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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1928-11-01, Page 3Canada Explores Vast Interior and Taxies to Gold Fields by Air Hudson Straits Sea Route Found Navigable Into December— Indians :. Get Their Treaty Money by Plane —Forests Protected :and Maps Made North of the two Canadian. continental railway lines the land ie pra4 tidally unexplored, Indtans, a few white trappers and here and there mining camps, constitute the only in- habitants of the great mineralized area surrounding the Hudson I3ayr This territory the airplane • le now exploring. Two Viking Canadian -made sea- planes, with two pilots, two surveyor navigators, two) photographer me- chanics, a photographic officer, and Here again then, the airplane has a cook, as well as a fully equipped outfit, provisions, spare parts, cam- proven of value to Canada. It has eras, etc„ came down out of a clear shown that it will be feasible to ship sky one day toward the middle of wheat from the West via the Hudson September, when the foliage of tim- Bay .and Hudson Straits 'immediately ber far below was in colorful hue. after the harvest. And this season ,The two ships landed gracefully on results will show for' how long a Cormorant Lake, on the Hudson Bay period the Straits are open: whether Railway, north of Lake Winnipeg. they will be navigable from April 15 Within: three weeks they had com- to December, just as the Great Lakes. pleted an oblique photographic and To -day the question of electric forest type survey of 24,000 square power is one of vital interest. It miles. has been discovered on the surveys The airplane in Canada has been and forestry patrols in northern On - used chiefly in remote regions. Forest tario and Quebec that there is an - fire prevention and reconnaissance abundance of water power awaiting service; photography of areas as yet those who care to harness it. ManY unmaped; sketching of vast forest enterprising concerns have gone regions to determine the nature of north, and by means of airplanes, sometimes those of the Government, have surveyed and photographed power sites, at which they are build- ing huge dams and power houses for the transmission of rower to more populated regions. The time-honored custom of paying treaty money to the Indian tribes living in northern Manitoba and around James Baa+ is now done by airplane. No longer do the Indian aa -gents set out for a trip lasting sev- trans- have been found by the air patrol to have too fast a current for freez- ing over, and were entirely free of ice ui to December 10. That is as, 1on gee the Great Lakes, nearly 1500 miles farther south are open. Oa. that day in December a huge ice pan, floating clown from Fox Channel, blocked the entrance to the Straits from Nottingham Island to• the north- ern mainland. Shipping Wheat After Harvest timber growth; surveying of power sites; transportation of supplies to remote districts—these are some of the uses of the airplane in the Do- minion. The Royal Canadian Air Force in conjunction with the Ontario Pro- vincial Air Force have kept more than 165,000,000 acres of virgin forest under constant surveillance in the summer and late autumn when for- est fires are most menacing. Sea - FIVE MILES A MINUTE D'Arcy Greig of the Royal Flying Corps, who attained a speed. of 300 miles an hour in a flying -boat trial flight. planes are used `throughout. The eral months to pay to the first in- who are about tok pre-empt the haunts 'far to the southwest for the observers country which. these airmen watch habitants of Canada their rightful of bruin in the Western islands. Es to be sure as to its nature. over abounds in lakes and rivers treaty money No longer is canoe pecially is this true of Kodiak Islands, MAY HAVE BEEN FLIGHT'S END making ideal landing fields. Levis tha ol+ the Clouds Reaches La kell►li orgg; Goal .. .fte fr,OQOiMile Flight af•••'. • THRONGS CHEER GRAF ZEPPELIN ON ARRIVAL AFTER LONG'OCEAN COYAGE Flying smoothly despite a badly torn navigating fin, the giant dirigible Graf Zeppelin dipped to earth at Lakehurst, New Jersey, at 5.30 Monday (Oct. 15th)- afternoon, ending the longest non-stop flight in the world's history. The leviathan of the clouds, with •20 passengers and a crew of 40 aboard had been 111% hours in the air since leaving Thursday (Oct. llth), and had covered approximately 6,000 miles in its efforts to avoid storm zones on the Atlantic. The picture is a striking photograph of the dirigible taken as. it passed over New York where whistles blew and flags flew to` welcome the voyagers of the air. mote places prospecting parties fully,, Light Indicates equipped with camp, food and min- 1dIl U ing necessities to investigate pos-I MacDonald Fell - sibilities. I` That area which is known . as the Close to Goal night. MacDonald's plane might have Great Pre -Cambrian Shield, covering been at either of the two places at the nearly two-thirds of Canada, and; I times mentioned. He took off from which investigation has shown to- be Liner Passengers Saw' Flam- Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, Wed- ----- heavily mineralized, altliougll duly a, ing Object Drop Into Sea ' 1nesday noon - 150• Miles Off Irish will bc' rapidly developed by the use I Coast of the airplane. Iii fact, authorities London.—The possibility that on mining state that with the use of Lieutenant Commander " M. C. Mae - the airplane, the Canadian prospec- Briton who was tor should be able to do more in the Donald, young at - next five years than he has done in tempting to fly from Newfoundland to tte past 50 years.—By J. M. in The England, perished when only 150 Christian Science Monitor.mules front the Irish coast was mai- m dated by passengers and crew of the sighting of "a light resembling an ex- plosion"—front the steamer Mirach, which was several hundred miles fur- ther west, at 11.30 o'clock Wednesday tenth of it has as yet been touched and more than' half not yet explored Stock Farms Will Oust Canadian Pacific liner Montclaire, which arrived in Liverpool Sunday. Brown Bears in Alaska 1 They said that at 6.15 p.m., Thursday, Anchorage, Alaska.—Civflization is , they had seen "a light drop from the reaching toward the wide-open spaces sky leaving a trail of flame behind it." of Alaska, and the 0 big. brown grit lY4 . The position of the Montclaire at, bear, which furnishes amusement forthe time was 150 miles west of Tory hunters, must give way before an Ijsland, off the northwest coast of advancing array of live stock raisers •i"County Donegal. The light was too Flying Boats The Ontario Provincial Air Force operates 22 seaplanes. Twelve of these are large H. S. -2L flying boats, used principally to transport men and equipment to the scene of a fire. The other 10 planes are light De i:iaviland Moth scout seaplanes, used In detecting work. Photography and sketch work is being carried out in these same lit- tle-known regions. Maps have to be made. Formerly these were done under- the most hazardous conditions. Canoe was the only means of getting into the country, each of the innum- ests the vast •use to which the• plane • arable lakes had to be circled, port could be put in the northland. With ages had to be made, carrying camp the iush to the newly discovered gold equipment and instruments. To -day, Reids of Red Lake in northern On the airman flies 5000 feet high above tario in the spring of 1926, three the region he is to photograph,.the I commercial air transport companies photographer takes pictures so that went in. One hundred and twenty when placed together they form a miles separated the gold strike from mosaic which allows the draftsman; Hudson, the nearest railway point. It, took something like a week or 10 days to get in through the snow and spring slush by dog team and a -foot. Canoes were impossible. The air- plane did the trip in a little better connecting the Canadian West has than an hour, even the old machines been advocated via the Hudson Bay making it in two hours. They charg- and Hudson Straits to the Atlantic ed $200 a passenger, and carried in 'Ocean. A railway was partly con- the season alone nearly 500 passeng- •strutted to Port Nelson, It is, being ers and about 11 tons of freight at ;$1 run to Fort Churchill, both points on a pound. Another gold field in Quebec, open• •ecl about the same time, called for an air service front Haileybury, Ont., to Rouyn, Que. One flying boat car- ried 576 passengers, 12 tons of freight and 4000 letters in 146 hiurs flying time, before a railway was run into Rouyn. Better machines- in the field were seen in 1927, and dant in prices, thus fleet of seven planes, with pilots, :more business. One company, West - Mechanics, radio operators, housing ern Canada Airways, which also ran materials and supplies, to last for 18' planes into the newly discovered months Was sent north last sumlter by the Canadian Government. ' And daily, for the -past year, the towering cliffs and the snowbound regions just below the Arctic Circle, have wit - tweeted the passage of six Fokker planes and one' light De Haviland Moth scout plane after canoe packed with camp equip much of which is taken up under graz- went and provisions to last such a ing and homestead lease applications. trip. Now the natives of the conn About 600 families will live there With - try see a graceful bird far abovz their in a few years. When it comes to a heads gradually come closer, and the question of a bear or a sheep taking roar of engines tells them it is the up room on Kodiak Island, the pros white man with their annual heti- pective farmers are for the sheep.• tage. Now the seaplanes of the fores- try service come swooping down each autumn on 'lakes and rivers, hun- dreds of miles beyond the railway and civilization, to bring the Indians what the Great Whitt Queen had promised them 50 or more years ago. To the Gold Fields It was these government air serv- ices that showed commercial inter - 'accurately to draw his maps, and trained men record the type of for- est growth and physical features. Studied Sea Route For many years a new sea route :the Hudson Bay in Manitoba territory, 'Frei the latter the grain freighters will leave for Europe. It was believed that the Hudson Straits were frozen solid most of the year, or otherwise were so blockaded with icebergs as to be navigable for only a short time. • To discover at first hand just what the conditions ,are on this new route to Europe, a mining areas of northern Manitoba, and in addition did, some special transportation woke, carried 100 pas- sengers ,in 1927, transported 145 tons of freight and express and flew a total of 154,000 miles. With these facts to base their theories on ,two mining compani5s Working trom three bases, one at this year formed air fleets with Nottingham Island, in 'the mouth bt which to convey their own prospec-' the I•Iudson. Bay, where It joins the tors and supplies' to possible loca: traits; another halfway to the At- tions. Both ,have their headquarters iantic on Quebec territory, and the in Toronto, their bases at The Pas third at the northern extremity of Manitoba, and at Hudson, Ontario. Labrador, the .expedition had cover- From these 'points they convey linen - ed the Hudson Straits north, eaat and tiers and directors to, olefins which West, hi a daily patrol of 100 miles, are allowing possibilities, flying these TheStraitsare .front 50 to 100 ninon mon in comfortable, heated cabin to width and 450 MHOS long, They plans, They Will transport to 4 From this position and the time of the incident the M•ontclare passengers may well have witnessed the ending of MacDonald's single-handed attempt to cross the Atlantic in a light plane. On 'the other hand, there is the report of a somewhat similar occurrence—the M sax t,�z Mother (at bedtime): "Don't mum- ble your prayers,. Helen. I can't hear a word you say." Helen: "I wasn't speaking, to you; Mummy." "Have you ever wondered what you would do if you had Rothschild's income?" "No; but I've often wonder- ed what he would do if he had mine." EARL IS BRIDEGROOM The Bail of Bective, heir to Marquis of Headfort, was married at Bromp- ton Oratory io Lady Clarke, widow of Sir Rupert Clarke of Melbourne. Cold Claimed Three Tests Show Eskimos Not of Indian Blood Scion of Titled English Family and Two Companions Gave Up Hope Near Thelon River Winnipeg.—The bodies of three men, believed to be those of Jack Hornby , scion of a titled English fam- English Explorer Reveals Re- lationship With Manchuri- ans as Result of Analysis Professor R. Ruggles Gates of ily and noted Arctic explorer, and two King's College, London University, companions, who have been missing • •has just returned to England after a years,two thein far north of Canada for have been found in the barren', four months' exploration along the lands along the shore of the Thelon Mackenzie River, going as far north' River. It is not known who Hornby's, as latitude 70, where he made blood two companions were, tests among the Eskimos and Indians. Such is the story brought to W:dill- 111 tacking over his expedition with peg by a party of prospectors who the scientific editors of The London arrived at The Pas, Man., by airplane Morning Post, he said: from Fort Churchill, terminal of the i "I found that the Indians were sue Hudson Bay Railway. The discovery, fering front the most serious epidemic they relate, was made by the first of influenza they have ever had. This party of prospectors to :penetrate thisalight have complicated matters had I particular region in the Far North in,. not been able to turn it to a good twenty years, who, traveling by canoeaccount• down the Thelon River, found the "The method of blood testing Con frozen bodies wrapped in blankets and sists in taking a drop of blood from lying in the snow. - •1 the ear, and as the Indians seemed The discovery brings to a close a to think that the test was hi the search which has been in progress for, nature of a cure for influenza, I had over two years. Hornby; after coming little difficulty in performing it. In to Canada, passed his early days in , fact, many of them confessed that the wilds of northern Alberta, later they felt muck better for itl amassing a fortune at Edmonton,' "Among the Indians I tested were Alta. Prior to the fatal journey into,men and children from hall a dozen the Arctic region, he had gone from different tribes, with such picturesque Chesterfield Inlet, on Hudson Bay,' names as Dogribs, Yellow Knives, and was considered a resourceful tra-' Hairskins and Loucheux. Some of velar. the children traveled 1,000 miles for Lack of provisions is believed to be the test. the reason for his failure to return' "The results were unexpected. Tho from the northern wilds on his last! Indian tribes gave results similar to tour of exploration. Weak from hun-1 those that have been recorded for ger and numbed by the .intense cold,,other Indian tribes of North America, the three hien are believed to have while those of the Eskimos reseniblod collapsed, folded themselves in their° results that have been obtained from blankets and perished, - A NEW SALVAGE CRAFT FOR UNDERSEA RESCUES Invention of Simon Lake, Bridgeport, Coiui. A Ander tate nose permits divers to work with their base side: the sunken vessel. Inset, an bterior view. diving compartment of operations along - "Can 1 have a private bath? Yes, everyone here takes his bath privately sir, We have only one bath, but every- 1 one here takes his bath privately," Manchurians and Chinese, "From these, one could draw the tentative conclusion that the Eskimos could not have descent e , as las held by some anthropologists, front Milan ancestors, but came 'Indepond, ontly across the Bering Strait."