LABRADOR TIMBER

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 62, 6 December 1919, Page 11

LABRADOR TIMBER

PROSPECTING BY- AEBOPLANE. It, has been left to the enterprise of cap : ti'lists from-the United States to examine, with a view to development, into '.iif forest wealth and mineral resource-- of Labrador, the vn-it territory th"l lies to the north of Newfoundland". Di'-'"T the pa-it few weeks an aerial expsilitiou has been prospecting for timber tlr net .-,i."ices of this sparsely populated country. 'By the ordinary methods it would lake many mouths lo examine and report <>;> t : mber properties, but tho leader of Pus expedition—an ex-captain in the Roya! Aiv Force—has been able to accomplished the task of prospecting one and a nuni-ier million acres in eleven davs by means of aeroplane. The expedition consisted of fivo air pilots, two ie -.•■•.■■■'■-■. ■■ fni'st"-'-. a nnt-ii-i'Mst. and two survevu's. as well as a wircles.3 operator, a physician, and other assistants. Th" mieli'iies used, were two Corliss biplane' and one hydro-aeroplane. As Hip result of the report made bv this o«' - tv. which is r-unported by aerial nhoto;r'" ~,1,u. the properly which is in the nei'dd■nurhnod of Battle Harbour, is Fnii'id lo l>" mui'h more densely wooded Hi-Mi n-' fvH-d, a"d as a result a P nV of f'c debts has been competed |o AmHran capitalists, who propose to cm-ip-'" on"ration« for Hie precr,rn ;i>i(i •yp» , -''!tr of a pulp mill on a 1 -p «-a'«. '''''» success of such an en-tn.-T,,-;.--. it- T/ibri'dnr is '•"udered probn'do b-c:T<-» of th» "\is)enee of pr»at ~j v „i.. ; j„ -.11 niirt.'. n' the ci'ntry, wh'ch /.,.- ' M !"-ovide a "itu-al dri-i'i"' now- for luiiil>""i]i(f and for vc-Vin-- nw'wrv. An pslima'" has Vpii mm!" I' 1 " 1' the linibT nvulehlp in Ibis .li-m i-lioiibl be worlh (wptv-Mx million l|pii„rs '|'i' ir-'Hpi of t'mber found inelud"d while l; ; '''b. ponlar, aspen, cedar nine, "'''it' 1 ' im ' M 'k si inlCP i 'I >ll '- sair. fir- n-d larch.