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Show LONG DOG SLED JOURNEY MADE TO OIL FIELDS JUNEAU Alaska. Jan - Winter, '.rails. 1.35 miles across the iioithern' continental divide were followed recently re-cently hy J. T Burns, well-known Alaska Alas-ka "inusher" on a trip to Juneau from the now oil fields at Fort Norman In : the great Mackensie basin of north-J western Canada. Buns, It Is believed. Is Hie first man to reach Alaska this winter from tht Bnowbound oil country. Royal Cana-' .llan Mounted Police are holding back until spring scores of prospectors who would strike put over tho snow for the jlelds In coining out from Norimin, Uurnyj U 11 Over a cliff he reported! whin1 within several hundred mile of his' destination. Me broke a bone In his out md Injured his hip, he said. A i... w;is ula a-. In cam; on without istgnce. Hums, an Australian mining engineer, en-gineer, has been In the northlOnd for yean and Claims he has covered 26000 dies 'mushing" over trail-. HI flog Peary, which has accompanied him oh many of the trips, cutne from Nor.u in vlth hlni. In gotim into Fori Norman lust June linrn followed a trail he reCOhllOendJl IT W, i . i i "m ushers.'' He i 't prince RuV pbrti on the British Columbia fcooslfJ crossed the mountains and struck thei headwaters of the Laird river. He fo!-1 Sd the Lain until it met the Mack-I ansie which took him to Fort Nor-1 man. ComlOg out, he took an old In- dlan trail to Ail " which is connected :. rail v. ith Skggway u tidewater. While at '"ort Norman, Uurns stak-ed stak-ed oil ground and expects to return next summer to work his property. He ..I he found many i;hoi oil .md rr- ' I prospects in the Mackensie country and declared the country is so big it; ha hardiy been touched. Oil and gns prospects show for uoo miles, he de-J dared. |