WING’S CAFE

“A Good Place to Eat’

We Serve Full Course Meals

DAWSON CREEK - B.C.

R. B. JAY

Fully Licensed Dealer in

COAL AND WOOD

Dawson Creek, B. C.

Dudley & Wilson

CASH STORE

GROCERIES, MEN’S WEAR
SHOES, FLOUR AND FEED |
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Phone 31

DAWSON CREEK B.C.

FISH and CHIPS

R. B. Graham, Proprietor

We Specialize in Steaks
Home Cooking & Baking

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We Serve Full Course Meals

Open From 8 a.m. to 4 a.m.

DAWSON CREEK B.C.

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TWELFTH EDITION

flames. Pursued by whooping cowboys firing
guns and rifles, terrorized horses, with packs
and bedrolls hung loosely from saddles so
they'd be tossed in all directions to add to
the drama of the scene, were headed to-
wards the mounting flames now rapidly at-
tacking dry brush and resinous pines.

Straight for the rickety movie tower
they thudded, straight for the movie man
who ground away supremely unconscious
of his peril. Next moment there was a
rending crash. With flaying arms and legs
he descended amongst splintered props and
debris under stampeding hoofs that swiftly
ground films and camera to pulp. Display-
ing a distressing lack of photogenic sense
the terrorized horses failed to stop when
the show was over. Instead they spilled
with unearthly squeals and terrorized snorts
down the valley communicating their fear
to the remaining horses which stampeding
in turn sought safety in the deepest muskegs
and most impenetrable forest, where sweat-
ing, cursing cowboys wallowed for days in
an attempt to round them up and salvage
the equipment. Fire-scarred forests, lost
horses, snagged broncs, scattered bedrolls
hanging tattered and torn on spreading
branches or trodden into the muskeg, along
with a badly-mauled and angry camera-
man were the net result of th’s attempt to
carry Hollywood into the wilds.

With predatory wolves hanging on their
flanks and devouring gaunt horses that daily
died or were abandoned, the bedraggled
adventurers, abandoning mired and useless
tractors, limped in a series of forced and
painful marches to the lonely Hudson’s Bay
post at Whitewater.

Unused to muskegs and continual wading
through bogs and icy streams the pack-
horses were succumbing daily to the ravages
of hoof-rot and swamp-fever. Thirty died

in a couple of days. By September 27th
only 80 of the original 130 odd head that
had plunged into the wilderness were fit to
load. “We have horses enough—but not
enough horse strength,” bemoaned Bedaux,
“to carry our food and equipment.”

ACE COMSTOCK

WM. C. BOWIE
Village Recorder—Notary Public

COMSTOCK & BOWIE

ESTABLISHED 1930

Phone 15

INSURANCE
REAL ESTATE

Farms Our Specialty
DAWSON CREEK B.C:

Reliable Meat Market

Home-Made Sausages
a Specialty

Save On Your Food Bills
We Make Both Ends Meat

Phone 37 P.O. Box 2333
DAWSON CREEK, B.C.

TERS EERE ET

Through this region the mystery expedition hoped to conquer the wilderness with caterpillar tractors,
rubber rafts and other modern aids to exploration

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