New-York tribune., 1909-06-28
mBALT THE MAGNET
Transformation Of the Canadian WI
derneSS Described.
By Cy Warman.

-. a. r-ipple Creek radisted and built UP Victor
= o.ber camps in the surrounding country. so has
~hs+ Canada. spread out over a vast area Of
- T-as I'D TO the advent of the Temiskaming &;
---.,sr1 Ontaro Railway. five years ago, a sleep
.ng wilderness. -.
..lss NJ Larder Lake: to :..e northwest, UP the
,t-eal River q new silver field. and still further
-o-+h. GOV Ganda- Yet Cobalt Camp continues the
-Iapnet which Is drawing miners and prospectors
10 the northern fields
without bclittling the newer prospects. il is not
.oo roych To say that the older camp. with its
lord Of output and list Of actual shipping mines.
4, still the chief attraction for the miner well
as the stock broker
the large sale of La Rose in blocks up to hun
-eas Of thousands OF dollars. the upward climb of
,be mice Of CroWn Reserve, the new strikes in
-spv OF the old line properties serve to Offset the
siI effects OF any widcatting by the birds of pas
ssre who build only boom and then fly away to
4be next new field Nearly every train arriving al
ceba L IS loaded to its full capacity
The outgoing trains are almost as heavily loaded,
the difference representing the growth Of the camp.
As & town Cobalt IS one Of the most fourishing in
canada. Streets being blasted out Of the solid
rock lakes and bogs are being filled in. until the
heaying. pitching. uneven trail becomes an almost
lsvel street. The Cobalt Electric Light Company
hss 10 add a thousand lamps each month. Oc-
cssionaIly the earth shudders under ones feet,
which means that the miners in the Conea gis or
some other inside property are blasting under the
fozn.
The possession Of lots and lands for other than
mining purposes is often disappointing TO the
eorner A man may buy 4 timber limit but he does
not Own the land. Another man may lot,
but only the surface. the crust. IL were, While
the third party may have right to hollow the
earth beneath both the man who owns the timber
and the man who owns the land. SO valuable are
me things unseen esteemed in the Cobalt Camp
that men have paid hundreds of thousands of dol
lars for the right mine beneath lakes. of which
here are scores in the silver belt AS matter OF
fact the Crown Reserve. whose shares have gone
up from Is cents to So so is entirely below lake
ss far as present development goes.
The ore ouarried in the first rough excavation
Of most Of the Cobalt mines was shipped out and
sold for what il would bring Cobalt, which had
been selling Up TO $50 pound. soon became
worthless because OF the abundant output. and be
cause it rendered the silver ore difficult to treat
the selter paid for the silver values only There
were no sneIters in Canada capable Of treating
Cobalt ores economically Ultimately Denver be
came the leading smelling point for the products
OF these northern fields. but the haul nearly eigh-
teen hundred miles was a heavy tax on the ore.
Within the last year number % the best mines
have put up conoentrsters. thus saving the freight
OF waste rock. In addition these private coneen
traitors. there number Of public concentrators,
that the freight problem IS being rapidly over
cone CAPITAL was hard attract TO Cobalt in
the established laws Of geology. One Of the most
successful mines in the camp so poor that the
manager had TO take his first shipment 10 New
York cash II, and come back with the money 10
pay the men who had helped him 10 blast il and
grub il from the ground.
II Cobalt continues 10 improve in the next hve
years as il has IN the first FIVE years Of its life
tine the Province Of Ontario viii wax wealthy on
the royalties from her mines, many Of which pay a
royalty Of 25 Per cent Of the gross output
In addition to her mineral wealth. Northern On
tarso has q great wilderness Of pulpwood forest
which is Increasing in value from year TO year
And when this forest wealth shall have been re
,aoved there will have been cleared some sixteen
znion acres OF splendid farm LANDS
Strange as II may seem TO those who know Can
ada as country the Arctic Circle, and some OF
Il inside the circle, there is known 10 exist in the
ast wilderness q splendid clay belt beginning just
aorth Of Cobalt from fifty 10 hundred miles in
width ana more than three hundred miles long,
which produces almost anything grown II Northern
New York or in the Canadian West The price OF
the timber when taken of more than pays for
clearing the ground Of stumps, and the first crop
usually pays Tor the land and all necessary build
.ngs
Great oeveIormeats are expected IN this northern
pste5. opening il up from East 10 West