The Timmins Rock are a Junior "A" ice hockey team from Timmins , Ontario, Canada. They are a part of the Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League (NOJHL).
66-786: The Timmins Golden Bears became members of the NOJHL in 1991. The Golden Bears won their league championship in 1995. In 1999, the Timmins Golden Bears relocated to Iroquois Falls, Ontario , and became the Iroquois Falls Jr. Eskies. After three seasons, the Jr. Eskies re-branded as the Abitibi Eskimos. Attendance improved and the Eskimos played good-quality hockey. The Eskimos hosted the 2007 Dudley Hewitt Cup , but lost
132-489: A board of trade was chartered in 1926. The paper mill created a dramatic change to the area, and people migrated to the community for work. The creation of the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway (now Ontario Northland Railway ) greatly boosted the economy as there were few roads at the time. As Iroquois Falls grew, two new communities within the town began to emerge. An area known first as "The Wye" (because
198-548: A change of -2.6% from its 2016 population of 4,537 . With a land area of 599.03 km (231.29 sq mi), it had a population density of 7.4/km (19.1/sq mi) in 2021. Resolute Forest Products announced the permanent closure of its mill in Iroquois Falls on 5 December 2014, eliminating 180 jobs. Mayor Michael Shea commented: "it's going to affect every village in Northern Ontario." In 2015,
264-581: A city in northeastern Ontario , Canada, located on the Mattagami River . The city is the fourth-largest city in the Northeastern Ontario region with a population of 41,145 at the 2021 Canadian census and an estimated population of 44,819 in 2023. The city's economy is based on natural resource extraction. It is supported by industries related to lumbering, and to the mining of gold, zinc, copper, nickel, and silver. Timmins serves as
330-467: A company town by Frank Harris Anson, owner of the Abitibi Power and Paper Company . Anson had been influenced by the garden city movement of urban planning, and was committed to building an elaborate town. A Chicago architectural firm was hired to design the landscaping and houses, and work crews began clearing land in 1913. The town's park and commercial developments were clearly separated from
396-414: A company town. The combined mines behaved more like a "very influential industrial citizen", rather than a single company that dominated all aspects of civilian life. As the worker population grew, these camps started to mesh together as a single town. (Torlone later served as the municipal Chief Administrative Officer.) On July 10, 1911, unusually hot and dry temperatures caused small fires to ignite at
462-613: A familiar sight in the region, but there was little commercial interest due to the area's inaccessibility. The extension of the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway to Cochrane in 1907, allowed prospectors to more easily access the area. This sparked an interest in the region's natural resources, leading to the Porcupine Gold Rush . The first known prospectors were a team led by Reuben D'Aigle . They set out for Porcupine Lake in 1907 and dug several test pits in
528-693: A full surrounding of seats, a Curling rink with five playing surfaces, a cafeteria and a licensed lounge. A pool was added in 1979, and the complex was renovated in 2007. The Iroquois Falls Curling Club is located at the arena. The arena is currently home to the Iroquois Falls Storm and was formerly home to the Abitibi Eskimos , Iroquois Falls Jr. Eskis and Iroquois Falls Eskis of the Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League . Each summer brings
594-549: A group of residents to establish a third community named Victoria in the north-west section of the town. The name was later changed to Montrock. In 1979, the three communities were amalgamated into one town named Iroquois Falls. The paper mill, then called Abitibi-Price, merged with Stone-Consolidated, and then with Donohue Forest Products, and finally with Bowater to create Abitibi-Bowater. On 17 April 2009, Abitibi-Bowater sought bankruptcy protection, emerging from it as Resolute Forest Products. A tragic event occurred in 1984 at
660-489: A population density of 13.9/km (36.1/sq mi) in 2021. In Timmins, according to the 2021 census, 60.26%% of the population reported English as their mother tongue ( Anglophone ), 34.25%% reported French ( Francophone ) as their first language, and 5.49% reported a non-official language, neither English nor French, as their first language ( Allophone ). 50.8% of the population is bilingual in English and French. From
726-524: A provincial prison serving a regional catchment area, is located in the community of Monteith (named for Samuel Nelson Monteith ). The background of the town's name varies depending on the source, attributing it to invasions by the Iroquois on Huron or Ojibway villages. It is also unclear who has relayed the tale, settlers or the First Nations people themselves. Iroquois Falls was built as
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#1732787937468792-523: A regional service and distribution centre. The city has a large Francophone community, with more than 50% of the residents bilingual in French and English. Archaeological evidence indicates that the area has been inhabited for at least 6,500 years. The first inhabitants were nomadic peoples of the Shield Archaic culture . At the time of European contact , the area was inhabited primarily by
858-576: A surveyor and cartographer for the Hudson's Bay Company , established a trading outpost at Fredrick House Lake , about 30 km (19 mi) north-east of present-day downtown Timmins. Although beaver fur was plentiful and still in demand in Europe, the trading post was not successful. Nearby competition, and the difficulty of navigating the Abitibi and Fredrick House rivers by canoe, often resulted in
924-464: Is approximately 70 kilometres (43 mi) to the southwest. The following communities are also within the municipal boundaries: Monteith , Nellie Lake , and Porquis Junction . Iroquois Falls' primary industry was a large mill producing newsprint and commercial printing papers. In December 2014, the owner, Resolute Forest Products , announced its permanent closure. There are also three hydro-electric dams nearby. The Monteith Correctional Complex ,
990-566: Is no BC representative. Round-robin play in two 5-team pools with top three in pool advancing to determine a Champion. Iroquois Falls, Ontario Iroquois Falls is a town in Northern Ontario , Canada, with a population of 4,537 at the 2016 census . The town centre lies 11 km east of Hwy 11 on the banks of the Abitibi River , west of Lake Abitibi . Timmins , one of the largest cities in northern Ontario,
1056-458: Is served by: Canadian musician Stompin' Tom Connors sang "May, the Millwright's Daughter" on his 1967 album The Northlands' Own Tom Connors : In a little town called Ansonville, not very far from the papermill. There lives a girl I'm thinkin' of, May, the millwright's daughter, the girl I really love. Timmins Timmins ( / ˈ t ɪ m ɪ n s / TIM -ins ) is
1122-595: The Cochrane Crunch would be too much for them to handle in the next round, and they defeated the Rock in 4 straight. Jordan Rendle would pace the team with 30 goals, while Zachary Kercz had a team high 55 assists and 81 points. Logan Ferrington appeared in net 35 times for the Rock, and finished with a 20–13–1 record with a 3.94 GAA. The Rock averaged 595 fans per game at the McIntyre Arena , second highest in
1188-656: The Cree and Ojibwe peoples. The first Europeans to make contact with the local Indigenous peoples were French explorers in the late 1600s. The first attempt at a permanent European presence in the area did not come until 1785, nearly two decades after Great Britain defeated France in the Seven Years' War and took over its territory in North America east of the Mississippi River . Philip Turnor ,
1254-528: The hemiboreal humid continental climate ( Dfb ). Timmins has cold and snowy winters, being located in Northern Ontario . Temperatures in late summer and autumn tend to be among the coolest for any non-coastal major city in Canada. During the late spring and summer, temperatures can rise considerably, sometimes accompanied by high humidity and unstable air masses. The highest temperature ever recorded in Timmins
1320-560: The "Search for Moby Pike" fishing derby on Lake Abitibi . 'MusicMusicMusic' was an annual live event on the second weekend of August, and featured local musicians raising funds for community charities. The Porquis Blues Festival, later renamed the Porquis Music Festival, was an annual festival in Porquis Junction, a small community south-west of Iroquois Falls. The last festival was in 2022. Iroquois Falls
1386-467: The Dome Mine held meetings about reopening within two days of the fire. The camp was quickly rebuilt with help from various communities around Ontario, and operations soon resumed. The fire burned the thin layers of moss and soil characteristic of a Canadian Shield landscape. This revealed previously unknown veins of gold and other minerals, which helped facilitate economic recovery efforts. Given
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#17327879374681452-661: The Hudson's Bay Company. More than a century later, in 1906, Treaty 9 was signed between Anishinaabe ( Algonquin and Ojibwe ), Omushkegowuk Cree communities, and the Canadian Crown . It required the Mattagami First Nation to move to the north of Mattagami Lake and to cede territory. The presence of gold in the area was long known to the local indigenous people, and the few Europeans who had settled nearby. Outcroppings of gold-bearing quartz were
1518-537: The McIntyre mines ceased operations having produced around 11 million troy ounces of gold. In 1973, 35 townships covering 3,300 km (1,260 sq mi), including Porcupine , South Porcupine , Schumacher , and Timmins were organized into the City of Timmins. The city's population peaked in the mid 1990s, when the city became a regional service and distribution centre for Northeastern Ontario. However, with
1584-686: The Okanaghan Hockey Academy and the team completed the season without a head coach. Brandon Perry was then hired as the head coach and general manager for the 2021–22 season. Canadian Jr. A National Championships Maritime Junior Hockey League , Quebec Junior Hockey League , Central Canada Hockey League , Ontario Junior Hockey League , Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League , Superior International Junior Hockey League , Manitoba Junior Hockey League , Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League , Alberta Junior Hockey League , and Host . The BCHL declared itself an independent league and there
1650-579: The Porcupine area states that a man named Harry Preston slipped on moss and uncovered gold. In some versions of the story, he is responsible for triggering the Porcupine Gold Rush. However, historical records contradict both claims. Harry Preston arrived in the Porcupine area as a part of a team led by Jack Wilson in June 1909, where they discovered a large "dome shaped quartz outcrop". Wilson
1716-417: The Porcupine mining camp at around 3:30pm, and continued as far north as Cochrane . The total number of deaths remains uncertain, with the lowest estimates being 73 and the highest suggesting there were more than 200 dead. A number of people drowned after fleeing into the lake in an attempt to escape the heat and smoke; others were killed by smoke while still trapped underground in the mine. The executives of
1782-430: The Porcupine settlement. These were initially described as a series of "bushfires", but strong winds spread them into the dry forest and they expanded. Evacuation efforts began on the morning of July 11, with women and children being ferried to the opposite end of Porcupine Lake. The small fires eventually merged, and grew into a single wall of fire, estimated to be at least 32 km (20 mi) wide. The fire destroyed
1848-757: The Sandy Falls Golf Club, the McIntyre Community Building and the Timmins Snowmobile Club. Snowmobiling impacts the Timmins economy, as tourists travel from all over North America to explore area trails. Hollinger Park is one of the city's main recreational spaces. The park is divided in two sections, the north side being the public park area, with the south side having a regulation sized baseball diamond and two soccer fields for more organized outdoor recreational endeavours. The baseball park has been home to
1914-610: The Second World War, around a third of the city's population were enlisted into the armed forces. Timmins had its own bomber squadron known as "Porcupine Squadron No. 433", a heavy bomber unit of No. 6 group RCAF in Skipton-on-Swale , England . Timmins' economy suffered slightly during this period as women were prohibited from working in mines under the Ontario Mining Act, leaving no one to replace
1980-574: The Timmins Men's Baseball League since 1985. Former Timmins resident Shania Twain played a concert at Hollinger Park on July 1, 1999. An estimated 22,000 people attended the outdoor concert. The Pioneer Museum is located 39.5 km (24.5 mi) northeast of the city centre in Connaught , a community of 400 people. Nearby communities include Barbers Bay, Dugwal, Finn Road, Hoyle, Ice Chest Lake, McIntosh Springs and Nighthawk. Local history in
2046-587: The Timmins area, as described by a journalist for TPA: Before six o’clock on Monday morning, the news had reached Timmins that the Armistice had been duly signed and the fighting was thus over for the present. Timmins at once commenced to celebrate and kept it up all day and most of the night. First, the fire bell rang; then all the other bells and all the steam whistles joined in the chorus, the outgoing T&NO train adding its due quota of joyful noise. Flags and decorations were brought out, and from an early hour in
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2112-545: The Timmins camp quickly surpassed the Porcupine and Schumacher camps in population. Timmins was incorporated as a municipality on January 1, 1912. In November 1912, 1,200 members of the Western Federation of Miners Local 145 held a strike at all three mines in response to a proposal to lower their wages. Mine operators hired gun thugs, who fired on the picket line and were ordered out by the provincial government. After months without work, many men chose to leave
2178-464: The Town of Iroquois Falls entered into an agreement with Resolute Forest Products, and Riverside Developments, regarding redeveloping the former mill site into a multi-use industrial facility, commercial-industrial park, or possibly a greenhouse complex. The Jus Jordan Arena arena and curling rinks were completed in 1955, entirely through the volunteer effort of townspeople. There is a Hockey rink with
2244-599: The Vern Miller Memorial Arena in his honour. Iroquois Falls falls within the northern periphery of the humid continental climate ( Dfb ) despite extreme January and February record lows that exceed that of many subarctic regions. In January 1935, the town set the record low temperature for Ontario of −58.3 °C (−73 °F), the town also happens to hold the unofficial February record low of −55.6 °C (−68 °F). set in February 1899 (before
2310-536: The area in 1910. They began purchasing shares of local mines, and bought Benny Hollinger's share from him. Around the same time, Scottish businessman Sandy McIntyre discovered the McIntyre Mine near Pearl Lake, four miles away. Hollinger Mines was incorporated later that year with five equal partners consisting of Noah and Henry Timmins; Duncan and John McMartin (also brothers); and Mattawa attorney David Dunlap . A popular founding myth of Timmins and
2376-480: The area two months after Wilson's team. According to Gilles's report, while he inspected D’Aigle’s abandoned work, Hollinger was looking at some nearby quartz when he peeled back a bit of moss, revealing a large vein of gold. I was cutting a discovery post and Benny was pulling some moss of rocks a few feet away when he suddenly let a roar out of him and threw his hat at me. At first, I thought he has gone crazy but when I came over to where he was, it wasn’t hard to see
2442-416: The coffee shop at Joe's Texaco in nearby Porquis Junction. Ontario Provincial Police constable Vern Miller was drinking coffee with his partner constable Norm Tiegen, when 23-year-old Gregg Prevost of Iroquois Falls entered and shot Miller with a shotgun, killing him instantly. The community was shocked and outraged, and Prevost was sentenced to life in prison. The town of Matheson renamed their local arena
2508-415: The early 1970s the Timmins synagogue was closed due to a decrease in the town's Jewish population. Some of the main tourist attractions within the city include: The Timmins Museum and National Exhibition Centre, Cedar Meadows Wilderness Tours, Mount Jamieson Resort (formerly known as Kamiskotia Snow Resort), Porcupine Ski Runners Cross-Country Trails and Chalet, Hollinger Golf Club, Spruce Needles Golf Club,
2574-407: The employee's rank at the mill. Papermakers lived in double-adjoined homes, while senior managers lived on separate streets in single-family homes. Much of the town was destroyed by fire in 1916, though Anson continued his beautification program during the 1920s as the community rebuilt. The town's avant-garde style earned it the nickname "Anson's Folly". The town was incorporated in 1915, and
2640-615: The end of the 2016–17 season and Ryan Woodard was named as his replacement, however, in May 2017 he was fired before the season for a non-hockey related matter. Corey Beer was hired as the next head coach in the 2017–18 season. Beer was previously an associate coach of the Cobourg Cougars in the Ontario Junior Hockey League that had won the 2017 Royal Bank Cup . He left before the abbreviated 2020–21 season for
2706-422: The enlisted miners. In the 1950s, Mattagami 71, the reserve of the Mattagami First Nation was once again relocated, this time to its present day location, south of Mattagami Lake. By the mid 1960s, the majority of the original mines had depleted their gold content and mines began to close. Hollinger Mine was closed in 1968, having produced nearly 20 million troy ounces of gold. Twenty years later in 1988,
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2772-410: The exception of a slight bump in 2011, the population has been consistently declining. Rail service to Timmins was discontinued in 1990, but is expected to return within the next decade. The last of the original three mines to close was the Dome Mine, which was closed in 2017, after 107 years of operation, and about 17 million troy ounces of gold produced. Timmins is near the northern periphery of
2838-421: The fire, and the need to replace housing as well as serve newly arrived refugees from the Porcupine camp, Noah Timmins to began planning a townsite at the Timmins camp. The first lots went up for sale on September 4, 1911, ranging in price from $ 5 to $ 10 ($ 135-$ 265 in 2024) for residential lots, and from $ 75 to $ 1,000 ($ 2,000-$ 25,000 in 2024) for commercial lots. Migrants were attracted to the new lands for sale, and
2904-567: The foundation of the city, Jewish emigrants , mostly from Russia and Eastern Europe came to the town in order to work in the mines industry. In 1917 Rabbi Yaakov Schulman arrived in the city and was in charge of religious needs, such as kosher meat . In 1925 there were 200 Jews living in the city. In that year the Jewish community was officially established. The community was not isolated and maintained good relationships with non-Jews, especially emigrants from Russia and Eastern Europe, who spoke
2970-457: The growing mining camp "Timmins", after his uncle, Noah Timmins , who was then the President of Hollinger Mines. Two more settlements were founded by competing mines: The "Porcupine/Dome" camp was situated on Porcupine Lake, and owned by Dome Mines . "Schumacher" camp was situated on Pearl Lake, and owned by McIntyre Mines. Joe Torlone noted in his dissertation that Timmins was never truly
3036-589: The league. Kercz would also be awarded a place on the CCM 2nd All-Star Team at the end of the season. In the 2016–17 season, the Rock finished the regular season with a record of 36–16–3–1 and 76 points, third in the East Division and fourth overall. In the playoffs, they upset the Cochrane Crunch in six games and advanced to the divisional finals where they were swept in four games against regular season champion Powassan Voodoos . Head coach Paul Gagne retired at
3102-481: The less than 2,000 total residents at the time. The miners were coveted by the Canadian Expeditionary Force for their ability to dig trenches, and experience with handling explosives. News of the war and letters from soldiers abroad were frequently published in the town's local newspaper, The Porcupine Advance (TPA). After receiving news of armistice , major celebrations were held all around
3168-509: The morning, groups of boys and girls were out with their horns, whistles and tin pan bands. After the noon hour, the crowds began to gather in the main part of the town, one of the chief centres of interest being Marshall-Ecclestone’s window where an effigy of the Kaiser was displayed. The effigy was made by the Hollinger carpenter staff and was an unusually clever piece of workmanship. The form
3234-405: The paper mill, and the residential streets curved with a focus on the centre of the town. A large church was built, the first English Catholic Parish in Northern Ontario, and today remains a historic landmark. Anson's company town had a hospital, a school, and a company hotel. Employee homes were designed with gambrel roofs to resemble New England farmhouses, and their design and location reflected
3300-407: The post being unsupplied. Frederick House Post was functionally abandoned in 1812, when a man named Capascoos killed all 12 of the trading post's staff, as well as looted and damaged the building. Capascoos was never caught, and the building was never rebuilt. However, temporary log shelters were put in place nearby to facilitate fur trading until 1821, when the post was officially declared closed by
3366-423: The rail tracks split at this point) grew to the south, and was at first a ramshackle collection of cabins and shacks. It later became known as Ansonville, and was home to a number of business people and others who were shut out from the company town. In contrast to Iroquois Falls, Ansonville had little town planning, and no water, sewer, or electrical service. Insurance companies would not insure homes there because
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#17327879374683432-407: The reason. The quartz where he had pulled the moss off looked as though someone had dripped a candle along it, but instead of wax, it was gold we saw. Don’t let anyone ever tell you that the original Hollinger discovery left any doubts of its importance. When we pulled the moss three feet out of the ground and away the quartz stood out, about six-feet wide with splattered over it for about 60 feet along
3498-403: The risk of fire was too great, and the first residents were French-Canadians, Russians and Ukrainians. Animosity was frequent between Ansonville and Iroquois Falls, and many residents of Iroquois Falls condemned Ansonville "as a dark den of foreigners engaged in regular street brawls, illegal alcohol consumption, and other unsavoury activities" In 1921, Ansonville began to levy taxes, which led
3564-404: The same languages they did. Only in the 1930s were actual community institutions built, such as a synagogue and a school. Since 1928 the Jewish community has held an annual Purim ball. The ball was mixed: Jews and non-Jews, men and women. Part of the ball was a beauty pageant named malkat Ester . The Jewish population peaked around the 1950s, when it included around 160 families. In
3630-519: The season he had found a "dome" of quartz that contained large veins of gold stretching several hundred feet in length and 46 m (150 ft) in width. This section was later exploited and developed as the Dome Mine . Wilson advised Hollinger & Gillies that all the good sites in a 10 km (6.2 mi) radius had been claimed, so the duo went slightly further west. There they stumbled upon D'Aigle's abandoned test pits and tools. While Gilles
3696-716: The semi-finals to the Schreiber Diesels . Three years later in 2009–10, the Eskimos clinched first overall and won the NOJHL championship over the Soo Thunderbirds , who were hosting the Dudley Hewitt Cup. The Eskimos would finish 4th in the 2010 Dudley Hewitt Cup tournament. The Eskimos never made the NOJHL finals again. In March 2015, the Abitibi Eskimos announced they were relocating back to Timmins after 16 years in Iroquois Falls. The Timmins NOJHL franchise announced that they were not going to name
3762-534: The settlement; only 500 miners returned to work in July 1913. The strike won the men a nine-hour workday and a pay increase. In 1917, a dam was built at Kenogamissi Falls, downriver from Mattagami Lake, to provide power to Timmins and the surrounding area, Mattagami Lake was consequently flooded. A recruitment campaign for soldiers during the First World War was successful in enlisting around 600 men out of
3828-414: The surrounding area, but none of them had near the amount of gold which D'Aigle's team was seeking. They eventually abandoned their tools in the last pit they dug, approximately 8 km west of Porcupine Lake, and returned home. Two years later in 1909, a prospector duo consisting of Benny Hollinger and Alex Gillies arrived in the Porcupine region. They met up with another group, led by Jack Wilson. Earlier in
3894-617: The team the Timmins Golden Bears, and named the team the Timmins Rock instead when unveiling the team name, colors and jerseys at an event. The Rock finished their first season in Timmins with a 29–24–1 record, which was good for 4th place in the NOJHL East Division. The Rock swept the Iroquois Falls Eskis in the 1st round of the playoffs, winning 8–1 at home in game one, and 3–1 in Iroquois Falls. However
3960-403: The town was officially incorporated but weather was taken) and tied in February 1934 but it wasn't recorded at the location used for official temperature readings. Winter typically lasts from the end of October to well into April. In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada , Iroquois Falls had a population of 4,418 living in 1,977 of its 2,153 total private dwellings,
4026-423: The vein. D'Aigle had worked the property and cut many trails through the bush but by a queer quirk of luck, one of his trails from the test pit passes the richest part of the vein at a point where he could have easily reached out and touched it with his hand. Additionally, historians generally agree that expansion of the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway, which connected Central Ontario to Northern Ontario ,
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#17327879374684092-426: Was 39.4 °C (103 °F) on July 12, 1936. The coldest temperature ever recorded was −45.6 °C (−50 °F) on February 1, 1962. In the 2021 Canadian census conducted by Statistics Canada , Timmins had a population of 41,145 living in 17,886 of its 19,390 total private dwellings, a change of -1.5% from its 2016 population of 41,788. With a land area of 2,955.33 km (1,141.06 sq mi), it had
4158-457: Was inspecting the abandoned pits, Hollinger pulled a bit of moss from a nearby quartz outcropping and revealed a large vein of gold. Gillies later noted that he had found a boot print pressed into some moss covering the gold vein. This print was believed left by one of D'Aigle's team two years before. They had departed unaware of the large vein under their feet. Two Mattawa shopkeeper brothers, named Noah Timmins and Henry Timmins , arrived in
4224-425: Was instrumental in triggering the Porcupine Gold Rush because it made the area accessible. The Canadian Pacific Railway expansion to was also critical, as it enabled travellers from Toronto to go directly north instead of taking a time-consuming detour around Eastern Ontario . A company town was founded near modern-day Gillies Lake , to house Hollinger Mines employees. Mine manager Alphonse "Al" Paré named
4290-404: Was made of wood, the limbs and body being perfectly formed and the face and head well-shaped. It was more than life-size and very life-like. Dressed in long boots, brass helmet, iron crosses and shining sword, the wooden Kaiser was stuffed with oakum, ready for the flames. The Great Depression did not adversely affect the economy of the area, and jobs were available in mining and lumber. During
4356-543: Was said to have been the first to notice gold as the Sun struck the quartz. As I was examining the seams in the quartz, about twelve feet ahead of me I saw a piece of yellow glisten as the sun struck it. It proved to be a very spectacular piece of gold in a thin sean of schist... when the boys came back we got out the drills and hammers, and that night had about 132 pounds of very spectacular specimens The only comparable mention of moss comes from Hollinger and Gilles, who arrived in
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