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The Porcupine Advance The significance of the dropping of stamp: in the Dome mine mill is not. easily grasped by those not. familiar with conditions in the Porcupine gcld It will be readily understood by ill that the important event meant the first production of gold in Por- wpinc. but its tremendous cflect on the camp as a whole will not be so easily understood. It is less than three years since the first discovery of gold was made on the shores of Porcupine Lake. sl- thongh reports of valuable deposits in the district of Night Hawk Lake were published over four years ago. And it was only in the year 1910 that Messrs. Noah and Henry Tim- mine expressed their faith in the lat.- er discoveries by taking over the Hollinger claims at a price which staggered mining men of less cqur- age and foresight. And to the Messrs. Tinimins must be given due credit for the wonder- ful Porcupine of today. Previous to their entry into the new field the history of gold mining in Canada was not of a nature calculated to instil coniidcnve into the costly pru cons of opening up new territory .unl the achivwment of the l‘immins .-.\n- (limit! is all the more Worthy of iita ting recognition. when the. round of the l-lollinger mine, in surh a brief period. is considered. But not so. Porcupine readily yielded to the slow process of initial development to such an extent that ‘in a very short time at least two shipping mines were assured, and persistent work proceeding apace on several other promising properties. ‘In July last year, when the camp “was on the point of production, it received a staggering blow from *which it is only now recovering. The tremendous expenditure of labor and the enormous investment of capital *in costly machinery and adequate buildings was brought to nought by :an avaimche of fire. which not only wiped out all the ehort expended,but as we“ covered the golden surface with the charred bones of many brave and hopeful men and women, whose lives were sacrificed in heroic fellort to demonstrate that their con- fidence in Porcupine was not misplac- ‘But ’eVen this horrible calamity ‘12.“ to stem the torrent of harsh "criticism directed against the new Since the first discoveries were made Porcupine has passed through many trying periods and suhminted to an oVer-ahundance of harsh (uh- ~cism. The district was so as); of access that the novice and tender- foot and skeptic had little .lifliculty in invading the new camp and giving utterance to opinions based on the merest pretence of mining Knowledge and skill. Other districts aad re- vealed equally promising surface showings, only to he abandoned by those who undertook to develop. Porcupine, it was claimed, would share the fate of many other desert- ed camps. camp. many unthinking people con- eluding that the last had been heard of Porcupine. Porcupine has been condemned by several eminent authorities and sev- eral prominent mining concerns have =entered her borders more than once only to withdraw. Promoters lack- ing alike in technical knowledge and finances have attempted tasks with- out the slightest hope of accomplish- ment, and the wildâ€"catter has not contributed largely to the welfare of the camp. The speculating public has not always realized their foudest hopes at the hands of the brokers, and the immense area over which free gold has been found on the sur- face has given rise to a demand for Canada. United ‘talou 8E0. [ML PROP. w. a rmusou. . Emma. Published every Friday by Advertising Rate. Furnished Phone 26. QUBSCRIPNUI R ITFSt $2.00 a you. 3 00 a "If of owners. by reason of which 3 er development was natunlly tarded. And yet from the ashes of the dead has arisen in a few short months what promises to he the greatest. of all gold camps, as witness of which the musical thunder of the ’ Dome stamps and the McIntyre stamps is annle testimony. Like. other im- portant gold camps the future of? Porcupine depends solely on the ex- tent of ore bodies and their approxi- mate value. In this respect the camp is particularly: fortunate. for these rhodiea are here remarkable for their icontinuity and depth. .{ Aside from the lâ€"lollinger and Dome ’there are many other mines which will soon reach the producing stage. and to that end a tremendous amount of work is now in progress. This work is the more easily per- formed now that railway facilities are right at the mines and supplies can be laid down at much less ex- pense. Electrical energy is available at a reasonable price and labor of a high class is procurable for all to- quiremcnts. Conditions generally are a hundred per cent. better than a year ago. and when the progress made in the past iew months is contemplated. one hesitates to predict the extent of de- velopment during the coming year. Porcupine has at last come into its own and w“! hereafter be reckoned with the really great gold camps. The properties on which the greater iimount of development work has been prosecuted have “made good,” and who will say that eventually Porcupine will not he known as the “erratum-t gold vzuup in the world?” [Tudor the caption. “Sir James Dc- cidon.” the Canadian Minim,r Journal refers in part as follows to the al- iotnwnt of $5,000,000 to the opening up of Northern Ontario: “Sir James Whitney electrifiedxthe Legislative Assen‘o‘fly of Ontario, gladdened the hearts of all those who live in the new north. and adminis‘ tered a terrific solar plexus to the vaulting ambition of the Leader of the Opposition. by delivering himself of the news that his Government was prepared to spend the vast sum of $5,000,000 in colonizing Northern On- tario For the purpose of controlling ex- penditure a special commissioner is to be appointed. His task will be sullicicntly onerous, fox the territory is enormous. the needs of each sec- tioniare apparent and premiug,‘ and no amount of money could conceiv- ably satisfy everybody. Yet :the judi- cious distribution of $5,000,000 will go far towards ameliorating condi- tions that are now intolerable. Roads, of course, are the first need. Then, gradually, all the other prime essentials of transportation and com- merce must come. Already the Gov- ernment has had several lessons in the,oart of making roads-mat least it should have learned by this time how not to make them. So the North may reasonably hope for practical sympathy and help. The Government of Ontario has taken a serious view of its duties. It has risen splendidly to the occa- sion that now offer". In all its fu-‘j ture ellorts to open and colonize the north it must not. however, lose sight of the fact that the country was opened first by the prospector and the miner, that the mining in- vestor has spent millions in roads and general culture, and that with- out the mines of today and of to- morrow the Province would be poor- er by many millions of dollars. It is the bounden duty of the Government not to overlook in any respect the welfare of the mining communities. For a long time to come agriculture :will be entirely tributary to min- ting.” “Aside from the fuet that the re. sult of the election in British Co- lumbia was a high and deserved tri- bute to the ability and faithfulness of the Hon. Richard McBride. prem~ ier. the issue upon which the fight was won is extremely significant. ’ FIVE MILLIONS B. C. ELECTIONS which great- Premier McBride hu gmtly inâ€" “. creased the prestige of the province. 'md very much of the remarkably rapid progress noted in British Co- lumbia is due to his able and hr- sighted leadership. iturslly ; of the dead iOl'i months A.-AA-_ -l In the recent election Mr. McBride appealed to the people of the pro- vince on a progressive issue. and the people have sustained him with tell- in: emphasis. Tho controlling issue in the cam- paign was the question of important railroad extensions. all intended to put fertile and productive interior sections of British Columbia in clos- er and more direct touch with the coast. The McBride program was a con- structive program. and its approval by the people of the province will mean the opening oi new land areas of great fertility, the establishment of many new industries and ulti- mately a must increase in the com- merce of the proVinoe. As these developments will have an important bearing upon all ’the ports. of British Columbia. the result of the election becomes of intimate. im- portance to the people of Seattle and other Coast cities of this section. British Columbia is going ahead at a rapid pace. and with a leader of Mr. Mellride's astute aggressiveness to guide the destinies of the pro- since. it will continue to go ahead.” The persistency, perseverance and courage of the Porcupine mining man and the Porcupine people are now rc~ cciving their just reward. It seemed impossible to favorably impress the outside world and espe- eiallv the prees, with the importance of the camp and the great future soon to be revealed when the gold area had recovered not. only from many natural obstacles, but as well from the devastating efleets of the tire head, which carried away in its relentless ferocity eVery \‘estige of mining progress which had been pro- cured at tremendous cost unaccom- panied by any source of revenue. We would like to print all these kind words, and perhaps will, but. for this issue a clipping from the editorial columns of the Toronto Globe will suffice. panied by any source of revenue. It is, therefore, most gratifying,r to note that nearly all the city dailies comment most favorably and at much length on Porcupine, as reveal- ed to their representatives who at- tended the Big,Dome demonstration. Under the heading, “Values at. Depth," the editorial reads: “A demonstration such as occurred in South Porcupine at the end of last week was required to direct the attention of the rest of Canada to the faith of capital, guided by the highest technical advice, in the per- manency of the new gold camp. In the face of tremendous obstacles, and with the results of one year's labor deVastated in a day-by fire, the For- cupine camp is now passing from the explorative to the productive stage. There are four mills in the district, two in operation and two under con- struction. Fifty stamps are dropping on the quartz from two properties, and by midsummer probably two thousand tons will be treated-daily. The history of gold mining in Can- ada has been mostly a recital o“ blighted hopes, but no area has ever before received the benefit of the in- telligent investment of capital and of expert management with which. the Porcupine. field has been laVored, and no other field has produced anything like the values upon development at depth. Diamond drill cores, while affording no conclusive evidence as to the existence of large ore bodies, haVe, nevertheless, indicated very strongly that values in Porcupine continue with depth, and tests of this nature have been extended to over one thousand feet below the surface. Commercial ore has been blocked out at a depth of three hun- dred feet. and while it has still to be proved that Porcupine is a gold field of worldwide importance, a life [of several years for two or three ipropvrties at least may be foregast- ied with a considerable degree of 091'- i tainty. Mr. Ambrose Monell, whose capital and scientific study of the nickel orc-s GREAT IS PORCI'I’INE THE PU RCUPINE ADVANCE of Sudbury haw‘c created a vast in- dustry there, and who has now brought the Dome mine nt‘Porcupine to a producing stage, expressed the same view at the Porcupine banquet on Saturday night, when he 81 id that much remains to be done in the way of development work before any real judgment could be formed as to the ultimate extent and character of the Porcupine district. But Mi. Monell and his associates have ex- pressed most forcibly their belief in their own property by the expendi- ture of over $1,000,000 upon plant alone, and by the engagement 101' de- velopment work of possibly the fore- most mining experts in America. The widespread occurrence of gold in the Porcupine district encourages the hope that other mines may Come into being. The existence of gold, silver, and nickel has been proved with relatively little prospecting.and the opening of the Grand l‘runk l'a- cific to the north of Porcupine may probably mean a material exp union in the area of the mineral industry. The distinguished mining engineers, who. after attending the annual meeting of the Mining Institute here recently, visitedthe Cobalt and Porâ€" cupine camps, agreed that Northern Canada from Ungava to Dawson City furnished the most fascinating field in the world for the mining pros- pector, and the events of the past few months in Porcupine may be the small but substantial beginning of a new mining era. " Cobalt has its Cobalt Lake and Porcupine has- its Porcupine Lake. The former is a well-known and proâ€" mising mining enterprise, while the latter is fast coming into prominence as a rich area. To this end the diamond drilling in the bed of the lake by the manage ment of the Porcupine Lake Gold Mining Company has been going on steadily for some time. The drill is set on the ice fully 400 feet west of the lake banks. ‘The big ridge on the east shore of the 'iake will be cut at about 750 feet. 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Duff, Distric‘t Pass Agent , Toronto. ’igllt 'l'rains carry up-t igllted Pullman Sleeping C TRADERS BANK Has the followmg offices in the Porcupine GOId District; New Vein Struck [FOR SAL Head Office Toront‘ “WU”- -.u- -u- -vv ‘0.- A new vein has been encountered on the Plenaurum at Pearl Lake, be- In stock at present a supply of Re- tween shafts one and two at the 200- built Portable Engines and Boilers, foot level, Which is BUPDOBOd to 0X' on wheels and skids, from 10 to BC tend under the bottom of the lake, horsepower, and BhQWS Wide?“ 0; high Kalliâ€"es. I Traction Engines, all sizes. PORCUPINE and COBALT STOCKS J. M. WALLACE The fortunate location of the Plen- aurum renders it most probable that this mine will pick up some of the big leads associated with other' big mines in the vicinity. Member Standard Stock and Mining Exchange Phones Main 1044-5. Toronto. Aura Lake South End C. H. Day, J. D. Tipton, , Manger Haileyhu'y Man-[er Porcupine Branch: .4 Branch also at Haileybnry Transfers of money by mail or telegraph can b: made through anv Branch of this Bank. Travellers going into Porcupine are invited to avail themselves of the advice or services of the managers of the above-mentioned branches. On Plenaurum 39w was. Cspitsl sud Surplus, - 3 6,800,000 Ton! Assets, - - 3 52,000,000 INCORPORATED, 1885. OF CANADA. THE 83w Mills, Engines, 'Jllers. Threshing Mnehlnery, new. Second land and {chant Stationary Engines and Boilers various sizes, some good second bani stock. Some good Rebuilt Saw Mills, 31 well as new ones. i Threshing Machines, new and re: built. Write for particulars and prices. Ihe Baht. Bell Engine 8! Ihreshew 00., Ltd. Se'aforth, Ont