make no Diff
| ference to these modern proSpeectoTS.
| Tents and log cabins form their dwell
| ings throughout the year. Most OF the
| accessories Of modern civilization are
available to them through aerial
| freighters. They lack entertainment as
practiced in the cities. But In TINS
| northland other entertainment, other
| recreations, are found. UnhShed lakes
galore are at hand in Summer, while in
Winter dog teams bring eXhilaratioh
and sport to the small mining settle
| ments. Dogs are the pets OF every
| camp. Hockey cushions are found mere:
though the camp may be hundreds OF
| miles from q town. There is plenty OF
work for all, whether in Summer, when
| the air is dark with black flies. or in
| Winter, when the thermometer registers
| 40 degrees below zero.
Natives mingle with white men.
| South of James Bay live Indians; Eskl-
mos to the north. The latter live VIZ
tually on the country. They eat seal,
porpoiSe and other fish. The Eskimo
likes his tea and tobacco. In Summer
their living quarters consist of ordinary
canvas tents. In Winter the igloo be-
comes the home of the Eskimo; he
has three or four in Winter, for they
! become cold when the walls are ice
| coated inside, due to the melting OF the
snow by body heat The Indians prefer
| tents and log CABINS Tor their dwellings,.
Indians Trap Beaver.
They trap beaver. Only Indians are
accorded that privilege. No white man
may trap the beaver. This is a govern
ment regulation. Fur trading and
trapping and handy man at trading
stores constitute the main occupations
of the Indians. They catch otter, mar
ten, fisher annd fox in the lower part of
the Hudson Bay region. These animals
are trapped only by residents who are
licensed. Non-reSidents are not granted
licenses. This is for the preservation
of the wild life of those barren dis
trictS.
All this vast space stretching over
1000 miles comes under the supervision
of the provincial governments of Que
bee, Ontario. Manitoba, Saskatchewan
and Alberta, while north of the sixtieth
parallel of latitude, which divides the
prairie provinces from Northwest Ter
ritories, the Dominion government
holds sway as far north as the Pole.
What sort of land is that that forms
that last frontier? That question is
always asked of those who have just
returned from up north" And always
comes the same onswer, water, more
water and still more water, with BUSH
AdAAu SuIIAAS uP "AAoe "ouiN DC GA ALI
menSe sea. And north of So it Is rock,
more rock and still more rock, without
sign of tree or BUSH"
May Be Land Of Fortune.
Will this vast land radiating from
Hudson Bay come to life under its
trees, its scrub, its rock, its frost and
it's seeping muskeg as the richest min
eral area ever discovered? That is what
the financiers. engineers and prospec-
tors of Canada are anxious to know.
VIII that region of lake, water and
rock left untouched following the gla-
cial retreat enrich the men who are its
pioneers today?
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