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I r c k L i iad ad Ia P t t a. a 4 t 4 4 I k t t t tAt DUL t At top dog dog cig teams of th the tho e t type ype that are being us used d In the h Red Lake e gold od rus rush Left Lef the Hudson Bayo Bay post at Lac Seul halfway point o n on the trail from Hud Hudson t to eth the mine region Right is IS a map of the theor country showing the the location locario of nR R Red d Lake o an and of Hudson jumping off pac place of for or the tho e prospectors Hills lills That Surround Red Lake Near M Manitoba S Said id to Abound in Nuggets HUDSON ont March 8 6 EA EA The The shaggy huskies and their Iron hearted drivers are outward bound once more outward more outward b bOund und on the long hard snow-covered snow tr trail rail ll that leads to the land of ot gold A new gold rush is on a gold rush that hat is expected to grow to the proportions proportions proportions pro pro- portions of ot the famous Alaska rush of the late nineties Up in a forsaken barren corner of ot Ontario near the Manitoba border border bor bor- der del lies Red Lake an isolated stretch of ice-bound ice water surrounded surrounded surrounded sur sur- rounded by a howling wilderness And the hills biUs that surround Red Lake are arc full of ot yellow gold Government officials who have Investigated believe the strike will prove rove prove one of ot the richest ever eves turned In n America and America and that includes CalIfornIa Cali- Cali fornIa ornia Yukon and the Klondike Hudson Is the jumping off place It t is an insignificant station on the transcontinental railway but it is the he gateway to th the new Yukon and andt It t is taking on an importance out of all proportions to its size Dog teams are being assembled here loads of supplies come in on each train grizzled old prospectors are going over their outfits The gold rush Is on BROTHERS STARTED I IT It all began when two brothers Lorne Lome and Ray Howey headed up Into nto the Red Lake territory last I June to do some prospecting They were time old-time prospectors used to hardship and toil foil They spent the te summer fall and part of the winten winter winter win win- ter ten there We Ve reached the lake on Jul July 10 and s started arted in fit at once sectioning oft off the country with exploration lines across the strike shIke of ot the formation formation formation for for- mation says Lorne Lome Howey Systematic Systematic Systematic prospecting prospecting that's that's the only way to go at It We Ve took samples of quartz veins as we ran across them crushed the quartz and panned it for gold but found nothing nothing noth noth- I ing until July 30 when I ran across a little stringer which proved to tobe tobe tobe be fifty feet oft off the main body Then we Wc struck shuck out in different directions to see just jUt what we had found We traced the quartz i feet to the east It turned out that we were working along a vein that I was eight feet wide in some places and one forty-one feet wide In others with a number of nice showings in it We Ye staked out two twenty-two claims altogether then went to record them and tell our friends John Hammell formerly of Manitoba Manitoba Mani Mani- toba joined the in forming the Red Lake syndicate and a working option was sold at what is said to be one of the largest prices ever paid for an Ontario mining prospect Other prospectors have haye only now gotten wind of ot the project project project and the rush to Red Lake is beginning in full tull swing WILL USE AIRPLANES Some of ot the worlds world's biggest mining mining min mm- ing Interests are rushing representatives representatives representatives In the government is taking supplies to Red Lake the northwest northwest northwest north north- west mounted police have placed a patrol in the district for the first firstI time and hundreds of ot claims are I being staked Just now the only way to rea reach h Red Lake Is ls is b by dog team in the toilsome romantic old style of ot the Alaska gol gold J. J rush Teams of six sI and eight huskies hitched to nine nine- foot toboggans are following the trail down the arm arm of Lac Seul overland for many miles until they strike the Red Lake river and down the ice ice-b ice bound und course of that stream to the lake itself When hen summer comes three aIrplanes airplanes airplanes air aIr- planes will be put into service Th This new wrinkle in gold rush travel is expected to Increase the flood of prospectors The Hudson Bay Ba com corn company company pany also plans plans' to Install motorboat motorboat motorboat motor- motor boat service on Lac Seul and Red Lake RICH WORKINGS To get an idea of ot the value of ot the Red Lake strike it must be understood understood understood un un- un- un that mining companies can make money out of ore that assays only 4 to the ton that some of the richest mines average only 8 3 to the ton ton and and that the Red Lake Lale quartz assays 20 to the ton on a foot 1400 stretch Temperatures in the Red Lake region at this time of year go down as low as 60 below zero The only buildings that have been erected inthe in inthe inthe the neighborhood are an assay of of office fice flee and a bathhouse The latter Is a bare room containing a huge fireplace Big boulders are heated in the fire then the fire is raked out and water Is tossed on the boulders The room n is thus filled with steam and eight men can use use it ii at a time That bath is Is isa a godsend after miles says Howey The prospectors live e In tents with log bog sides Despite the cold they are comfortable And even whan they arent aren't theres there's gold up there |