The Wrangell sentinel., 1929-10-31
AIRPLANES USED FOR
 PROSPECTING TRIP
 ON ISKUT RIVER SLOPES
Stewart, [B. c.l News)

Albert Olsen, who have been out all summer prospecting for the Con solidated Mining & Smelling Co.,, returned Friday night, coming in over the old trail from Bowser Lake. They went in to the pros peeting ground by airplane, Will Hams and Allen being the first pas sengers taken in to the Treaty Creek and Tiegan Lake sections by Walter D. Gilbert, pilot for the Western Canada Airways, who made a number of trips into the interior back of Stewart during the summer
 On the first trip he kept at a high altitude and prospected out a route to use on his future visits, his object being to pick a route that would allow him leeway to glide to landing place on some lake in case of engine trouble.
 Neither Williams nor Allen had been into that country by air be- fore, so the old prospeetors' route by way of Meziadin and Bowser lakes, with which they were famil- far, was followed, and from Bow ser lake they went across to Treaty Creek (Twenty-Mile) by way of Scott's Pass, then turned to the west and landed on a lake at the head of Treaty Creek, which has been named Gilbert Lake in honor of the pioneer air pilot who won such popularity with passengers and public alike, during the sum mer. MT. Gilbert. it will be remem- bered, left here in September on a If e-s aving trip to take c. H. Hughes, mining engineer for the Consolidated, from Burns Lake to Vancouver to be treated for injuries received when he was mauled by a grizzly bear at Emerald Lake. Olsen joined the other two men at Gilbert Lake later on, being talk en in on one of the subsequent trips of the plane, which after the first prospecting venture was pilot ed by an air route further to the west, saving a considerable d's- tance and having lakes as safety factors on both sides.
 At the head of Gilbert Lake con- siderable clearing was done and big cache made to protect tue sup plies which were to be taken in by plane for the prospectors and the survey party under F. C. Green, who were to survey out the group of claims staked last fall to cover the discoveries made in the sum- mer by Tim Williams and Charles Knipple, who were instrumental ill getting the Consolidated interested in that section.
 Fiction Story Experiences
 Of course the prospecting party will tell nothing of what they found, and but little of their ex- periences; experiences the record ing of which could be woven into an exciting and hair-raising tale by writer whose gifts lie in that direction. They were over onto the Iskut slope, around the headwaters of the Unuk river; explored many unknown creeks and unnamed lakes and mountains. They had the usual experiences with big game, snow fields and dizzy glaciers. A prospector not of their party, told as a joke one instance illustrative of events that such men take as matter of course, and all in the days work.
 The three men, roped together, were trying to pick out a prospect ing route between Treaty Creek and Bowser river, a route that would bring these streams within ten miles of each other. One of the men fell itno a crevasse in the gla- cier they were crossing. The oth CTS held him and pulled him out. They changed their course and tried again, and yet again, and a safe means of taking that shortcut except by air, still remains to be discovered.
 They admit that they did find plenty of mineral occurrences. and some "darned good showings" which they secured for their em-