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Evening star., 1934-10-21


destination they saw q bicycle something they
had never seen before. They saw automobiles
and ate ice cream cones. These were novelties
to them. The airplane was not.
How important the gold hunt is can be taken
from what is going on in Nova Scotia. One of
the smallest of Canadian provinces, it is
noted mainly for its coal and steel output and
its fisheries. 1t was to prospect for gold and
other minerals that Nicholas Denys was
granted a concession in 1854 by Louis XIV OF
France.
That Is the earliest record of gold mining in
the Dominion. Today the small province has
80 gold mines either in production or course
of erection, according to the report of deputy
inspector of mines.
British Columbia, once the main Canadian
gold producer, is having a revival, with prop
critics worked many years ago put into work
once more. Here the gold is mainly placer gold.
found in stream beds.
Crude hand methods were employed by the
old-timers. Now with the extension of roads
and the use of the airplane, heavy machinery is
being shipped in by companies well fortified
with funds. Scientific methods of prospecting
are being used, so that the bed rock Of streams
can be charted for drilling purposes.
In the Yukon, which shared major gold pro-
duction with British Columbia in the past, q
whole river is being changed from its course.
Mining operations were hampered by frost in
the gold-bearing gravel, and could not be
undertaken on profitable basis using regular
thawing methods. BY diverting large part
of the Klondike River over the ground the
frost will be distracted.
From two to three years are required for the
operation, but the pot of gold will be there
when the engineers get through.
1t takes few years from the time pros
pector locates promising find to the time
when gold is shipped to the market. There is
fI1a f7no oy1d &Syv,~
nelng. The ore bodies have to be located with
diamond drills, shafts have to be sunk, ore
cleared away and the whole ore body of the
mine claim mapped out
When this has been done and the showing
is still promising, a mill is built to handle q
definite tonnage of ore per day. Then the other
machinery goes in. Finally, from the rough
rock, which Is fed into the mill and passes
through number of processes, the gold brick
Is obtained.
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shores OF Great slave Lake are Delng Staked,
and those who have had look at the old pros
pectors records have hied themselves to make
the stakes where the richest samples had been
found.
D ESEARCH has found a more accurate
~ method of discovering rich mineral finds.
It has been shown by finds made in the Great
Bear Lake and Great Slave Lake area that a
close study OF aerial photographs win lead to
mineraiZed areas.
Aerial photographs are accurate maps Of any
region. With the aid of double-mirrored in
strument known as a stereoscope, the aerial
photographs become relief maps, with the
hills and valleys come to life, with rock for
nations showing clearly as to height and width.
Biologists studying such photos can tell the
formation Of the country, can see the dykes
and faults as they run for hundreds of miles.
Alongside such geological formations ore may
be found. That happened in several cases this
year. Government engineers pointed out on
their maps made from aerial photos where
dykes and faults were located. Their sugges-
tions of possible mineral finds have proved cor
rect, and now the aerial photo is more used
with a saving in time and travel.
The latest maps, based on aerial photographs,
accompany every party into the new mining
fields today. There is little chance of becoming
lost when carrying one of these new maps,
which have on them every little lake, every
Island, every Ng-zag OF the snorenne, ana are
so detailed that number of them are necessary
for any long trip. each one overlapping the
other.
In this region of bush and lake, axes are
ringing these days, as new camps are being
opened and cabins storehouses, shafts and
bunk houses are erected. Where q claim is
proving up good, there many other prospectors
follow, and every strike soon means a new COM
munity. That again necessitates stores, barber
shops, government mining Office, post office
and gasoline depot. Soon q small town nestles
among surrounding bush. with log cabins
plentiful.
That picture repeats itself throughout the
northland, from Quebec to the Yukon. The
majority of the new camps in Northern
Ontario, where also are most Of the going
mines.
Some Of these new camps have been spotted
IN years gone by, but because of distance and
low-grade ore, were not developed. Today dis
t94sB- AssNs
Evening star., 1934-10-21
BY JAMES MONTACNES.

- HERE were 48 commercialzed gold
mining plants in operation in Canada
on July 1, 1884. When President
Roosevelt took the oath of Office in
March, 1888, there were but 28 gold
mines producing in the Dominion.
BY early 1885 there will be about 30 active gold
mines in Canada.
These figures are not those of high-pressure
stock statesmen. They were given recently by
w. A. Gordon, minister of mines for Canada.
And Mr.. Gordon explained that these figures
did not take into consideration the many small
pilot mills or projects for mill construction
that have not taken definite form. The figures
show what has happened since President Roose-
velt set the price of gold at $35 an ounce.
Fifteen new mills were brought into operation
during the first half Of 1884.
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carefully scanned, aerial photographs are being
studied. old claims are being revived. At the
big producing mines waste material and old
workings are being searched once more for
ore which is worth money now.
In Nova Scotia, Ontario, British Columbia
and the Yukon, claims and mines which could
not be proftably operated when the world price
Of gold was $20.67 an ounce are today being
investigated. re-registered, surveyed and studied
for production purposes.
IA /HERE once the prospector saw gold, but
also saw that it would take machinery to
take the gold out, he moved on to find fields
where the gold lay in streams just for the pick
ing. Now those gold outcrops which necessitated
machinery are coming into prominence Gold
at $35 an ounce makes them possibility for
profitable development.
And while the old sites are being analyzed,
new fields are being explored. Every province
of the Dominion, except little Prince Edward
Island, has its gold hunters. In the Yukon
and Northwest Territories the searchers for the
yellow metal travel In great numbers. Some
daring prospectors have cast yearning eyes
toward the islands of the Arctic Archipelago,
where under all geological rules the great min
eral shield which covers Canada should extend.
No clew is left unturned. Take the recent
strike on Great Slave Lake as example Of this
thorough search for gold. Great Slave Lake
lies just in the Northwest Territories about 500
miles north Of Edmonton, the nearest city. Fur
posts have been there for many years, its shores
and waters have been well Travelled, yet gold
in big quantities was staked there just last
Summer.
Gold has been known to be there in small
quantities in the past. But an old Englishman,
named Hornby, died east Of the lake a few
years ago, with two young companions. Starva-
ton was said to be the cause of death. but
it need not have been. according to records
which were found in the cabin.
Hornby had been prospector as well as q
man who liked to live far from civilization. He
had found gold in rich quantities on the shores
Of Great Slave Lake, but. so goes the story, he
did not want to see the country swarming with
mining men, mining camps and the subsequent
civilization. He did not want it for the sake
Of the Indians nor for what 1t would do for the
country.
So he kept his samples and his finds a secret
Now that the records have been found, the
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Probably at nd time in
Canadian history have
there been 50 many pros
pectors, geologists and
mining engineers out in
the field as during the
1894 Summer. Gold has
been their main mission,
and it did not matter
whether they found II on
the Atlantic Coast, the
Pacific Coast or the Arc
tic Coast. Right across
Canada gold is being
hunted the year round.
The reason-gold at $35
an ounce.
MuSty files are being
paved through, old min
ing reports ere being
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tance has diminished and it pays to
distant for even the early pros
pectors are being opened now, all
requiring air transport.
And while talking of air trans
port, there would be little aviation
in the Dominion if it were not for
the gold mines as well as the prus-
poets of new gold finds. Intefefty
services are few in the Dominion,
SO the aerial operators fly the bush,
land on unnamed, though nowadays
often mapped, lakes.
FREIGHT in ton quantities is car
] ried by air, the assortment rang
ing all the way from human passen-
gers to heavy machinery to be as
sembled at the distant mining camp.
Food. supplies. dynamite. machinery,
gasoline, bags of ore these are
some of the items carried by the
aerial express which Is playing a
big part in the development of the
new gold mines. 1t will be a great
surprise If 1894 is not the best year
the air operators have had since
commercial aviation became popu-
lar in Canada.
So weu is the airplane known in
the north country that when a group
of Indian children in Northern On
tariO were flown in to Sioux I0Ok-
out, the nearest town, they fell
asleep as soon as they got in the
plane. But when they came to their
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shores of Great Slave Lake are being staked,
and those who have had look at the old pros
pector's records have hied themselves to make
the stakes where the richest samples had been
found
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routine which Cayenne has long since accented
as inevitable. No one but myself looked I'm In
notlce a two-wheeed cart, drawn by four con-
Vcts, which was bearing a crude new coffin
aiohg the street But / decided to follow this
Aiormai funeral TO see where it would lead
II ieo straight to one of the most terrible
FEATURES OF Guiana-"the bamboos"-a few
square rods Of ground surrounded by thjckets
VI taH cane, the convicts burial place 1 call
It most terrible" not because it is as sicken-
ing as the barbarous conditions from which
death releases the convicts but because in one
shocking scene 1t sums up and symbolizes the
whole inhuman system
In this small plot probably 10 900 men have
been buried since 1860. though the area is not
sufficient to contain 200 graves Space is un-
limited in Guiana but even So the same ground
is used over and over again. Methodicaly and
grlmly the burrows Of fresh EARTH turned up
beside the old graves, move back and forth
across the cemetery, the bones of previous
burials being dug up and burned to make room
Tor the newcomers. One hundred and forty
times in 10 years this ghoulish eviction has
been repeated.
the morning of my visit they had II graves
ready. The bones and skulls of IL disinterred
dead were piled at one side, to be carted to the
fire. The new cofin which had drawn me there
was dumped into the nearest hole earth piled
on and a wooden stake marked with the con-
funeral ceremony.
Nothing saw in Guiana brought home to me
as forcefully as this charnel field the appalling
mortality among the convicts Fifty per cent of
each new shipment dies during its first year
dysentery, fever. tuberculosis and malnutrition.
And the succeeding years are almost as bad
For days afterward I was haunted by the pic
ture OF the line of raw graves, dug by the dozen,
and never, never enough; and by the piles of
ghastly skulls. nameleSs and forgotten long
before they died, grinning horribly at the
gravediggers If amused that perhaps the
next wholesale eviction would be to make room
for the diggers themselves.
AS / walked away, sick over what had seen,
1t took all the detachment and objectivity I
could muster to keep myself convinced that
even theoretically the imprisonment of convicts
in Guiana was fine thing for the public back
in France.
(NOTE: Merit Sunday, tphen Mr.. Halliburton
concludes his DeuiPs Island Narrative. he lpiU
tell tDhat he sdp during his four iceeks on the
Hes du Sdlut-the punishment pits, the gull
l0tine, the galley -sldpes-dnd discuss the means
and chances OF eScdpe)
(Copyrght. 1934)
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intimately and whispered, you tell
story SO convincingly." He reached out
and patted her hand where it lay on
the table, and after that they sat there
shamelessly holding hands IN front of
everybody.
He took her home alone in taxi. She
let him put his arm around her and
when he bent his lips close to her and
said, "Jean," very softly she didn't dare
move or turn her head for fear he would
stop.
1--WE been afraid of you, darling" he
continued.
II don't bite
"No-o-o, but you've been SO nice to
the customers and so cool to me-
1--WE been cool?"
you"
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old City Center
Continued from Seventh Page

conducting the ceremonies at laying this
corner stone.
Newspapers of the day.
After the exercises collation. was served
by Mr.. Leturno in the City Hail.
QUT this was a period of depression and
Andrew Jackson did not improve condi-
tions when he came into Office three years
later. The burden proved to be more than
the fraternity at that time could BEAR and the
result was that the building finally went out
of its hands, and quarters were secured else
where. Later the building became the property
Of Joseph H. Bradley, an eminent Washington
lawyer, who not only defended and secured
the acquittal of Miss Mary Harris, charged
with the killing of A. j. Burroughs a Treasury
Department clerk, back in 1865, but later
married his client
Many will recall the old Fendall Building,
which stood opposite the Masonic Temple, the
Municipal Court Building little to the south
in the same block and other buildings on this
street, no longer standing. They had little
historic value, but it does seem that the Metro
politan and First Presbyterian Churches. and
the old Masonic Hall should be permitted -
remain for all time.
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THE DRY CuILLOTINE
Continued From Fifth Page

sleep much. The stencil was nauseating the
vermin and mosquitoes swarmed forth for
their nightly feast; and the rain, beginning to
rattle on the rusted tin roof streamed through
in a score Of places. The largest stream was
right over my bed. I paced the aisle all night
between the rows of snoring murderers and
bandits, and by sun-up looked as bedraggled
the rest
At the barrack door unlocked. We
all filed out to the kitchen where we seized
tin cups, plates and spoons and received our
breakfast of coffee and bread which ate
seated on our canvas beds. Then the whistle
Evening star., 1934-10-21
But how about you?"

But how about you?"
"Me?" He was puzzled. 81 thought
you were afraid I'd take advantage of
my position and force my attentions on
you. I've hated seeing you with Gus
TONER'S"
1--we hated being with Them
Their heads were getting closer and
closer together until finally, their cheeks
touched lightly. They sat like that, ST.
lently, for long time
Darling" he said at last.
"YeS?"
Il couldn't possibly think of having
my wife entertaining customers"
She put her head on his shoulder and
reached up and kissed his chin
I've been wanting to do that for q
long time" she said.
Copyright. 1934)
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behind bars dream only of escape. But
of so prisoners uhO make a dash for
liberty, only one succeeds. The jungle,
the ocean and the guards make escape
difficult.
blew and the prisoners, still hungry, scattered
to their various daytime jobs.
The jobs are not exactly select-house boy,
scavangers, water-carriers, beasts of burden in
the lumber yards. The prison tries to occupy
every well-behaved convict in some way. But
there would not be enough work to 60 around
(for Cayenne has less than 10000 people and
is commercially dead) were it not for the
fact that good quarter of the prisoners are
always incapacitated from sickness. and an
other quarter locked up in special cells as
punishment for trying to escape.
Walking home from my barrack, along
Cayenne's mud-puddle lanes, I noticed numbers
of forlorn figures, sitting so quietly and so de-
jectedly on their wheelbarrows that the buzz
yards were flying down and stalking about
them These were the nberes, the prisoners
who had finished their prison term, but must
remain in the colony for an additional period
equal to the original sentence. They are sup
posed to develop the land. But with no state
support whatsoever-no money no tools, no
guidance-they have not driven back the jungle
one inch in 10 years. In fact, their lot is far
worse than that of the prisoners themselves
for they can exc out only the most wretched
livelihood with their wheelbarrows and cob
bling shops. Often, starving, they deliberately
commit crimes which will put them back in
the barracks where there is food and shelter
Having sampled that food and shelter, could
understand how desperate the lot of the
liberes must be, and came to feel more pity
for them than for the convictS.
A S I walked on through the shabby town,
it was rousing itself sluggishly, indiffer-
emily, for another day-a day which would
bring nothing new to break the monotonous
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with her if she tried to pull any of that
stuff on him. He'd seen it so many times
that he probably knew the whole line
himself by now. No, it had to be some
other way.
She tried telling couple of stories.
They were good stories, too, and she
thought she told them well. They all
laughed heartily, even Bill-the same
way he laughed when a customer told a
joke he had heard dozen times. She
was beginning to feel very much like
crying.
She excused herself and went into
the ladies' room. A plump fuzzy headed
blond was having a bad time with a
broken shoulder strap. She said, "HullO,
dearie," through a safety pin between
her lips She turned around and Jean
recognized Mildred, the girl whose last
name she could never remember.
"Hullo, there" she tried to make it
enthusiastic, II didn't know you were
here"
Been sittin' over behind you-say,
pin this darned thing up, will you?"
Jean went over and got the strap
pulled around tight in place. Mildred
continued:
See you've finally landed the boss"
she approved, over her shoulder. Il
never did like that De We're DAME" she
added, turning around. Then: "Say-y-
what's a matter? Dry those tears, baby.
What's he done?"
Jean dabbed at her eyes, He doesn't
even know I'm alive"
Doesn't? Say you're here with that
guy, amt you?"
"Y-yyes. But that's because Alyce Is
sick. I'm only ss-substitute.
"Y'mean to say he doesn't fall for the
goo-goo eyes? Did you tell him he was
wonderful?"
"Of course, not" she sobbed indig-
nantly Bills different. He'd be dis
gusted with that"
Don't be sap. Bills man, amt
he? Tell 'em they're wonderful and
give 'em that come-hither look an
they'll all fall for you, baby. I know.
I've seen EN-"
Jean blew her nose, hopefully, DO
you really think sop
Has it ever failed yet?" Mildred was
scornful
"No-but-"
"Well, you amt gettin' any place now,
are you? Go ahead an try it and see
what happens"
Jean washed her face in cold water
and got the redness out of her eyes.
She put little rouge and lipstick back
on and powdered her nose. When she
went back to the table heads turned
to look at her. She saw with salts
faction that all of them were not male.
That was a criterion. If the men looked
at you, you we're beautiful. II the women
looked at you, you were well dressed.
If they both looked at you, you were
all set.
The three men at the table stood up
when she approached. Before she had
a chance to sit down Bill took her arm.
Lets dance" he said.
She cuddled her head close to his
shoulder and looked up at him dreamily
from under half-closed lashes.
Il love dancing with you, Bill" she
said in an intimate tone of voice.
He didn't smile and he only said, II
like dancing with you, t0O," but there
wasn't that cold tone of politeness in
his voice.
THEY finished the dance in silence but
it seemed now as if the two of them
had melted into one and were floating
on a cloud across the floor
ho 10
Evening star., 1934-10-21
EFF going. He should have had a

and poured announcer drink from
title that Bill had put under the
Pretty soon he leaned over toward
! md started getting confidential. He
bis arm around her shoulders with
Exaggerated air of carelessness. She
+ ed to slap him, but instead she
1ully lifted the offending hand away.
shook her finger under his nose and
Naughty! Naughty"
the way home she wouldn't let
kiss her-she never did-and she
found that it was easiest to refuse
! positively when they wanted to
up to her apartment.
SATURDAY night they went to
La Phaison D'Ore with an elderly
r from Chicago and on the follow
Thursday night they went out with
buyers from Detroit. One was big
heavy and redfaced, with blus-
q, high-pressure- salesman manner.
Ees-man was small and timid, with
tile muStache under his nose. The
man was Mr.. Yaeger.
forgot the others name as soon as
heard it. She wouldn't draw him
Way.
hey went to the Four-Four Club.
had heard from one of the girls in
office that Alyce De We're was sick
hoped she croaked-and she was not
|riSed when two strange girls came
|g. The three of them went into
ladies' room as soon as they got
|e, to powder noses and paint lips
straighten stockings.
be two new girls were quite nice.
Duval was tall, straight brunei
a swagger and an extremely close
cut. Strangely. her low-cut eve
gown looked very well on her,
|ough she wore it as carelessly as
would a riding habit. Jean wondered
Bill hadn't brought her before, she
so much nicer than the would-be
II Alyce. Sally, the other girl, was
II and gray and shy. She would be
i the yes-man. Quite evidently her
IS to night clubs were few and far
Veen. She tried to act Indifferent,
her cheeks were flushed and her
DIS were never still.
he three men were standing in a
e group out in the lounge. Bill and
h-Pressure Yaeger were having an
nest discussion about something and
Y continued it as they came across
he girls.
hey were walking together, talking
ach other so that Jean had no init
ion of anything unusual beforehand.
wasn't until Bill lightly touched her
w and they all moved toward the
She looked up at him puzzled. He
walking along beside her with a
of familiar, proprietary air, still
tinuing the discussion with Yaeger,
had Pat Duval in tow.
an could feel her heart suddenly
n to beat furiously. Bill had ar
yed it! He had wanted to 60 with
1t couldn't be that he thought
Duval woman could better entertain
buyer. 1t was only last week that
had told her how satisfied he was
her, Jean.
the bar her brown eyes peered
the rim of her cocktail glass at
GER making progress with Pat Duval.
had his arm around her waist and
heard him say:
lee, baby, I haven't seen you in a
s age. How've you been, anyway"
well, honey. 1t has been a long
, hasn't it? Not since that brawl
Itlantic City," she laughed, loudly.
:, was that party?"
an brought her glass down slowly.
hat was it. Bill hadn't known Pat
Il at all. Yaeger had brought her.
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