Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1926-08-12 | Page 4 | Risking Life for Gold

RISKING LiFE FOR GOLD COLD What risks men will take for gold was as illustrated by the story from Winnipeg of ot a race of ot Can Can- Canadians and Americans through the e wilds of ot Manitoba to be first drat Sn in stakIng out mining claims The CanadIans who won Ion crossed great t mountaIn ranges and plunged Into dimse forests In a COO mila mile trip to the land of gold On the way t they were hemmed In b by a forest fire lre and for lor six hours lay flaton flat flaton on a rocky point while the flames leaped over their heads beads Then they the proceeded through dhe ashes ankle ankle- deep If It a mountain of ot gold were to tobe tobe tibe be reported near the north pole the prospector would find lind a way wa to get et there The The lure of o gold col did much to populate this western country Now It St Is Js drawing the darIng miner Into the forest depths of ot Canada