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'A int-Hing of th? 1‘1.-p1'osct1tati\'cs X" 1f all the hockey teams in the P01? 4.1:» 'upinc district will he held at the To“ ns1tp oiliccs in the Kim: George letcl. South Porcupine on Bamrday Nov 23 at 8 p.111. {01 the pmposc inf; axrangim: for the Omanization bf 11 district, league. Each team in: the distiict is n-qucsted to send .fiqlegzites. All conununications in )liis connectién should be sent- to :Hbmex; L. Gibson. Secretary of (lip local team, ~ Properties, had his foot rather bad- 1y cut and is leaning for Haiieybury tins mom to have : same atâ€" mnded to. “in. Bert Cartwright will Harry Owens, who has been super intending the work on his Ogden The Greatest on the Continent And \ lth .I Possibly in the World Says a «‘13; Western Mining Authority District Hockey League Meeting PORCUPINE A DEEP MINING PROPOSITION Toronto. NOV. 1’2.-Imnuld Mal- colm McIntyre, 1K. C. , 0i Kingston, has been 11111111111111! 0111111111111 of the Ontmm ' 1L1'Ll\\zu and . Municipal 13111111] in .5111'1'1-ssi11nt t1) the “1111. ii“). 1119111111. Whose elevation to the hfnch made :1 vacancy 1111 the Board. Th1 11111111un1'1r11119nt was made by Sir James Whitney yostmdav and the .1113.“ w chailman, 1t 11;: expected! wigl tail-co up his duties without delay. ”This is the greatest gold mining camp on the continent, both with re- lntion to its ore bodies and its area." said a westem mining man in fireapine thieweek. Discussing thel t'eet. and that between the 600 and subject. he added that there was nol ”00-foot levels they were the rich Birgle camp in the western states. lest. Worvinr on this basis the Fear? western Ganada or in Alaska, that ‘3 Lake began with a view of taking u; could in every respect eternal thegdeep mining. Unfortunately the ori- Porcupine camp. According to his ' ginal owners did not have a eulli‘ statements made the other day of ' eient amount of money to carry out the camp has just commenced. 'l‘he ' these plans and the control passer author of the above remark is a l into the hands of a syndicate in the motor to a certain extent, andmtates and Col. W. l“. Stephenson perhaps inclined to he too optimis-lwell known in Boston. is acting a: tie, yet he is also a mining manfthe trustee of the mine. The mum and has actually mined ore himself. tdeep mining policy was followed out and the force of his argument 'and the first work was done at tht could not but make an in‘npression. l-lOO-foot level where the are average One has but to review the work done by the active mines of the camp to see that deep mining will have to be followed to mine success- fully and to reduce mining cost. The initial cost, the cost that com- es before any results are obtained, will be great and entimly beyond the lim’tations of the ordinary claim holder. but the deep workings of the camp today show the highest. consistent values and the largest ore bodies. Ihe Popular Kingston lawpar Appointed to flntarip Railway Board He pointed out the work of the various mines and the recon! that the l'loll'mg'er has made by paying a dividend at this curly stage of its development. Deep mining is with- out. doubt, the program ol Porcupine both from the experiem‘e of the var- ious mines and the results of underâ€" ground prospecting. This unfortun- ately is expensive and it bears out. the statements made in the earlier days that Porcupine is it rich man's camp. The Pearl Lake mine was probably the first to discover that deep ,ln- ing was essential to its ultimate success. A large amount of diamond drilling wusdonv nn this property and the bodies were prospm'ted by flfllfllll MBINTVHE Vol. I. No. 33 NEW BHMHMM THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE a Bigger, Busier and Better South Porcupine. To have this we must get away from the idea that it is a one man job, and with along pull, a strong pull and pull toget- lher, land Suuth I’o owupinc into the 'lime- light. The 'l‘. at X. 0. management by much hard work have now got'over the onstzwies and ?xpect to see the completion of the line and _the first train running over It before the close of this year. This will tave some record railway construc- tion. and will see the finish of the line within, a few weeks of the time it wouldhaVe beenready had the difficulties to be met not arisen. “Seventeen miles of the steel have now been hi3 (“Said Chhirman Eng- lehart of the T. N. 0., on Saturday afternoon, “and the remaining 13 miles will be rdshod through now without further (hlayf ” The sec- tiom of th line laid is the first ‘sevmto'en’ m les' running west from "Ruffian; , ’ ‘ this means to adepth of about 1100" feet. in the drillimz it was loundl that: the heat Values heqan to come' in the drill cores at about 400 feet. and that between the 600 and? ”00-foot. levels they were the rich-‘ est. Worvimr on this hasis the Pearl; Lake began with a View nl taking up! deep mining. Unfortunately the ori-; urinal owners did not have a wife-9 cient amount of money to carry outl these plans and the control passed into the hands of a syndicate in the states and Col. W. l“. Stephenson. well known in Boston. is acting as the trustee of the mine. The same deep mining policy was followed ante and the first work was done at the! The llullinm'i has {mind that the' further it goes atdepth the greateri are the values. and the s‘tt'nnu‘er thel: \‘einS. 'l‘he \‘ipoml has found wideri veins at the 300 than at the. INN-loot l leVel. 'l‘he Mel'ntyre has best resultsi at the 300 and-WO-iuot levels and the lilelt‘nane} wins are bettet atl depth than in the upper levels. The Dome Extensions drilling showed better values at 5()0.fect than on the upper levels, and so on through the history of the workings mines of the camp. . Record Work on Elk Lake Line New Ontario is“. to’ be the scene of what will be the iiastest railway construction work' yet attempted in this province. This is to he on! the Elk Lake line of the 'l‘imiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway, the line to run between Earlton and Elk City. This line was to have been completed by the of this month, but bad weather coupled witha'dilii- cnlty in securing labor and the lack of sufficient supply Of steel threw the work back a month ore "IO [’0 In the early days when aprospec- tor had a native gold showing on the surface he was afraid to shoot it out thinking that it might be his only possibility of making a sale. Today that idea is exploded and no one in rhe camp-fears to go to depth. There are exceptions, of course, where the values are small and there are such eases as that at the Dome where a b.0wout changes uomlitions. but on the whole it is pretty cirtain that deep mining will be the policy of the camp. .\ meeting of the Board 01 Trade is called for Thursday at 8.15 p.111. A full attendance is required as sev- eral matters of vital importance will come up for discussion. We all want .evel. Board of Trade 9:: Meeting Held IQ- SUUTH POR('UPINE, ONTARIO. CANADA. FRIDAY. NJVEMBER 15th . 191.2. i P. A. Robins, has purchased a 250 “1’. Motor for the Dixon Properterom the Can. Gen. Elect- ric Co.. South Porcupine. i A report was circulated in To- Yronto this week that the men 4Chartered had lost the Davidson ’claim but the rumor was meptly adenied by the officials of the Com- l l \Viptmd Porcupine (lold Mines, have, after considerable invetiitid igation purchased a new oorliss 'valve McKiernan-Terry Wizard Rock Drill from the Can. de. 00., with which they intend to rapidly l prosecute their underground work, ipending the installation of a cyanide iplant. "l‘he management of this Co. :is much gratified at the success of 'their Handing. Mill Installation, :supplied in the Can. de. Co.. as after running.' through 7200 tons, jthey find that the wear on the flinings of their Harding Ball Mill ' was hardly nutieeahle. 'l‘he manage- 'ment is more than pleased with this, as they have always main- 'tained against the opinions with this as they have always maintained a- lgainst the opinions of various emin- 1"” engineers. that the I-lardinge f(‘nnit'a| Hall Mill was. much eheaper 9to Operate. than stamps. The slight ‘lweat' and tear shown after running :thruugh ()‘v’( r 7 mm tons. has prov- en this ttpe of mill as eminenth suc- tessf‘ul in treating,' in Pcteupine ores. puny. The Self-rotating Hammer Drill: which are being demonstrated in the Camp by the Can. P‘dy. (30., are meeting with great success. proving these drills to he the most up to date maehincs manufactured in this line, and upholding this com- pany": claim that their hammer drills do not break steel. “The prospects at Porcupine will not all prove to he mines now, and there are others not so large whose outlook is more than promising. The field was opened under auspicious cir- cumstances in that the two principal (leposits fell into st‘lonq hands, cap- able of proving them without ro- eourse to to the stock market, and that are still in control. Diamond drill bores promise richness in depth, and the situation is full of hope. It must he remembered, however, that there aee as yet no deep shafts In Porcupine, and until much lower levels. are reached it cannot be held Uhat uncertainty is wholly removal. The gold output for this year. however, will be the largest in the history of Ontatio, and 1913 and succeeding years should see many millions of Porcupine gold in cirtnlatiom." The Cobalt Frontenac Mining Co. located in '1‘ udhope Township has dc- \‘eloped a large body of gold ore. av- eraging $40 to the ton according to reports lmvm Cobalt. This is rather remarkable when it is remembered that this company was floated as a silver proposition only it few days ago. HoweVer it is only one more evidenee of the fabulous tit-hes to be uncovered in minim: area of NewOn- larto. In an article dealing with the pro- duction of gold in the prOVince 0f Untario the Canadian Mining Jour- nal has the following to say rela- tive to the l’orcupi'ne (-amp : “'l‘here lay in the vault of one of the city banks the other day, a cou- ple of gold bars values at $35,000, the product of the l-lollinger mine. 0n the Rand or in the‘great gold mines of Australia or the Western States the bars would have excited no more comment than a shipment of silver bars from Cobalt. yet on the floor of the bank vault in Tor- onto, to an enthusiast in Ontario gold mines, the bricks were a pro- phesy. an earnest of zmighty things yet to be.” a large [xu't-c-ntuue of the men en- gaged in cummnn lulmr throughout the United States, and if the war is protracted it is likely to assume War between Turkey and neighbor- ing countries has a direct influence upon the minim: industry through the number of (ireek luhorers it has caused to return to Europe. The drain is already severely felt in some quarters. and the exodus still continues. Southern Europeans form 2m unpreccdomcd degree of practical importance to the American public, accustomed to regard ustxu'bzmccs in the Balkans as of similar signifi4 ounce to growing pains in children. Mining News fliVElfll’llE IN JAMIESUN THWNSHIP Porcupine Independence dpening lip Ineir Properties Operated By Boston Capitalists Another Very las'ourahle indication of the awakening interest in the Kamoscolia Lake section of the camp. is the recent announcement that The Porcupine Independence Mining ('o.. Ltd.. willtest out their properties in Jamieson Town- ship by diamond drilling. This company owns nine, 40 acre claims. making a total (if 300 no- res in Jamieson Township. upon which several thousand dollars have already been spent in surface work. with very encouraging results. 'I‘Ie company is practically a close corâ€" poration. and its aflairs are in the hands of well known mining men of Boston. Mass. These properties were among the first ones staked during the rush in- to the distriet in the fall of 1909, and have been izwournbly reported upon by ditierent mining men. Sev- eral competent judges have express- ed the opinion at difierem times that the Kallltim‘ntin Lake section of the Porcupine camp will turnout to be Olle of the best parts of the dis- trict. emnplishments. who came from lluntoekes. St'otland seven months ago. and made a host of ”ends since her arrival in South Porcu- pine. Mr. Quinn since coming to our town has taken his place a- mong: those who go to 'make up the desirable citizens of a community. Being in business he comes into con tact with a large number of our people and all who have met him either in business or in a social way have counted the meeting both a pleasure and an honor. He is at all times courteous and oblig-ing, possessing a personality which in- spires all who have dealings with him, with confidence and trust. and all gladly welcome 'him to the mem- bership of our cmnmurjty. Detroit capitalists have already surveyed and' laid out a townsite on the lake. and have been husy cutting roads and trails to the principle surrounding properties. It is also rumored that some of the strongest mining interests in the camp, will soon take over a well known pro- perty in 'l‘urnbull Township, just south of .lamieson. Much acticity is predicted for that section during the coming winter. - .-.\ S. Fuller. :1 local minim: man is lepmted to be heavil) intetes ed in The Pom-[mine Independence Min- ing Co.. Ltd. Married at South Porcupine Both these young people are so \Wll known to our readers that it is not at all necessary for us to enumerate their many virtues. The bride is a young: lady of many :10- complishménts. who came from Duntockes. Swotland seven months Mr. and Mrs. Qui'nn intend taking Up their residence in South Porcuâ€" pine and we but voice the sentiâ€" ments of all our citizens in express- ing the hope that they will dwell long in our midst and that each year of the journey along life's road will'be full of beam), wealth. and happiness. Last Tuesday evening at eight o'- clock occurred the marriage of two estimable young people, Mr. Robert Arthur Quinn, and Miss .leanie Clark llandyside. Rev. W. (i. Wakefield and Rev. George K. llamford oiliâ€" (-iating. 'l‘he serviee tallng place at the home of the bridegroom in the presenee of the friends of the ('on- trading,r parties. The bride was at~ tired in a dress of navy blue chil- fon tal'fette. with front. of cream silk embroidery and was attended by Miss (Hive l’earee who made a charming. little bridesmaid. At the close of the ceremony the ('ompany sat down to delightful and deliCious wedding supper, after which the health of the bride and bride- groom was proposed and heartily received. The happy pair were the recipients of a number of beautiful and useful presents. there being a quantity of cut glass, silverware, etc., but the best gift of all is the united gmml wishes ()f the entire community. The Famous Burns Property Which Has Lain Idle for Nearly Two Years to be Developed American Goldfields Apex ...................... Big Dome Dnbic ...................... Crown Chartered ......... 02! .03 “(mm Extension ...... .10 .10; home Lake ............... .11 12 Eldnmdo .................. Foley O'Brien ............ 6 26 .28 Gold Rec! ..................... Hollingvr ....... r. ............ 14.80 15.00 Jupiter ..................... .38 385 Moncta ........................ .04 05 McIntyre .................. 2.50 2.75 Pearl Lake .................. .25 25% Porcuoine Imperial .02} .02; RUSHING DEVELOPMENT ON THE TOMMY BURNS Dovelonmont in real earnest, has been started on the Tommy Burns property in South Eastern Shaw Township all necessary surface (quip- mcnt. will be installed at once. The shaft now 60 feet in depth will be continued to at least. 250 ft. Stat- ions will be cut. at the one anh two hundred loot low-ls whore cross- muting and drilling will he done to test the ore bodys in the vicin- ity of the shalt. Porcupine 'I‘isdalc Seven months ago new four or five of the imst eminent mining en- gi‘ncers on this continent visited l’or- eupine for the first time. When eupine for the first time. When they reached the Holli'nger Mr. Roll)- liins explained in detail his assay plans and his methods of sampling whereby he arrived at his ore re- serves. Afterwards he continued 2-â€" “Gentlemen, I have so much faith in my conclusions that I Will 'do this. I v1.11 give you all the tools necessary to sample and 1 will pro- vide you with assistants; now you can no down in the drifts and cut your own samples, and when you come up make your assays and com- pare them with my assay sheets. er mine is producing $10,000 a week, and can do better than that it is quite safe to base arguments upon that output. As a “matter of fact, the report does: not do full his-tim- tn the mine. The ordinary shareholder. who has a much better idea of an aeroplane than a mine, will read everything preceded by the dollar Sign and take everything for granted relating to the physical condition 0: the mine. But someone may point out. to him that the report of development on the third level does; not look very reassuring. The No. l Vein is still the backbone of the mine and the No. ] vein at the third level gives A Diamond Drill will also be in- stalled and will be used in promis- The following are the prices on Porcupine stocks. furnished by A. S. Fuller 00., Gibson Block, South i’ormipi'nv. to noon November N :â€"- Bid. Asked. American Goldfields 40 'l‘he lust doubler of the ability of the I’m'cuoine camp to produce. gold shuuld have been convinced with the recent «tutemem submitced by the Jfolli'nger; if he is not, he is not; open to persuasion and must not open to p: be selling short As it happened the itinerary did not permit of this interesting ex- position, 'but it is svaruoly possible to imagine a more searching Nest of an engineer's r-rmclusiuns. And since Mr. Robbins says that the Holling- Veins Widening With Depth--Richer Ore Body at Three Hundred Foot Level HOLLINGER CONDITIONS BETTER THAN REPORT Stock Quotations Preston East Dome 09} Ron. Mines .................. .36 Standard .................. Swastika .................. .081 \‘ipond ........................ .lf I'ni (ml Porcupine ...... 005 West Dome ............... .10 int: sections of the property where other development work has not. been done. These. properties are well known to all who have had oeeaa‘hn to sislt this paIt ol the CW They haw easih the most spectacular tree gold showings on the surface. in the entire district. and it is he- lioved by many that this Company will developr an immense body of payable are with the possibility o! prmlng to he one of the best. pro- positlon in the Porcupine District. Whilv doing ussowmmt work on the l'mwll-(‘nrtwright claims in Doloro south of the Preston East Dome probably tln- mini: which has been employed (here all summer. opened a tWo-foot quartz vein. The vein was a promising looking one and a test pit was sunk on it. Aher going to a depth of nine feet the two-foot body wkknul out to eignt feet and in the bottom showed native gold in' small quantities. Free Gold on PowelltClaims the IOU-foot level and poor on the 2300, and therefore it was only to be expected that it would be pover- ty-strieken on the (WU-loot. Nor, might say the critic, is it absol- utely certain that the vein will grow rich again as it did on the other levels. According to the re- port, that is true enough, but as a matter of record a diamond drill has been operated from the end of the drift and the core shows $30 ore in a Vein far above the llollinr ger average in width. Perhaps the lay reader may not understand either that the run of ore that has been put through to date not in any way represent the mine. The big dump that has hech accumulating since the first shaft was sunk has now almost all been milled some of the waste rock from the crosseuts has been put through. It naturally ran down the average grade per ton. Now more and more of the ore will come fnom the stopex and the aveeage per ton will probably run over $30. an ‘ assay. :u'cm'dim: m the I‘(‘[)Ol't, of but $8.40 a ton. against $31.54 :1 ton at the “IO-font. level, and $15.74 at tho. BOOâ€"foot level. To be sure, Mr. Robbins has a footnote ex~ pla‘ining the discrepancy, but to the comfort. 'l‘hcfact, is that. the only dcveIOp- ment on the No. l vein shown in the report. x'us accomplished [n a [can spot in the vein; it. was on 'l‘hcrc is no doubt in the light of the report that $90,000m'cry four weeks is a ('xmscrvatiw: (liV'idcnd, and there is every probability that. Shareholders will receive a bonus when it is most needed, say, on or about the new year when the hawk-- 1351 table is sombre with bills. a y Susan: (hymns 5, Costs. mind it d 005 ...... 00! 08k 03‘} 18} 18; not gi vc much