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Show o SEEK GOLD IN THE ARCTIC Adventurers Are Now Prospecting the CoaiU of Baffin Bay JrtlST Davie Strait ,w One of tho renlly pathetic stories of modo-n history Is tho mutiny of Henry Hudson's crew when he was exploring tho nrctlr waters of Nonh America, nml his nb.iiiiloniiieiit, with liN boil, In thnt vnst Itiliiud sen that liears his inline, ii writer In the HrooMn Kugle reniiirlvH. Many lives have Iuhmi sacrl-Heed sacrl-Heed hi the quest of the North nnd South pubs. Sir John I'rnuMln's nnd the JeaunetteV pnrtlei in iim north and the recent Scott expedltiou at tho south only need bo mentioned. Plans nro afoot to open up the Ilaflln hay region to commerce. For many years smnll steamers have been ranking rank-ing summer visits to Hudson bay to trade with tho natives, nnd the Cana dian government Is building a railway to one or Its ports. Itallroad and commercial com-mercial development or Alnskn by American enterprlso has caused prospecting pros-pecting or tho mineral resources of tho consts or Hatlln bay nnd Davis strait, with the result or finding, nt the former place, gold In sufllelent quantities quanti-ties to Justify development, and coal of excellent quality along the letter. The latitude Is nbout the sniue as that of the Yukon region and only a few degrees north of that of Nome, which hns developed Into n large community. So Impelling Is the lure of gold that the hardships of mi arctic cllmuto will not deter adventurers from hazarding their lives ngalnst the wealth Raid to ho burled under the eternal miow and Ico of Huron Island. |