Letter to the Editor Golden Rose history

In your paper of Nov 21, page 13, was an article on Noramco that interested me greatly. In that story, reference is made to the Golden Rose mine of Ontario. I would like to know if it is the Golden Rose in the Temagami district. If it is, then it is the one I worked in during 1927-28, so I am not surprised at the problems the present operators are having. During my time, it was owned and operated by a different company. The ground was so hard that in the day of the crank machine, it was two shifts to get a 5x7x7 ft drift round and we would use 20 sets of drill steel per shift. That was two drillers, two helpers for two shifts for a 5×7 round. Most of the time we had a nice vein even some free gold on the contacts but then it would just cut off. We would go back in after blasting a square and the vein would just be completely gone, clean cut off. Then it was “bring in the diamond drill to look for it”. Once, when we did find it again, about 40 ft up at an angle of 80 , we had to “drive” an inclined raise to the contact and start a new heading. James Kidd London, Ontario