Although the paper started in North Bay in 1906, the lure of the silver boom saw the Nugget move to Cobalt, where it became the Cobalt Nugget in 1907.
“Well, you want to hear about the gold.
They had put a few shots in the vein at one place, and there was a good-sized speck of the yellow stuff sticking out of the vein.
Headline: “Wilson’s Dyke is Sixty Feet Wide – Claim in South Tisdale is “Golden Boulevard” of Porcupine Camp – Davidson, Offer and Bruce’s Finds.” “I went down to look at the Wilson property yesterday.
“Though you do not meet many people on the trails, the snow that had fallen only a couple of days ago is beaten hard, so there must be a few in the woods.
For six feet, the free gold showed as you had shot it out of a blunder buss, nuggets of it, and threads running for several inches and pretty regular too.
“This is the thing that will send them up in the air.
Travellers coming down from the north, report that Matheson is a very busy country with every available team at work drawing supplies into the mining camps that have already been established.
Between 50 and 100 men are getting off at mile 222 and hiking into the Porcupine every day and it is certain as anything can be that there will be a rush into the new goldfields after the New year that will completely blot out all remembrances of the Gowganda trail.
The other veins have been only found since and, by the way, the field is gradually being widened and it is probable that as many more rich finds will be made in the next six weeks.
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