Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 02, 1966, Winnipeg, Manitoba R july 1966 a gory murder in two Des Perate a determined manhunt through the Frozen these were the elements that led to the discovery of a fabulously Rich Creek of Gold in the District of the Creek k still and the for the Man who found it never re and the Only other Man who knew its location was i first stumbled across the Stra n g e Story last february flying in a Light air plane towards Ennadai in the Southwest Corner of the District of Kee the suddenly its Down there whats Down there i my mind still on the vast Frozen wilderness we had crossed since leaving Lynn the i he yelled Over the Roar of the theres a lost Creek bed of pure Gold somewhere below just no one my was Gold has a ring to it like no other word in the English but my questions to the Pilot went unan like most people i spoke to Dur eng the next two he knew no More than he had already told Early in May i Learned More about the mystery surrounding the Arctic i hit pay dirt in Lynn of All shooting the Breeze one Day with two Good friends in Frontier settlement 800 Miles Northwest of i happened to broach my favorite subject Sven and Nick exchanged startled and i knew i had stumbled across Sven Here knows something about a Gold Nick said and so the Middle aged gentleman he told me a almost unbelievable but the documents he showed the checking i later did proved the legend was there and Gold in the District of the strange Saga had its genesis in the England of in the Spring of that two Edwin and nor Man murdered a highly placed per son the commissioner who headed Scot land Yard took a personal interest in the alarmed to discover the two murderers had fled to prom ised the outraged Public that they would quickly be brought to he contacted his Nephew and with out packed him aboard a fast clip per bound for his Mission to arrest the Pratt Brothers wherever they no one realized at the time where his uncles cuban dried instructions would take Young Ferd before the year was out the London Dandy would face trackless fierce and the terrifying loneliness of the Northern As later events chances Are Mawcinitt would still knowingly have taken these great risks to bring the murderous Bro thers to Mawcinitt the cold Trail of the fugitives in they a murder a manhunt and a Creek with a bed of h i u x us 4 n i had fled to he arrive ing1 there As Winter set fearing capture and the Hangman the killers hired a bought and ammunition and a fast dog then headed North towards the Bleak and practically uninhabited Snow desert Northwest of Hudson arriving in Mawcinitt immediately contacted the North mounted the Brothers had de parted a Day or two lie Dis but the mounties would give him All the help he Constable Mcdermott and two Indian guides were put at his in no time at All the Small party was hot in Pursuit of the Tine Trail they followed led bypassing the tiny Village of Selkirk and continuing up the shores of Frozen Lake Mawcinitt and Mcdermott set a steady convinced the rugged country and great distances Between trading posts would eventually exhaust their at Norway a trading Miles North of the posse missed capturing the Pratts by Only the Brothers had stopped briefly to take on supplies and to rest their dog surely the fugitives would rest at Nel son House on the Burntwood they they were and the Pur suit continued through the Long Winter soon Mawcinitt and Mcdermott crossed the Churchill further and further North they on past Broad Reindeer past the tiny Trad ing Post of and finally Ward to Wollaston where they lost the still determined to Pratts the tired mountie and the englishman pushed further North Ward until they reached the South end of Kasha Lake in the Northwest Terri Here the Hunters made Camp and slowly discussed their they were but so probably were the were than Miles North of they haunt seen any track of human making for As Constable Mcdermott pointed the Pratts were facing the same by now there probably suffering severe frostbite and and Are worried about their he i figure Treyve probably doubled Back towards if they theres Only one thing they could have Mawcinitt asked the Trail Wise they May have swung off the made and holed up for the while the two men tried to read the murderers one thought kept running through their own neither wanted to be the first to turn but it was obvious not even murderers would court certain death by pushing further North into the barrens at this time of the Ferd by now a hardened Arctic voted to split their he suggested they turn their dogs to find out if the Pratts had holed they would split into two groups and explore the fringes of the waterway trailing this he they could maintain Contact with each other if any thing suspicious was decades recalling the trip South in a letter to Swen Pearson of Lynn Mawcinitt wrote v after several Days Spring slowly crept up on i remember standing on a High Ridge Overlook ing the Distant As i had for Many i was trying to catch a glimpse of smoke a sign that the elusive Pratts in the just below me i spied a bubbling running Low on so i thought this was As Good a time As any to replenish my standing on the Bank of the i noticed just below where i stood and on either Side of the Creek bed and the was which i had never seen the suns reflection played joyously on the rippling giving the entire area a vibrant i marked the place with a Cigar Box of that will have disappeared Many years but at that i was Only going on so what can you expect in letter Mawcinitt described How he palmed a Small Rock from the Creek then Cut Back towards the main fearing he would be left that when he caught up Don Sutherland As told to Ray Tulloch to he him have you got Gold the mountie that the richest Ore Ive even after the excitement of Mawcinitt discovery had died the two men and their Indian guides continued South to which they reached in late nowhere had they seen any sign of the so they decided to return to Winnipeg to wait out the they knew the norths terrible Iso lation would eventually drive the two englishmen Back to late in the fall of 1895 they Learned that two answering the Pratts had staggered into an Eskimo Camp late the Winter of Camp was North of Ennadai Lake in the South Western Corner of the District of Kee More news trickled South during the Winter of one brother had been shot to death in a log according to the North West mounted police the other brother was blown up by Ferd Mawcinitt had taken his piece of Rock to a Winnipeg he was startled to discover it contained ounces of pure v r Mawcinitt now had to watch his own word about his discovery had leaked out and he considered it too dangerous to return to the site of Gold his fears May have been Well a Friend to whom he confided the location was later stabbed to death by to this Day it int known if the Friend was murdered because of the but the question still hangs Over the Mawcinitt never returned to the far North he made his Way to where he carved out a Ful business the last letter to his Lynn Lake Friend was written in in no longer interested in the he As i expect soon to be called As the Sal vation army puts i am 74 so it is hot Worth troubling someone will find it again and Good Luck to this May be the answer to the worlds water problems Bobbing on the swells of the incoming the sea Gull swallows its fish dinner and chases it Down with a swig of Salt desalination scientists have looked longingly at this creature which extracts fresh water from the its entire fluid intake is from the yet its blood Content is no saltier than Inland has used a Sim practical and depend Able Means of extracting fresh w a Ter he has boiled and when vapor from the Kettle is the water diced will be this is the same Way nature produces desalinated water by evaporation from the nature uses Energy from the Sun the Tea Kettle uses Energy from the the reason for looking at processes other than the Evajo Ortive Type is that under certain conditions Thermal Energy is not readily the search is directed toward new processes which might produce water a lower Cost than the Thermal if the gulls secret can be Man could insure an infinite Supply of water and revolutionize life in the parched nations of the the gulls process is known to be reverse How it is accomplished the Gull and other Salt water creatures is Only imperfectly under yet the principle is quite what is when we drink a Glass of it courses into our stomach and the water enters the bloodstream through a mysterious process called whens membrane separates different concentrations of water moves of lighter concentrations through the Mem into the More concentrated fluid the from a cup of Coffee enters your blood Stream through the Mem branes which form the Walls of your intestine leaving be Hind the Ash arid other two Chambers Side by Side with an osmotic Between fill one with fresh water and the other with the fresh water will Migrate through the membrane and join the sea increasing the volume in the there is such a Strong natural attraction the fresh water that if the Salt water chamber is an astonishing pressure of 350 pounds per Square Inch Psi will be built up when this pressure is the pro Cess and the two fluids remain in the phenomenon of osmosis has been known and studied for More than 200 it is the mechanism by which Trees and plants take up moisture and nutrients from an4 its properties become All the More remarkable when by Waldo Boyd Trees Are compared to vacuum but where does this fit in with modern attempts to dealt Ocean water consider the previously mentioned fresh and Salt Side by with Only a permeable Mem Brane when the state of equilibrium is a pressure of 350 Psi exists in the Container with the Salt suppose by applying Exter Nul Force such As by Hydraulic Piston the pressure is increase beyond 35g Psi say to too the tendency then will be for the to return through the membrane ing the Salt until the pressure once More stabilizes at 350 suppose now that a pump is supplied with Salt water from the and pressure is continuously applied to the water with practically no Salt Content will diffuse through the membrane the process name re verse osmosis is Given be the flow of water under applied pressure is opposite to that normally occurring in on a practical cell pressures As High As Psi Are required for desalting Ocean although lower pressures Are quite adequate for conversion of brackish water and waste in 1953 the office of Saline water of the department of agriculture the first vigorous investigation of the practical aspects of revers ing the natural osmotic pro when slide rules were applied scaling up the apparatus to practical Plant the costs Oje Upkeep and replacement of Mem branes became an0 yet the lure of simplicity Kep the labs work ing on the a Basic research program to establish of Teaf these pressure tubes Ore filled with acetate membranes which permit fresh water to flow through but fwd Izick Salt and of Fer solved ;