The Nome nugget., 1932-12-10
VALUABLE
 CARGO OF FOX SKINS
ARCTIC TRaPPERs BIlING
 SOUTH RICH FUR CARGO
PARTNERS SPEND FOUR YEARS
 IN CANADIAN ARCTIC
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 The little sailing schooner "chi- nook" auxiliary powered by a 20 Horsepower semi-diesei engine. ar rived at the Standard oil Company dock in Kodiak, September 10th. after an uneventful trip from Rich ardson's Islands on the north shore of Coronation Gulf. 1000 miles to the eastward of Point Barrow.
 The little 55 foot vessel flying the flag of Great Britain and en- route to Vancouver, B. C.. was on her first trip to the outside after spending four years in the ice of -the Canadian Arctic. where she was used as base camp for her own CTS, Messrs. McLelland and Leon- ard, who were engaged in trapping in that district.
 A valuable cargo of white foy skins was aboard and it was the intention of MT. McLelland who Is enroute to his home in Scotland, to take these skins to Europe where he will dispose of them either on the fur markets of London or Der lin.
 After leaving Herschell Island, her last port of call, the little vessel proceeded by easy stages via the usual steamship route di- rect to Kodiak, where it was ne cessary to replenish their supply of fuel and lubricating oil at the Standard oil plant at that place. And incidentally while Kodiak-was their first American port of call, it was also the largest town visited by either of the owners in the past four years.
 In relating some of their exper- fences, MT. McLelland also stated a number of interesting facts re- garding that locality in general. Contrary to existing beliefs, and according to statements as made by both of these gentlemen, white men are not wanted in this dis trict, and very powerful interests are exerting every efforts to keep this trappers paradise for the natives only, and in addition to this and due to the fact that existing Canadian laws hold in reserve hundreds of miles of coast line on the mainland proper as a reserve where only natives may trap, it makes it extremely diff cult for the white man engaged in the business of trapping.
 Only certain islands not within the reserve and the frozen waters of the Canadian Arctic may be trapped by white men. As an H. lustration MT. Lelland stated that for the past four years the aver age catch of the individual native in Banks Land has averaged from three to four hundred white fox skins apiece, and in this area alone white man cannot set a trap Or shoot game. Questioned at this point as to the general condition of the natives MT. McLel land stated that they are in very good condition, so much so, in fact, that they are in better gen. eral condition than millions o1 whites elsewhere.
 In carrying on their business of trapping, most of which is done on the ice of the Arctic seas, Messrs. McLelland and Leonard each ran a trap line one hundred and fifty miles in length, using the sChinook'' as a base camp. Tn this connection it might be stated that it is impossible to float g ship on the beach at high tide in Coronation Gulf, due to the lack of tide in this locality. A rise and fall of tide of only six inches being recorded in these waters which of course makes 1t impos sible to float vessel on the beach on a high tide as is the case where normal tide conditions pre- vail, On each trap line from si, to ten out camps are established construction is of snow house. ,rith +en4 nftched inside whic1