BLAZING THE TRAIL

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20505, 23 May 1938, Page 2

BLAZING THE TRAIL

NEW KLONDIKE PLANES CARRY PROSPECTORS (Times Air Mall Service) LONDON, April 20. Huge airliners this spring are carrying thousands of prospectors, promoters and gold hunters in a new “Klondike rush" In the sub-Arctic Mackenzie province of Canada, writes the Calgary correspondent of the Dally Express. These fields may give richer yields than even the Yukon, but only powerfully financed concerns have any certain hopes of success. The newest strike of gold is at Yellowknife, in the sub-Arctic, within five hours of Edmonton by plane. Yellowknife Is the site of many rich gold strikes In the past few months, and fresh discoveries lend colour to I statements that this region around the northern inlet of the Great Slave Lake in Mackenzie province may be one of the richest goldfields In Canada. Planes Ship Gold Million* are being spent by three big corporations in building large stamp mills there. The gold will be shipped out in brick form by plane. Another rich strike has been made at the goldfields on Lake Athabaska in Alberta, while new strikes have been made 200 miles north-west of the Great Bear Lake radium-and goldfield. The Athabaska goldfields, a barren •■pot on ttie map less than four years ago, will 'have a population of 1500 thK year. Yellowknife is also expanding rapidly. but owing to Its remoteness and f*ost of transport these new gold strikes in the far north lack appeal for the rank and file who packed the trails to Klondike 40 years ago. Famous Klondike gold rush started ,n 1830. when rich gold hearing gravel was found in Bonanza .Creek. Peak of gold output was reached in 1000— f 4. iOO.OOO worth. The richest gravels were worked out by 1310. “ I don’t know.” said the tobaconst to the scribe. *• that |f‘s as unlucky a* they say for three smokers »o light up from the same match but f do know it s unlucky—deuced unicky- to pass your pouch along to some absent-minded beggar who forgets to return it. I lost a fine pouch | that way once—but ne\er again: smoke myself? Why toasted ! I'd smoke something better if T could get if. Give me a pipe | ..f ..it Plug No. pi Bullshead;—say after lunch —and I wouldn't call the i M.ieen my Aunt: Old smokers love ! if! Other genuine toasted blends? I Yes—two others for the pipe. Cavendish. and Nav; Out No. .3 (Bulldog . Then there’s Riverhead Gold and L)e- ---| *ert Gold, the two most fancied cigarj efte tobaccos. ?ee the run on them ! j How do f account for the popularity lof toasted ? W»»ii it's partly due I to the .juahtx of the leaf and partly i due to the manufacturers' toasting i process. There’s no bite * in I toasted' The reporter took a note of It and lit his pipe.