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The small lakes, uncharted and unnamed, that abound in Canada's northland make incidents such as this fairly frequent. To get out of such places requires a skilled pilot—the reason why all Canadian air companies operating in that northern country are so particular about employing only the most experienced flyers.
Passengers and tools for mining camps are not the only loads carried by the airplane transports of the north. Everything in this mining game, whether it be the transportation of a mining engineer or a case of dynamite, requires speed.
AUTO BUS FOR ROAD OR RAIL TO EXTEND MOTOR TRAVEL
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Wider use of the motor bus is promised through the introduction of a vehicle that can be run on rails or on an ordinary road without undergoing any changes in its body design or arrangement. This is made possible by flanges on the wheels and a series of special sockets and lugs. Traction on the rails is furnished by gearing and an endless-tread arrangement operated by the pneumatic-tired wheels.
STUDY OF SPOTS ON THE SUN AIDS SEARCH FOR OIL
There seems to be little connection between the occurrence of spots on the sun and a prospector's success in finding oil or minerals, but scientists believe there is a definite relation and are making further study to establish their theories. The effects of the sunspots on the earth are not known for a certainty, but the phenomena are believed to be associated with magnetic storms here, from time to time, disturbances that cannot be perceived by the senses but that are detected by the action of delicately suspended magnets. When there is such a storm, the magnet behaves strangely, its needle often deviating from the true north to a far greater degree than normally. Oil prospectors who are using the magnetic system keep in touch with coast and geodetic survey observatories where records are kept of the magnetic storms, and are thus guided in their activities and findings.
