Show POLICE HALT RUSH TO YUKON LAND Endeavor to Prevent Men Fr Freezing e ng to Death I n DT LEE IEn J J. J S SUITS Newspaper e T Enterprise Staff CorrM Correspondent V VANCOUVER B. B C. C Dec I A A squadron of Northwest mounted P po po- lice fur clad and patrolling on 01 snowshoes snowshoes snow- snow shoes is holding back frenzied d oil prospectors prospectors prospectors pros pros- to prevent at Fort lort Df y McMurray the them from risking their lives on mile 1000 trail to the fabulous fields opened up at al Fort Norman Norma by the Imperial im imperial Im- Im penal Oil company A repetition of the YUKon Yu on gold rush in which many lives were sacrificed is fear feared d by the mounted police pollee and b boff by off officials Us of the Hudson Bay Day company and Northern Trading company Ltd the white whose trading posts are the only settlements along the Peace and Mackenzie Mac W-t- kenzie rivers leading to the rich U L-U strike FOOT FOOD IS snORT SHORT of or Last winter concluded a a. period such prosperity for the Indian trappers trappers trap trap- that have neglected ne to acI ac- ac pers they 1 I I I cumulate the usual store of winter food and famine certainly would attend attend at attend at- at tend any influx of fortune hunters The Fort Norman Norma gusher not only taps what whal is believed go to be vast a res reservoirs reservoirs reser reser- of oil but the product is of higher higner high high- er grade than any hitherto discovered in Canada There are about twenty 1 I whites at the scene of the strike and andi claims have been staked slaked for fifteen i miles up and down stream from the big blA find The break up of ice nJ late in rW the fw eb I 1 sP spring will i leave a waterway waterway between which the rail a is t less terminus than a and f miles the n s soi oi oil south field o othe of Is be being being be- be the Arctic circle Boat building ing pushed despite deep P sno snow and bilter bitter bit bit- ter cold Captain C. C Smith of the Lamson bard steamer Lady Mackworth passed through here on i his way south with the life latest report on th the e sensational strike of the Imperial company From the new field to the railroad fiend there is a continuous water route in summer said Captain Smith save for fora or ora mile mlle portage between Fort Smith a and Fort Fitzgerald o This gap will willbe be bridged with a a. pipeline next sum surn- the rail railroad raU- raU mer Oil 04 can b be delivered at road at al about 50 cents a barrels WARNS DOUT FOOD The Lamson Lamson-Hibbard company a eill will make every effort to meet the r emp-r- putting additional steamers by In gency commission a as rapidly riled as p against but the public should be warned against stampede a Unless a a. prospector knows know where e days day's grub f is coming from froming during dur dur- ur- ur every ing his stay north of McMurray l y he should not start out The Hudson Ray Pay cannot import r more than the company or orr orits provisions needed f for its trappers I |