Show mN U DANGERS liE DRA DRAVED VU mR FOR FORE E fW UlNA GOlD vents Reminiscent of I Klondike Reenacted at Edie Creek I. I NE WOMAN IN FIELD I ro s Killed by I Hostile Natives I By A. A W. W V. V KING ted Press Staff Correspondent SYDNEY SiDNEY March Marci 5 United ess of the on dyke at tt its roughest hest restaged ed a tropical setting are taking ce on on the worlds world's newest gold Id Id t Edle Creek Crek In thE roan man of New Guinea men are braving braving- the usand and one dangers of the I menace ol of sickness and weapons to reach the field davIng got there thele are quarrel quarrel- T J mong themselves for claims h he field was discovered In Feb Feb- by A. A F. F Chisholm and i m Royal Good finds had been I orfed about two to years ago on river of which Edlo Edle J e eIs Is a tributary the pioneer of at strike being an old Now New Guinea Bill Park known from one I the Island to the other as ark eye I Sh Shark eye rk and nd his friends g out all the available land I e river rive and conse- conse Len ly Chisholm and Royal who fre In business in the Ital of the territory decIded to toIl Il h luck further afield They ced the Edie Edle creek to Its source I dafter finding a few specks of low at the bottom of a waterfall I he head they cUm climbed bed the Y ff over which the water dashed x t Were ere on a level plateau found I pockets of gold which have the advEnture hunters of ever evel since IN RUSH n reports began to drift tto Sydney and other Austra- Austra Jh fri towns by the steamers which ri regularly to New ew Guinea and raft themselves brought solid soUd I dence of the wealth wEnIth of the field th the shape of gold consignments a rush to the field Men and Inexperienced med d prospecting parties and left 11 ew Guinea Despite official u of the difficulties difficulties' of I ching the field the stream coni con con- i and soon there were hunt hun hun- t d dof f men at Edie creek I he nearest port was Y a settlement soon HerE the steamer landI land land- I th gold seekers and their equip equip- 1 nand stores That was the thel l Ie part of their journey Edie Edle J k k was but thirty miles Inland a Ird would fly but to walk re meant descending and ascend ascend- r precipitous jung w valle valleys s ss ng ridden fever swamps and andI I vl yng g warlike natives Many I I reached i- i Edie Edic creek h difficulty was to hire lye Ive carriers These each cost costS S to sign Up an and ton ten were to every white man I h gh New Guinea Is a r country the EJ ther Is always I on n the Edie Edre reek field owing It its altitude Not Nul only Is It cold th the year round hut but scarcely a fp that tha t It Ices does not rain as I the miners have to rely tinned goods as there be 18 no noC I. I C 9 0 be e found In the jungle S S WOMAN THERE he e is one Woman on the field wJ v she he got there she herself herselt and her husband only knows reached the field first lit l tile tHe wife tackled the tremens s task of getting getting- goods across This mea meant nt traveling t over r 1 In rain and with only ye vc carriers as companions She and actually too took Ie ge of a claim OI someone else dId dd it well La Later ter she pegged l a nice area fOr herself herselt Her V Vice ce s now a travelers travelers' rest For lor lorI I ly nUrse she has organized a 1 and has an isolation ward d dysentery Despite serious cases ii sickness kness which have passed ugh her hands she has saved She is the Florence of Edie Edle creek creele C name nama Is Mrs Booth White carriers making for the ave been stricken with dys- dys l' l and Mrs Booth hs h risen to too o Occasion caslon and nursed many a aman man roan back to health For this gel gei of the Goldfields as the then n t n-t call her the men would do dod d dare re anything In her presence r and hardest bitten be- be Should one safety or happiness a hundred him to bits bils v vey y steamer from flom Ching Sydney brIngs successes lf jf Success Is represented p of gold In the ships ship's I ng rooms Failure by broken I and empty pockets By far most gold has gone to a small U ue of miners who were on the thel l early and obtained big leases m ning representing over three es of rich gold bearIng creek Later arrivals have had to elOf sr aUer areas on poorer land s has caused ng the later coIners who are Ing the federal government In bourne to step over the head of I lal al admInistrator and cut up larger arger leases Into ordinary ers era rights clams claIms It If this Is not ethey threaten to jump claims s I meanwhile they are exerting iJ to obtain their ends I he lure of the goldfields resulted thet death of four Australian I Vectors by hostile natives The the was carout car car- Lout out by II a force of twenty white 1 nd sixty native police and ted In the murderers being iI Their attacked the ii punitive force and was repulsed leaving several dead and wounded Hostile Host natives along alon the track from to Edie creek have also murdered numbers of carriers no white men have met their deaths alon along r thIs path Quite II IIa a number however r have fallen aHen by bythe bythe the way through disease which has 1 also broken the health of m many ny l I others S. 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