The Bayfield Bulletin, 1964-09-02, Page 8BUSHY
TALES
by
ART ELLIOTT
Page 8—Bayfield Bulletin—Wednesday, Sept. 2, 1964 SIPHT-SEEING QUIZ
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Bush travel nowadays is an
incongruously mixed-up affair.
On the way to a prospecting
job in Canada's remote north-
ern areas, a crew might quite
normally travel by a combina-
tion of bus, train, taxi, aircraft,
canoe, raft and on fool In
recent years the helicopter has
been added to the list and ow-
ing to its special capabilities.
plays an important part in the
ceaseless search for mineral de-
posits.
A few years back when Alex
Mathias and I were crewed up
on a prospecting project in
N'orthwest Ontario not far
from the Manitoba border, we
learned how prospecting is be-
ing revolutionized by the heli-
copter.
Some Tab
We were one of two crews
operating under direction from
a base unit made up of two
geologists, a ge3physicist, an
assistant and a conk, plus a
helicopter, pilot and mechanic.
The tab for the helicopter ran
about $10.000 per month, as
closely as I could judge, and
how it could be worth this
much to anyone is of course
the whole point.
Initially, the area was stud-
ied by the geologist who used
new magnetic surveys under-
taken on a large scale by the
Ontario Government. Placing
transparent overlays on avail-
able geological maps, they sum-
marized all the available infor-
mation about the ground and
apptied their favorite theories
as to the potential of the rock
as possible host for mineraliza-
tion.
Frequently, it would be found
that the locations with the
most plus factors would ordin-
arily be considered virtually in-
accessible. By traditional me-
thods of travel, a check of the
suspected outcrop might in-
volve a gruelling pack trip of
possibly weeks in duration, plus
a plane trip at the outset. Cal-
culate the wages, cost of grub,
transportation for a few weelcs,
and the expense is formidable
indeed. Three hours in a heli-
copter might well place an ex-
pert geologist on top of the
outcrop. A few strokes of the
hammer, identification of the
rock, exercise of judgment bas-
ed on six or seven years of in-
tensive university training, and
the location has been written
off, at a cost which is, compar-
atively "peanuts".
Heroic Pilot
The Bell machine shown on
a visit to our camp became
rather famous a couple of
weeks after this snapshot was
taken. It's pilot, an adventur-
er known as "Paddy" Jones,
who had flown extensively in
many parts of the world, be-
came more than a local hero
in the time of the vast forest
fires which swept the area,
When the situation became
critical, the aircraft, pilot and
mechanic were commandeered
by the Ontario Government and
put into fire-fighting service.
Before the forest fire situation
eased off, "Paddy" had saved
a score of lives, pulling fire-
trapped men out of tight spots.
At times he landed in searing
holocausts, smoky little pock-
ets, and vastly overloaded, pull-
ed out with the cockpit jam-
med, Indian firefighters lash-
ed to the pontoons. "Paddy"
was a master of the British
type of understatement, and
when these deeds were refer-
red to, called them, in RAF
parlance, "a piece of cake" or
commented quietly: "Anyone
would have done the same
thing."
The company dismembered
our project and scattered us to
greener fields. We lost touch
with our flying hero, and often
wonder if he is still gathering
such material for the book he
hopes to write some day. Good
luck, "Paddy", wherever you
are!
A good deal of knowledge
about driving can be acquired
through experience; but exper-
ience, contrary to reputation,
is a haphazard and spotty
teacher when it comes to driv-
ing, says the Ontario Safety
League. Traffic safety experts
are convinced that knowledge
of driving should be acquired
through some form of planned
training.
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