Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1919 — AIR PHOTOS OF LABRADOR [ARTICLE]

AIR PHOTOS OF LABRADOR

Forty Men Go There to Make Pictures of 1,000,000 Acres of Country’s Forests. New York —A commercial aerial exposition that will revolutionize the work of forestry survey and land photography, according to its managers, is announced by Capt. Daniel Owen, until recently of the royal air force. He said a fleet of four airplanes would leave Battle Harbor, Labrador, under his command and would survey 1,000,000 acres of forest and timber land along the coast of Labrador. The work is being done for a syndicate of Boston bankers, the land belonging to this organization. A steamship has left Annapolis, Nova Scotia, carrying forty men, who will comprise the airplane expedition. The four airplanes are awaiting the force there, and the forty men will make air photographs of timber lands. “This has never been attempted before,” Capt. Owen said. “We will do as much in this way in six days as we could do in the regular way in four or five years. All of the pilots excepting myself will be Americans, recently discharged from the United States army. The planes will be Canadian training machines.” A staff of physicians, headed by Dr. Irwin Tlss of Ashland, Mass., will accompany the crew, with a full commissariat. Capt. Owen is 29 years old. and was in the British air service three years. He lost one eye in combat with German aviators over the enemy’s lines.

It was turned over in trust to the national treasury. The theory is that during the first revolutionary troubles which resulted in the downfall of Porflrio Diaz the boxes were sent from, Chihuahua to a private residence of the Creels here and that when the Zapatistas first entered Mexico City they were placed in charge of the federal district government. The Creel representative stated that a large sum of metallic currency and a valuable collection of jewels also were being sought, but of these easily realizable riches no trace has been discovered.