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GOLD SEEKERS IN ARCTIC VANCOUVER, May 2. Unheard of for eight months, an aeroplane gold-seeking expedition has returned to Edmondton after being frozen in throughout the terrible winter of Northern British Columbia. _ On August 21 last year this party of eight Chicago adventurers disappeared into the wilds, and it was Icai'cd that they had been lost. The expedition, headed by Captain Charles Siminonds and financed by Mr John Rossback and his wife, who were passengers, was piloted by John Bonnell. Placer gold was their objective, and it has turned out that they found none. They were flying 200 miles west of Fort St. John when the engine suddenly failed. They made a forced landing in Cypress Creek. Their plane was badly wrecked, but nobody was injured. They had fairly large food supplies, adn one member of the party, an expert hunter .killed moose, doer, and geese, which they froze. They suffered many hardships, when for thirty-five consecutive days in December and January the temperature ranged from 20deg to 75dcg below zero.
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Evening Star, Issue 21716, 10 May 1934, Page 9
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