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Same prices as in Toronto and Montreal. William 0. Langdon W. G. BOWLES, B.A. South Porcupine - Ont. Township Building LAW OFFICE J. K. Moore All . Lines Represented Byan-Murr_ay__llrug En. LIMITED 5 Pine 8!. South Reed Block Write, Phone or Call. Leave Your Orders for Phone, Call or Write Barrister, Solicitor, etc. ROOM 2 IROQUOIS FALLS. ’ PARIS HOTEL 60:. 6 VOUND Pres. PHONE 19 Sec.-Treas. Some weeks ago Mr. Harry A Preston wrote to the Advance volun- teering to give in fullest detail an acé curate account of the discoveny of the Porcupine as a gold area. Mr. Preston supported his statements in he matter wit-h offers of cold cash to any person who could successfwl'ly dispute his presentation of the facts. No one has yet come forward to refute anything [claimed by Mr. Preston. An outline of his story has been giv- en widest publicity, “but none have shown any desire .to contradict 'him in this matter. Mr. Preston appears to have his" facts and figures at his finger tips and to feel}: himeself in- the 'unasâ€" ,siable position of being the man who knows the «truth and tells it in lstraigh-t fashion. Accordingly The Advance has secured the complete story of the Porcupine as given by Mr. Preston. Here is Mr. Preston’s story :â€" Sometime between'l am. and 12 noon, on April 14th, 1876, there was born at Niagara Falls, 'Ontario, a boy laten named Harry Alridge iPreston. The family home was on the River «Road, just 200 yds. south of the old Great Western 'Railway Suspen- sion Bridge and in view of the great Falls of Niagara. Here, he lived in the old home for :29 years. When around seven years of age ‘he (learned to be a fast walker, and every Sun- day ’his father would take him and his brothers out into the country five or six miles for a walk. Then the fol- lowing Satunday, when there-was [no school; {Preston and his cousin would. hike off to these same places, and it was not long before the lads knew the, country for miles around. Young Presto-n was into anything for pileao sure or moneyamakinm .He had at regular museum in ‘his back-yard. There were frogs, mud-turtles, fish cnabs, «crows and other birds. As he grew older he prospected the Nia- gara Gorge from end to end, sellliin-g souvenirs and guiding tourists below the Gorge.- He saved two lives: he found a man’s skeleton one Satur- day afternoon, and has recovered over fifteen bodies of human beings from the Niagara River. Some of these ‘were drowning accidents; others were suicides. Among them were infants,’ boys, ginls, men! and women. Some are. still in Lundy’s GOLDEN ENCAMPMBNT NO. 107 4 " I.0.0.F. SOUTH PORCUPINL. â€"â€" Meets every second and foumh ‘Wednesday in each month, in I.O.U.F. Hall. Visiting patriarchs welcome. D. Hughes, (LP. 44-5 J. R. Newman, R.S. Geo. Bannerman and Tom Geddes Started the Porcupine Gold Rush, Says Harry A. Preston. The Opening Days of This Great Gold Area as Outlined by Mr. Preston in Letter to The Porcupine Advance. From Wild Man of Whirlpool ._ to Pioneer of the Porcupine Literally hundreds of people have expressed a desire in the past few years to see the story of the Porcupine Gold Camp set 'forth in accurate de- tail. The Advance has been anxious 'to publish such a true and authentic account of the eanlier days of this Gold Area. At various times there have been stories of the early days,â€" interesting and‘no dousbt authentic so far as they went,â€"but they have been fragmentary and incomplete. .' FROM MONTREAL To Liverpool Max 8 ! June 5 ........ M« Ma) 15 ‘ June 12 ...... M Ma} :25) .................. M To Belfastvâ€"Glasgow May 7 | June 4 ........... May 21 I June 18 ......... l May 7 | June 4 ............ Marloch May 21 l June 18 ......... Metagami May ‘38 .................. Montreal To Oherbourg-Southampton-Hamburgw May 30 ................ -. .Murhurnl To 5.:Cherbourg-Southampton-Antwerp ’May 5 i June 3 ....... Minnedosa May 20 June 17 . . . . . . . .' . . Melita PROM QUEBEC To Liverpool May 22 I June 19 ....... Montroyal 1T0 Cherbonrg-Southampton-Hamburg | |May 13 I June 10. .Emp. of Scotland To Cherbourgâ€"Southampton !May ‘26 ‘ June 30. .Emp. of France *Will Call at Panfllac Intead of Cherbonrg.- - ! Sails from New York I . Montclare Montrose . . . .Montcalm (Preston secured a job in 'Cc'halt with Clark Lowery in .their ibilsiaiard parlours, and there he happened to run into Mr. Fairburn, an old Niagara district boy he knew down home. Faivburn said, “I’M have a job pros- pecting in the Spring, and- I want you to he with me as I know youawerc a lucky fellow around Niagara." SO, in March, 1907, Preston and Fair- \burn and Anson Carvtwright and two others got on Contractors McDonald ".5 Muskeg Train for Dhulhugwh] Chutes. At that time the end. of steel ,vra‘s two miles south of the Chutes, and so a team fetched their baggage to the Chutes and from there they pmâ€" ceeded to A-bitibi Lake. Yhe team-- ster who took fllCIll was Mr. Jack Powers, now 9f ‘Timmim, ()Ezlt. \Vefil’, t‘hey amen-t that summer." at Lightning River, {Ghost River, into: Munro and} all thae‘. townships east of M'cDougaEL' Chutes, wanking straight to ”the: Height ei' Land; 0 Mr. Preston began to get the deer- hunting fever around 18%, and starâ€" ted going to Burks Falls each season. Then came the 'Big Moose fever. \Vhen' "the T. N.O. star-ted from North «Bay Preston came to Temagami for his moose. And he got him. There was oniizy one shack where canoes could he had. It was kept by Dan O‘Connor in those days. Temagami Iloo'ked so good to Preston that “he came regularly each season. One year he was there and found that ECo-bailrt was creeping into exis- tence. Preston said to himeself, “If my mother was not 'l'rving', I would be here to settle and to stay.” In 1905 his mother died, and just one month afterwards Harry Pncston made straight for Cobalt and New Ontario. Since then he has only seen his home town for ten days in twenty years. Abitibi to the. Black, and across to Night Hawk Lake, and south to Lntehfar-d. Preston get his pay at Cobalt, ,puzwc‘hased a rifle, and back he- goes to. Elk Lake, when! there were a few ten-ts and one or two» log}: 'liouses. ‘He stopped at: Mullin’s Hotel and there he got in touch! with tWo gentlemen maimed Miller and Middleton who had camps in James. Township. They invited him to go: to the camps and have: his n'loose hunt,‘ which he did. Soon. they had all the meat they wanted. .When his hunt was over; Preston said to his hosts, “Goodabye. I’m going back to Me- Dongall Chutes and Ahitihi‘ Lake, iw‘liere there is gold, and I’m going to stay up there and find a mine.” ' ‘Arz‘eiving back at the Chutes he 'spent .the Winter and following Surn- limer working in the *hotel then run by In the early Fail, the party got- inâ€" to their candies: and? padd’led’ dawn the Lane Cemetery, yet unidentified. During the Pan-.kmerican Exhibition a woman poisoned herself at a Nia- gara Hotel. During June and for months after no one couihd find her name or. where she belonged. ’ Preston used to go to the undertakers, where she was being kept, to see her, and during the following March he was reading a newspaper-l and saw an advertisement about a missing woman. Preston showed the advertisement to the undertaker, and between the two of them, the woman’s identity was eventually fullly disclosed. T. F. King, now of T‘i'mmin's. Presto-n used to tell King he was going: to- diseover a gold mine some day. When Fall came Preston was allow-ed his hollaidays to go to Temagasmi for a moose hunt. He had his hunt, and when he was eating his breakfast in the Remove Hotel, Dan O‘Connor came to Preston to tell him that his town had burned down that night, but this did not change Preston’s [mind about. the gold. ‘So, When he 'had shot -a big Bull Moose, with a. 67- inch sriread ‘he sent. it to the taxider- mist, and then hustled bark touc- Dourrallit Chutes, where he remained 11. ith a friend for a short time, then leax 111<y ton (‘ochrane to 11 ML in an hotel there. It is here where the history of Porcupine begins. W'ell, THE PORCUPINE ADVANCE, TIMMINS, ONTARIO here she goes: . The pioixrietor of the hotel at Coch- rane was a reatixe of Mr. J. S. Wil- son. and Mr Wilson made visits regu- larly. He was living at Driftwood, now called Monteith. M11. \\ illSmI managed to interest W'.S.Ed113rds and T \¢ Jamieson, of Chicago, into grirbstalmng him and a part} to prosâ€" pect for gold and anything else in the mineral line. Wilson 11 as kind enough to hire H. A. Preston as one of his part}. So, along in ‘March. 1909, Pleston helped Wilson to fetch a good supply of grub and outfits by dag teams from Driftwood to Fred- erick‘house Lake. There we put it in (Continued on next page.) ‘::;O,« .:«K och- ,2,\ \\ il- .3 k ream-u wand :99.” r ~:~:~ ..° 3 . 3 ”o .0 o 3 ”o ,. Mm»! I. .00. E20 0 90 :03 90630000. 9 t. - -O.‘ n’, 0 O 0 0 A 230.0090‘93 .0 Q0 om“. O O O vOzozG. . A {#00000 O A O O “090qu 3V0...” O. 70:. O O A v o o o o o 5 6 y unoonoonoonoonoouoouoooouncon. .oooooooooooooooooooznoooooo. p? 3" _ _O_l O 0 v '06:. O O . szizn O C 0:0 .0 C 1 00.. 0000 N .0 609. 00 O. ‘09. .0 N 0000 O. O. 0000 D O V‘w D O O 3 a. 131.3. I D ’t. u '90: VH0 O O .0 D" 1 0:! O O N O I O O. O. 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