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Show DARING OIL PROSPECTORS MAY FLY TO NEW FIELD VANCOUVER, B. C", Dec. it. Sev-I (oral daring Canadian oil prospect omsidcrins using airplanes to Cijj 600 miles Into the snowbound now "il -fields near Fori Nbfroan, northeast of' jher and stake their claims In advance! (of th stampede expected oxer th-I th-I trails to Norman In the spring. 1 Ati attempts ," KP overland to the 1 l-'ort .Vornwi country duriniEr tht.- win--ter'hjv.' been blucked by Ilo;il Ca:i-' adlan .Mounted Police, who are holding back scores of prospectors at the Peace River crossing. The proMpectorj Will b allowed i strjke for tht- dli li t when ilio i-i- leaves the liwi.- in the "prlnic I According to Major C. MscLAUiiit, ' nnperlntendent of the Jericho air sta-i sta-i Hon f the Dominion of Canada an Iboard. it would be poss'.i'le to fly fror.i I the coast to the oil fielt. and return In one day. 'J'ho plane would be out-1 fitted on the coaxt near Port Norman iind would soar aonoss the white mountain moun-tain ratigeM. which cannot be crossed On font. The plane. Major Maclaurin thinks.' li-ouU bit equipped with rUnnei n.i-.u.s f whiih lat.dinKs could be- made on the ico of rivers and lakes, I which aboupd near Fori Norman About twenty claims vvrre Staked ihj :h di-nrti t liefori th pohe !'.-cl ' I area wA iiul'iinn ;;iil t' i- . lot the n"ii promlsins clalnis art U) Its locoled |