Ke Alakai o Hawaii, Volume VI, Number 5, 1 June 1933 — PLANES TAKE MINE MACHINERY OVER MOUNTAINS [ARTICLE]

PLANES TAKE MINE MACHINERY OVER MOUNTAINS

Thousands of tons of minlnp; machinery are being carried over mountain ranges and jungles In airplanes to gold mines*almost inaccesslble by other means of transportation. A 4,000 - ton dredge was recently carried by plano iito the interior of New Guim;?.. three mountain ranges. This method was employed to get early delivery, to escape ambush by natives and to avoid the expense of buildlng a railroad into the interior. . In onē instance, a stamp mill ■waā camed across Canada to the Arctic circle.