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Way OL 10OKING AL UlLigS that marks them out as philosophers. Often their philosophy takes the turn of being hard on themselves and easy on others in their judgments. This is apparently the type of humour that characterizes W.©C. Kennedy, once an active prospector in this North Land, but now with Solloway, Mills Co., Toronto. â€" All will not agree with the picture he paints of the prospector, but all will recognize that it has many noteworthy features, and at least it has the advantage of being interestâ€" ing. â€" Mr. Kennedy says :â€" ‘‘Prospecting is in ninetyâ€"nine cases out of a hundred an incurable disease and the viectim, after a season‘s hard slugging with nothing but flyâ€"bites and callouses for his pains, usually swears ‘never again.‘‘ â€" However, after a week‘s change from his own cooking and a visit to the local bootlegger the grouch disappears and then all that is necessary to send him off on another twoâ€"hundredâ€"mile trip is a rumour of a find and the necessary grubâ€"stake. ‘‘The writer was bitten by the bug quite early in life, in fact in 1904, when at a tender age the symptoms first appeared. While attending pubâ€" lie school in New Liskeard the teacher told us one day of silver being found five miles south of Haileybury on the right of way of the new railway which was then being built. We remember PROSPECTING USUALLY AN INGURABLE DISEASE Qualifications and Qualities of Pros pectors Described by One W ho Has Been One of Them Prospectors are noted for their huâ€" mour. On the trail they have time for thought and study and philosophy and so they attain an insight and a rletached way of looking at things that marks them out as philosophers playing ‘‘hockey‘‘ for three weeks and camping on Cobalt Lake while prospecting â€" for _ silver. Although practically the whole country was open and we found cobalt bloom and other encouraging signs, we did not stake a claim as we thought it was useless unless one found silver in large chunks. This was a tactical orâ€" ror, as a few months afterwards any claim in this vicinity would have brougcht $25,000 eash. ‘‘We have been at the game more or less consistently ever since and alâ€" though not yet having found the pot at the end of the rainbow, we still have hopes and have managed to keep aâ€" head of the bailiff. To be a successful prospector one should be strong in the back, weak in the head and a philosopher as well as an optimist. Also one should be too bullâ€"headed to know when to quit, ©The beginner should try to hook up with an experienced prospector, and after a season or two he will be able to roughly classify the various rocks, read blueâ€"prints and other maps, including those issued by the government in connection with their reports of geological surveys. He will learn how to handle his compass VYAE 26 28 S PCR es EY in staking claims and how to keep a course across difficult and unknown country. He will also by this time have mastered the art of flipping the flapâ€"jack, handling his canoe in fast water, mushing huskies with the necessary profanity, and making camp under adverse conditions when everyâ€" thing may be wet or it may be forty below. ©Around the campâ€"fire each night the amateur will hear discussed geoâ€" logy, theology, politics, prizeâ€"fighters or what have you? He will soon be able to talk about porphyries, conâ€" tacts, intrusions, faults, glaciation, dips, strike, winzes, folds, striae and paleozorie, after which he can consider himself a prospector, if not exactly a sourâ€"dough. amateur usually loads himâ€" seif with samples, but after wearing out three set of pockets he gets over it as he discovers no one believes:â€"a samâ€" nle rame from where he says it does as he discovers ple came from anyway. ‘It is admitted that Ontario possesses a few hundred of the most able and efficient prospectors in the world. Many of them are in a posiâ€" tion of financial independence and do not hesitate to charter special trains and aeroplanes to reach an objective when they receive reliable informaâ€" tion of an important discovery. In this regard a lot of eredit is due the Ontario and Dominion governments for their geological reports and maps ; also classes held by Dr. W. L. Goodâ€" win and others of the Department of Mines. * * t ‘*The writer has a different sort of job now, but in case the boss should hand him his ticket some morning he has saved up the old hobâ€"nailed boots and flannel shirt and could hit the trail again.‘"‘ )e oT humoutr | Kennedy, oneeé this North L wav, Mills THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO Thursday, Dec. 22nd, 1927