Letters to the Editor Corrects Siscoe story

I read with great interest W. Babe Woollett’s April 11 “Odds ‘n’ Sods” article in The Northern Miner on the demise of Joe Siscoe.

I knew Joe Siscoe and he was not a prospector. His brother, the late Stanley Siscoe, was the man who died, in the forced landing described in the Woollett article.

Joe Siscoe was for a while hoistman at Siscoe and later at the East Sullivan mine in Val d’Or. I knew him slightly. I did however know very well his former prospecting partner Joe Samulsk, a Polish prospector who was co-discoverer of the Siscoe mine. Samulsk worked for me on a number of occasions in bush work in the Val d’Or area.

From August, 1942, to late March of 1944 I was general superintendent of Siscoe Gold Mines. During 1943 the Siscoe mine was the largest tonnage, lowest grade, lowest cost gold mine in the province of Quebec. J. C. Honsberger Agincourt, Ont.