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of a Ionm 'fim which swept away all growth, licked up homes, "melted" great stone buildings, snuffed out human life, ers with a new plan, ready to plunge into the tangle of charred beams and twisted girders. Thay find it gruelling. racking, sullying labour to clear away this chaos cfi reeking desolation. . . . In a year w re‘urn, to find a new city better sgommunity.. The builders No. 32â€"A group of prospectors in the early days of the Porcupine gold fields. Do you any cf them? How many? How long have yvou been here? The top pictursâ€"No. 1â€"Shows prosâ€" pectors hitting the trail for Timmins, all manâ€"power sleighs for the hauling. Below will be found an article on the founders of the Hollinger Mine and the Town of Timmins. The article is by that gifted writer, Wallace J. Laut, ediâ€" tor /of "Gold," the magazine of the North, and is reproduced by the kind permission of the «dtior of "Gold," the photographs also being â€" reproduced through the same courtesy. After the Wreckers come the Builders We have seen great cities laid waste by fire; monumental piles toppled low; imillions in goods consumed; thusands thrown from their jobs. The waste reâ€" vealed in the gray light of mcorning has shown a wreckage almost irreparâ€" able. Yâ€"in a day or two, an army Of men appears, commanded by leadâ€" NJ. 3â€"The first passenger train of the Striking Story of Pioneering by Noah Timmins and Associates After the Creckers Come the Builders," Says Wallace J. Laut, noted Canadian Author and Editor of "Gold." The Story of the Faith and Vision of the Men who Esâ€" tablished the Town of Timmins. wreckers Some Pictures of Early Days ‘le on the and even consumed entire ecommunities revealed the individuals and mfluences that can and will make wreckags> ci naticn. Yet once the line of *hreaten- ing disastsr has advanced so far, the salvagers step in, and after them ccomes the new constructicn force. No. 5â€"Starting again after losing everything in the Porcupine fire of 1911. T. N. O. Railway to reach Porcupins in 1911. No,., 4â€"One of the early views of the HMHollinger Mine, showing buildings and old stamp mill. These cuts printed by courtesy of "Golid." Canada has let th> wreckers have their day; now the builders. Nogah Timmins Marches on (By Wallace J. Laut) In a country which goes in more for The worid econsmic holocaust has So it ever is with flsod and cyclione, with shipwreck and train disaster, with plague and warâ€"the Four come and pass. to be followed by the tdudnaranudisrqadfini dauntless cones with the great cure and healing in their worksâ€"the devoted and clearâ€"eyed restorors. The survivors huddled on the lake shore. stripped of everything, in the depths of despair, apparecntly the inert victims ¢f permanent defeat. Yet in ancther year‘s passing, these same surâ€" vivors, with thsir wornout tools made betier better farms, and better communities in the pathway of the desâ€" trover. Oh, gloriou:, ‘fres, and invincible race! They shall carry cities on tHheir shculders and bestow luxuries and igâ€" rored even this whols tremendous incuâ€" sus of high business pressure and high blood pressure of the men who find their epic in contract bridge, at banquet tables and the shame of the sOcial "climber‘". One wonders how some of these leaders will face the poorlyâ€"fed mothers and children of the North one day? How will they be received in this sort of "society", the only real Canadian "aristocracy‘"â€"{yecause these are the builders of the foundations. A great Canadian prospector, strivâ€" ing to feed his group of forty men, toiling in rock trenches far to the north to find gold, faces a hostile creâ€" ditor, whose general manager recently has referred to our "tremendcus and growing go‘ld mining industry." The grea; manager has a readier welcome for the flabby person who made his mcney out of bootleg whiskey. A Northern mcther, who has seen father, husband, brother, give their lives in mine or forest fire or white water, stands at a shack door gazing at a swelling column of smoke, wonâ€" dering whether her boys will get out of the oush twenty miles away. A young Canadian aviator, on the wings of the morning, fliss over broodâ€" ing, mysteryâ€"veiled Ungava in szarch f the white quar‘:z mouniain around which Indian legend of rich minerals hnas gathered. His bankers refused him 2 Ilcan, but he‘s there anywayâ€"On God Almighty‘s Payrcll. Excelsior! Do we sing the Northen flying man‘s saga, or prefer to glorify a marcelled movie hero who has never left the ground of his scwn vanity, as we take cur own synthetic flying thrills in a picture palace! Wahnat a race of psople wz are â€"in the Noerth! A flyâ€"bitten man in bocts and bresâ€" ches, loaded with the weigh: of another fullâ€"grown man, as though he carried the burden of his softer and grosser city brother, plods through the steamingz muskeg, day on day, praying only for an outcrop of the vein he knows must lie somewhere in a tenâ€"mile mSrass of tangled brush and swamp. He â€" has suificient supplies cached to last him arâ€"other month. He packs his giderâ€" down bed, his larder, and his houseâ€" h?ld on his own shculders. He is alon:s, almost friendless, daring the wilds withâ€" out a dollar, but, he goes on. Alpine Macgregor wrote: "Beyond the farthest river‘s bend Forever on in quest." Is h> not a Canadian worthy of his fathers? In clear, crystal, Northern light, in the healing ozOne of this soundls:s, fenceless domain, stand a few of the solitary figures who may save us. A Mcoses may call from the hills of Temiskaming tomorrow to those trapâ€" ped and victimized in an Egypt of materialistic domination, the like of which few worlds have known. | _ Mark it well that these Northern men know the calibre of a certain fresboos;â€" ing element which has stuck close to pig cities, propaganda machines, money ,vaults. copicus supplies of water for the stock (not farm stock) and all but ruinâ€" ed a nation. These Northerners sense anead a new school of pioncer thought in Canada, which, at least in a growing lgeneratxon with more vision and less of ,the rotten credo of greed, shall come to dominats the nation‘s rebuilding. We have cutworn the era of ths« "nation builder‘", he of the long, whiskers driving the golden spike, and we have bred among their successors a slippery class of cynical high fanciers, quick to take advantage of a growing nal:ional prid:, adept at weaseling into the back doors of "statesmen", and twisting qublic opinion‘s power to their cwn ends, doâ€" ing things that may appear big and possessed of an epic quality, but always with a sinster manipulation in their own interests and a blindfolding of the dear longâ€"suffering public. We all know what terrible criminal things have been done by these proponents of the. New Materialism, even down to its efâ€" fect upon the very food and livelihood of ( the people. They swagger in the newsâ€" paper scene like a crowd of bloated feuâ€" dal barons: and, though they think themselves secure, we know them for what they are. And we are resolved that they shall not destroy the new crop of hopsâ€"in the North. of this, our Canada. Thess are the men who, brushing aside the looters and money changers and market riggers, risk greatly and dedicate their souls and fortunes to new pioneering tasks worthy of the Titansâ€"in the forests, on the rivers, deep into the rocks. heroes and heroâ€"worship and chccses names from the classical legends for its nationâ€"builders, he would have b>n called an Argonaut, a Croesus, or the Cecil Rhodes of Canada. He would apâ€" pear as the Hcratio Alger or Rex Beach character to hold up befcre the advenâ€" turous youth, or the central figrre in the great romantic fiction which some day is to be written arcund the modetn discoverers who actually have seized ujpon the primal and tremendous tasks THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE. TTMMINB, OM Noah Timmins and his four partâ€" ners may have besn laymen rushing in where experts feared to trzad, but they hung on like bulldogs in the face of snegrs, jJsers, and a few words of chesr. And they never had a word on pap=r beiween them. If they hadn‘t had such a mad conviction, Hollinger might never have been developed for years. Sections of the press were hamâ€" mering the effort to sell Hollinger stock. Everybody‘s Magazine, a:tracting the atisntion of the continent by Thomas Lawson‘s article on "Frenzied Finance", eame out with q violent attack called "Beware the Porcupine Trap". (What i1 nice one it proved to be caught in!) Remembsring a banquet in Porcupine attended by a number of newspaperâ€" men, the writer recalles the somewhat ‘pirited remarks of Wallace K. I C., director of Dome, in reference to the Canadian press for its lack of faith in Hollinger and Dome and things in genâ€" eral. Victor Ross, of the old Globs crowd, took up the cudgels for the fourth estate and declared the faith of the Canadian in such cfforts as they had that day inspected â€"we had ‘"inspected" these mines, 100kâ€" ing very wise, and, with about as much understanding of them as we would have had of the hieroglyphics . on an Eastern tomb. On the surface it was an untidy, crude looking affairâ€"this Hollinger.© But a few of these newsâ€" papermen sensed something big and new and pregnant in the "mine feelâ€" ing", and, perhaps, in the 1o3k in the eyc of men like Noah Timmins. And their papers and other papers have held thsir faith Since that day, convinced of the the tremendous reality, found for But these "amateurs‘"â€"of whom there are a numbsr in the "drivers‘ seat" of Ontario miningâ€"gathered their La Rose dividends together and went up to the wilderness that now holds a somewhat important naticnal buying factor in the {3rm of a city called Timmins, with a population of 17,000 odd, â€" including nearby scittlements. They saw the rich gold that lurked under the moss, traâ€" velled by the feet of many a trapper and lumberman. They also fognd an ancient, illâ€"placed test pit and a forge at which "some unknown who nevsr‘ icund it" had sharpened his steel.. Laâ€". ter they brought in the engineers and seologists, and Oopinions were freely exâ€" pressed, which, quoted today, would not lock quite so gosd. One man who selieved in the primary, deepâ€"seated nature of the deposits was J. B. Tyrell, M.IMM. At the time he reâ€" presented big English monsy and he recommended that his people take a third interes; in the property (for what iCoked like a piitance when checked against Hollinger‘s total $240,000,000 odd production). The English crowd sent out an engineer and he somewhat scornfully, "turned it down". His verâ€" dict was that the ore wouldn‘t go deep, whila Mr. Tyrell maintained it would go as deep as human ssings had minâ€" ed. That‘s why English money doesâ€" not hold one of the major interesis in Hollinger todayâ€"jus; because of a trifâ€" ling difference of opinion. The pioâ€" | perty nesded more money than the j Timmins ecrsgwd hadâ€"and fina‘ly, after | more rejections, most of the first, vv.en-' turesome money that mads the mine (and which is the only money that realâ€" ly can boast about founding our gold mines) came froim Canadians. the Timmins crowd were going in. Said ons smart executive of a big silver mine: "The Timmins crowd ought to ltake thsir La Rose money and buy a fruit farm in the Niagara Peninsula. Then they‘ll be in something they understand." Into the first frantic burst of Onâ€" tario‘s silver pandemcnium they cam»s, the Timmins brothers, the McMartin brothers, and Dave Dunlop, to pluck the first cObaltâ€"stained plums from the mine found by La Rose, the blackâ€" smith, (igce the hammer and. fox legend). They took their share of wealth (not a big fortune by today‘s standard> from LaRose. As Cobali settled deown, into the picture came Benny Hollinger and Alex Gillies, proâ€" pectors bold, back from a trip to the then remote Porcupine, with rich samâ€" ples of gold. Around the old Cobalt mess a good many engineers and geoâ€" logist sniffed. They were too close to ‘llver to think of gold in Ontario. They sniffed again when they heard For thsse men from the valley new star gleamed, ever Northward! t<w1 for gcologists or Hudson‘s Bay men. He and Dave Dunlcp, the young lawyer, spent many a night. together. It was the atmosphere that breeds Lincolns Lauriers ard Hammsolls and Jowseys. Noan limmins marches on. The first great gold miliionair in Ontario, a: a young man he came out of the Ottawa valley, which is one ¢f the cradieés of our mining giants, Of his failure in a count:y store at Matâ€" tawa, we need say li‘t‘>, exsept that t was the sams sor:i of failure that Timo‘thy Eaton experienced in a 3% of a village in â€"Por‘h county, which cavsed the villagers to say: "Tim Eaten esuldn‘t make good in cur town, y heck!" Ncoah Timmins sat about at nighis, his stors and howms a centre for ths: community and the pitcneer travelâ€" ler, as in the time of his father before him. He talked with the big riskers of thet time, the lumber kings of the Oitawa, ths: railway the river drivers, and the men who had exp!lored into far, new country, p:rhaps as boatâ€" | Noah Timmins cculdn‘t make ‘good in a country storse, perhaps it was becauss his vision‘ couldn‘t be limited | to a paper spill of black pepper, or the 'counting of hen‘s eggs, any more than Timothy Eaton‘s vision could have been circumscribed by ths demand for black thread and women‘s Pustles at Blankâ€" ville, Ont. This upâ€"andâ€"coming Noah certainly didn‘t go into Hollinger on a nicke!lsâ€"andâ€"dimes basis. As his Bibâ€" lical namesake staked all on the ‘Ark to save the ancient human family, so our Noah of the Ottawa Valley plunged with his last dollarâ€"as your true Northâ€" ener always plungesâ€"and came up with the first real Canadian gold mine and the greatest single, untrammelled forâ€" tune in Canada. He plunged forward co greater production and here the inâ€" cvitability of fate‘s mixture of the fair and the foul, the good and the bad, struck him full in the face. Hollinger couldn‘t make the tremendous cbjective of 8,000 tons per day which had been laid down and the grade of ore fell. IThen came the sgrious mine fire of 1928 and for a time the greatest strucâ€" ture on the continent based on gold, trembled. The loss of life was a terrific blow to Noah Timmins. Hollinger managtemert had never cultivated "public opinicn" and the big mine for cnce was vulnerable to the plans of certain interests quick to take advantâ€" age of the disaster in order to "run the public out". And "thumbs down", as usual, from the crowd in the amphiâ€" theatre. If nothing succeeds like sucâ€" cess, then nothing fails like failure, folâ€" lowing a great success. The value of Hollinger on the public market fell rearly $100,000,000 in a few weeks. To Canadian investors, yet to face a more terrific debacle in their "gilt edged" industrial stocks, the decline of Hollinger during that flush time in 1928, was comparable to the possible €ffect of the failude of the Bank of England upon an Englishman. Most severeiblow of all lay in the fact that literally hundreds of Noah Timâ€" He built a fine, modern ci‘yâ€"which was necessary. He built his own secâ€" tion of the railway to the new town. There ars no Utcpian attachments up there, but "that thar Timmins" for twenty years has been a fine modern Canadian city, scattering substantial largess> to every factory and every industry in Canadaâ€"nsw, good, fastâ€" moving unhoarded golden wealth, givâ€" ing fresly by Nature and sent on again as fyeely by man, more benefit to the nation than any other sort of lucre. For, as Milton Carr exâ€"M.P.P., was wont to say: "The Northern man who thinks in terms of nickels and dimes wanrts to have his head read." That‘s the way they feel and talk about money in the Northâ€"which is differen}t from Old Ontario, where some of us know how to squeeze the silver until the juice ecomes out of the maple leaves. The former storekeeper wasn‘t weighâ€" ing out tea, nails, and extending unâ€" limited credit now, however. Nature had spened up a new kind of store for Noah Timminsâ€"with rare goods on the shelves and an eagerâ€"toâ€"buy world as his customer. The golden pigs had commenced to come from the great brood sow of the Northâ€"Old Mammy Hollinger, dam of gold prolific, and a skeptical world shouted: "A fool for luck!" It was a new kind of business for Noah and for Ontario, ut anyone who thinks the element of luck alone made Hollingser should scan the record carefully. If he was a fool for luck, then Noah also was a f3ol for courage and a fool for driving through to a big mine. As Mr. Kipling has it, "he took the chances they wculdn‘t, and now they‘re calling it luck." Canada by a few of hey sons, that has its foundations at the core of the world, despite the efforits of the hamâ€"stringers and the "dumbness‘" of a certain secâ€" tion of the public that persistently misâ€" undersands mining and develops from it only a ruindus complex. â€" Yet, noi all of the Canadian press was willing to venture support on Hollingerâ€"old fyles would be ghosts at a newspapes feast today; but perhaps it was natural that financial writers should rely on mining authorities and doubt the abilâ€" ity of storekeepers who really had no bank standing, to make mines. ul TT nc t ce s oh. Tlmmms f1eld scouts are everywhere have been for two years. Timmins drills and Timmins dynamite are to be heard in many townships; the songs of Noah‘s stesl and powder will echo over miles of formation which have opened the first page of the golden bc¢ok to the prospector. It is known that, based on results shown by ‘the necessarily laborious and slowâ€"moving progress of most jil:al mining devÂ¥lopment, the Timmins interests are endeavouring ito prove the existence of several extenâ€" sive gold deposits, and that they will find, if it is to be found, a mine pr chain of mines greater than any which has been known, a joint mining operâ€" ation which may transcend, in time, all past gold production in Ontario, in Canada, in America. Nature may not provide such a fortuitous set of cirâ€" cumstances, but a Noah Timmins again is ready to cast his bountiful surplus back into the lap of nature. ‘"Bring me the surface gold showings which justify the expernditure and I will expend any amount of money necâ€" essary to develop the property and make more gold mines in Ontario," he is said to have told the head of an But mining men today see in the vigâ€" or of Ncah Timmins a new, reborn ele= ment which may be the force behind the most determined search for gold ore bodies ever launched in Canada, and in those "older" of Ontario which only now are revealing what deâ€" termined field men and prospectors, with little money, (and a high preâ€" mium on gold) may bring out of the rocks during a pericdâ€" depression. As Hollinger regains ground,â€" the: most influential figure, the most potent pioâ€" neering force in Ontario mining history (call it luck, pluck, or marbles, as you will) girds himself with the old armour Sf his early Hollinger courage andgoes forth to war, against pessimists and those who <say that the big mining ‘""Jirds" are content to. nest on their golden eggs. And he goes not merely to regain his lost crown but to set the feet of a new generation ‘"on the rocks‘". Perhaps not the greatest days of Noah Timmins‘ life were those when _he realized that umlimited millicns had ‘poured unto him, and felt a sense of Monte Christo achievement as he surâ€" veysd the thousands who grouped their hcmes in the shadow of the great Mother Mine and the other thousands who drew dividends or orders for goods. Not even the days of greatest trial may compare in characterâ€"searchâ€" ing with the last few years in his dramatic history. In this latter period he has ussd his millions to test new fields, and when he goes in, it is not with a "show me" attitude but with a fcrcefu,l hopeful campaign, backed by the best mining skill and unlimited money. He endeavored to develop KamiskOtia and found much lowâ€"grade copper ore which is in the shop for another day, Itâ€" was his. stropg.right arm that brought Noranda through its testing period, when he and his partâ€" ners cpened the Hollinger treasury reâ€" zerves to assist the young Quebec copâ€" perâ€"gold mine over the hill of doubt and uncertainty. Hollingsr money and Timmins money have been spread over many fields for many years. ’ Then, in another year or two, the great Hollinger was dethorned after years of supremacy as the premier gold producer of America. The monâ€" arch of mines was compelled to abâ€" dicate ih favour of the new upstart at Kirkland Lakeâ€"the suddenlyâ€"becomeâ€" mighty Lake Shore, the unobserved Manâ€"O‘ â€"War that crept up on the vetgran. Even ‘tenâ€"millionâ€"aâ€"year proâ€" duction could not hold ‘the golden trophy. â€" min‘s mining and _ Northern friends went down in the crash. The writer knows of a few of the Hollinger presiâ€" dent triedâ€"to save, but the stock conâ€" tinued to decline. The fortunes of the Timmins group shrank by more than fifiy millions, and to an observer on the sidelines it suggested an application of the Old law of compensation, the pendulum swinging ‘back, back, topplâ€" ing Oover friends, strewing griet in its sweep, all part of Nature‘s grim balance 0f things. Noah had to ride out the storm, anxiously watching, no doubt, for the return of the dove. It is understood that the pulp and paper mills have shown a gratifying spirit of coâ€"operation when approached by Mr. Heenan. The Alsitibi Power Paper CO. was one of the first to agree to assist the Minister of Lands and Forests in his plan, and it will within the next two weeks open up a new mill in the Thunder Bay district, Negotiaâ€" tions along the same line are proceedâ€" ing among other companies, according to word from Toronto. Hon. Peter Heenan last week at Toâ€" ronto announced the idea behind his plan to revive the pulp and paper inâ€" dustry in the North. His scheme is to distribute the present production of pulp and papsr over larger territories in Northern Ontario so that all areas will receive a share of the employment. He is working out plans along this line. At the present time the industry is operating in certain specified localities more or l2ss as before. Mr. Heenan‘s plan is to distribute this work over other areas as well. This will have the effect of lightening ths> burden on municipalities, such as Sturgeon Falls, where there has been a full shutâ€"down 0f the mills, while the burden will be more evenly distributed in other areas it is hoped. Of course, Hon. Mr. Heeâ€" nan hopes also by general coâ€"operation to increase the business of the pulp and newsprint industry in general so as to call for largsr operations all round. Expect Reâ€"opening of Newsprint Mills Hon. Peter Heenan has Plan for the Revival of Pulp and Paper Mills in Varâ€" ious Centres of North. And that Noah Timmins, he of the original golden faith and vision marches on. And as he marches new mines are made, new towns planned and new hope is ths portion of thousands. “GOLD" salu‘tes him, not as person one may like â€"or dislike, agree or disâ€" agree with, but as a force of great courâ€" age, a gaint in mining achisvement, a backer of his oOwn and other men‘s convictions, a .Canadian built of the stuff that this country puts into her pioneers, woOorking in the raw matecrial which a bountiful providence has given mineralâ€"loaded focks which reach the Rockies to Labrador. May he march on for many years! Canada‘s gold mines, out of Nature‘s bounty, have stood the test, better than the manâ€"mads institutions of the world. Canada proceeds to a greater understanding of its mining destiny, realizing that the industry is bigger than all its faults and rapidlyâ€"disapâ€" pearing tricksters and camp followers. They know that the great mine makâ€" ers are nation builders, and that "after the wrecker, comes the builder." A Sunday paper joudnalist, given such a situation, might write from this activity of Noah Timmins a story enâ€" titled "The Battle of the Go!ld Titans". He would argue that if Noah Timmins should find a gold deposit, outranking either Hollinger or Lake Shore, then Harry Oakes, the founder and deâ€" veloper of the present newâ€"crowned "king of gold mines‘", will not long remain quiescent. But we know that, led by Noah Timmins, the gold mining glan‘s ¢f Canada are emerging from their head offices. They Aare looking for mines. WThey have {found: (them and they finally have destroyed the "jinx" which grinned and ‘said that a producing mining company . ‘never should find or make anotherâ€"mine. active exploration Organization. This does not mean reckless expenditure, but rather the most careful examinâ€" ation and test before a dolUlar is exâ€" pended. But it does not mean that one of Canada‘s mining millionaires again has buckled on his sword and is drillâ€" ing his money back into the rocks on the chance of again multiplying these millions. and making new .towns and homes and joos by means of the "unâ€" tainted" wealth that Mother Earth givesâ€"when she elects to do so. Top leftâ€"Noah Timmins. Toprightâ€"Late Duncan Mcâ€" Martin. Lower leftâ€"Latso David Dunlop. Lower rightâ€"Late Harry Timâ€" mins. Centreâ€"The jlate John Mceâ€" Martin. Five Pioneers of the Gold Centre . 1034