The Wrangell sentinel., 1933-08-18
LOVETT ON WAY FROM MINING
 EXPEDITION

ana LlaTu DTlnS WOTu IudI James Lovett, well-known Wrangellite who accompanied Jules Sequin on prospecting trip into the Lizard, is returning to Wrangell via Dease Lake and Telegraph Creek, after wintering at Sayer's Creek. The re- port states that he frosted his feet badly during the winter, and was unable to accompany his two part ners, Ole Larson and Jules Sequin, to the head of the South Nahani River.
 0ldtimer's Map For Guide
 Lovett left Wrangell in August, 1892. in company with Sequin, ent route to Dease Lake where an air plane was to meet them and trans port them to their destination. Their knowledge of the country was vague, their only guide being a map which Sequin is said to have obtained from Engineer" Burns, an oldtime Klon- diker who stampeded to the Fort Norman oil strike in 1921 and re- turned to the coast by way of the Liard. Dease and Stikine rivers
 Pay Found On Rimrock
 On the trip across the Rockies so the story goes, Burns tested the rimrock on a small tributary of the Nahani and found pay-something like SS5 in coarse gold for a few hours work with a pan. Being short of food he pushed west, rafting rivers as he came to them. In cross ing Coal River he upset his raft and lost what few personal effects he had which consisted of a rifle, axe and theodolite. Swimming ashore he was later picked up by a band of Indians bound for Liard Post.
 Dog Hero Given Insignia
 The following spring found Burns in Wrangell accompanied by his dog, Peary, awaiting the first trip of the Hazel B. He was a massive figure of man, quite elderly, with long, heavy beard and was greet ed by a number of oldtimers who re- membered him from the Klondike days The dog he had with him wore collar to which was attached the insignia of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police, said to have been mark of honor for saving a policeman's life.
 Burns left for Telegraph Creek on the first boat and returned to Wran- gell mmediately-without the dog. The Indian dogs had killed Peary. The old prospector appeared to be heartbroken; he took steamer north and was heard of, from time to time, in Whitehorse. Dawson and other interior camps. It was thought that he had started back to the Nahani by some other route.
 Lovett Joins Expedition
 A year or two ago Burns died in Prince Rupert leaving a map show ing the location of his gold strike with Jules Sequin, former partner and benefactor. Sequin immediately organized a small pool to finance the search for the mine, and Lov- cit, who had worked for Sequin in the Fraser River country, was in- yited to accompany the expedition.
 Sequin's map and the description of the country indicate that Burns made his strike on the Caribou branch of the Nahani, well toward the headwaters This would be about on course which man would follow in travelling from Fort Nor man to Lizard Post It was thought to be just inside the boundary of the Northwest Territories.
 Expert Woodsman
 Burns, who originally hailed from Australia, was known as an ex- pert miner and woodsman and was capable of orientating himself by observations with his theodolite. He often lived on the country for weeks at a time and is said to have killed moose. tanned the hide and made it into clothing without interrupting his journey. Deprived of matches, he frequently went marching through the wilderness with a birchbark vessel filled with punk which he kept smoldering to light his fires.
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 Judge George Ernest Alexander,