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[NYBob]

Moneta Porcupine Mines Inc (TSX:ME) Est. 1910 -
1919 was a watershed year for Timmins -


The Hollinger Golf Course, as it appeared in 1936 -
The Hollinger Gold Mine started work on the nine-hole course in 1919 -
A new 18-hole course was opened in 2001, and the original course
continued to operate until 2007 -

The Moneta Song, sung to the tune Oh,
My Darling Clementine:

In the sand plain next the golf course

Moneta ne’er could be a mine,

Through the ages all the sages

Turned it down in record time

(Chorus) Oh Moneta, Oh, Moneta

Newest star in Porcupine

Battling Walter didn’t falter

Now Moneta is a mine.





Many years ago they tried it

The old shafts they numbered nine

But that didn’t bother Walter

Now Moneta is a mine.

When they built it Walter drilled it

And he said the grade was fine

Was he right or was he cockeyed

Now Moneta is a mine

Then he sank a shaft upon it

It went down in record time

Then he built a mill to mill it

Now Moneta is a mine.

So today he pours a gold brick

And we toast him with this wine

May he pour a million others

And we’ll drink with him each time.

The Porcupine Miners’ Song,
a popular piece by W.Stanley Johns of Timmins,
is also sung to the Darling Clementine tune.

It is one that has been reprinted in many books
about the early Porcupine Gold Rush:

We are miners, Porcupiners,

Every morning we’re on time

In the shaft-house you will find us

With our tools, right on time.

When the whistle blows at seven

And the cage starts to descend

We get off right on our level

Up the stope, start to ascend.

With the drill steel on our shoulders

To the working face we go,

Scale and drill and muck and back also

For we have to make a show.

“How’s she going, boys”? says the captain

As he comes through on his beat.

Drill your holes with plenty on them

And make sure they’re all ten feet.

Cobalt, Lorrain, Gowganda,

Elk Lake, Kirkland Lake are in line.

But for real mines and miners

You got to come to Porcupine.


The newspaper also had items reprinted from the 1912 editions
of the Porcupine Advance that celebrated the very public
opening and “dropping of the stamps” at
the Dome Mine, the ordering of new stamps for
the McIntyre and the organization of a local banquet for
the departing manager of

The Vipond Gold Mine -
still is situated on Moneta Porcupine Mines Inc. Large Mining Property -

History-Gold-Rush-Inspired-Songs of old timers of
Gold Miners -
Made Canada Very Rich -
God Bless