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Footnotes: Chapter III

  1. D.W. Prowse, A History of Newfoundland, p. 353.
  2. J.P. Howley to W.T. Stead, 20 February 1900, Howley Papers, P.A.N.L. (P4/2/2).
  3. Evening Telegram, 26 November 1965.
  4. J.H.A.., 1875, p. 749.
  5. B. Willson, The Truth About Newfoundland, The Tenth Island, p. 161.
  6. One of these claims became owned in part by a government surveyor, Arthur White, and Sydney Woods. The fee-simple grant to the claim was issued to the latter man.
  7. G.W. Maynard, "The Chromite-Deposits on Port au Port Bay, Newfoundland", Transactions of American Institute of Mining Engineers, vol. 27 (1897), p. 283.
  8. G.S.N., 1881-1909, p. 337.
  9. In 1917, J.A. Thompson of the United States reopened an old pit of the Bluff Head mine and shipped out 80 tons of ore to the United States and Nova Scotia.
  10. Matheson and Company to J.R. Stewart, 18 January 1894, Stewart Papers.
  11. Western Star, 26 November 1901.
  12. D.J. Henderson had little time to benefit from the transaction, as he died on 11 December 1902.
  13. Charles Willis leased the Goose Arm land from its owners, the Reid Newfoundland Company, on 14 June 1902. The Reid company had previously (1900-01) attempted to work a small pyrite deposit on the property, and had raised 200 tons of ore. Willis and the Humber company also tried to mine the pyrite prospect in 1902, but gave up around 1903 without producing any ore.
  14. B. Outerbridge, Report on York Harbour Property, 1923, D.M.E., pp. 9-10.
  15. Western Copper Company Ltd. vs. Humber Consolidated Mining and Manufacturing Company Ltd. and William Nicholls, Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador records.
  16. Further development of the York Harbour mine took place in the 1950s, '60s and '70s, but the mine remained unproductive.
  17. Who's Who in Mining and Metallurgy, 1910.
  18. Captain Cunningham owned the claims in conjunction with Francis Barry.
  19. B. Willson, The Truth About Newfoundland, p. 227.
  20. The brick later appeared on display in a St. John's shop window, but has since vanished. A 37-ounce gold brick, also made from Mings Bight gold, has similarly disappeared.
  21. The Geological Survey of Newfoundland Bull. No. 2 suggests (p. 37) that the Browning's claims provoked a boundary dispute between Stewart and Jackman, with the court settling the case in Jackman's favour, forcing Stewart to leave Sops Arm. The report is questionable for, far from leaving, Stewart remained in Sops Arm to manage the Browning's mine. The Supreme Court has no record of the supposed case.
  22. A. Murray and J. Howley, Geological Survey of Newfoundland Reports 1864-1881, p. 225.
  23. H.A. Quinn, Report on Diamond Drilling Done by the Geological Survey of Newfoundland at Rencontre East, Fortune Bay, 1944, D.M.E., p. 3.
  24. Dr. Warren Smith was also involved in the St. Lawrence fluorspar mines at this time. See Chapter VI.
  25. Memorandum from W. Woods to Commission of Government, 8 February 1943, D.M.E.
  26. The only other major Newfoundland molybdenum prospect lay in Fleur de Lys, White Bay. Michael and Frank Lewis of Fleur de Lys first discovered the deposit in 1893 while digging a root cellar. Local men worked the deposit during World War I and raised some 100 tons of ore from a 55-foot shaft for a Norwegian shipping company. The ore remained at the site.
  27. Correspondence re. Manganese Mines at Brigus Head, P.A.N.L. (GN2/5/398).
  28. G.S.N., 1881-1909, p. 523.
  29. Some evidence suggests that Messrs. Matheson and Company, which financed the Newfoundland Consolidated Copper Mining Company, also backed the Cliff Silver Mines Company.
  30. Whiteway Papers, 11 September 1885.
  31. J. Stephens, "Water-Wheels", p. 17.
  32. T.J. Freeman, "Letter on Newfoundland Mines", Engineering and Mining Journal, vol. 71 (1901), p. 77. Hereafter cited as T.J. Freeman, "Letter on Newfoundland Mines".
  33. A 230-trial cargo of ore left Silver Cliff for the United States in 1925 from the Silver Cliff Mining Company operation.
  34. T.J. Freeman, "Letter on Newfoundland Mines", p. 77.
  35. Foran's death came two months after he had tried to sell the mine to the Tharsis Sulphur and Copper Company of Glasgow, which was then working some Notre Dame Bay copper mines. The Tharsis company mining engineer, Alexander Stewart, inspected the silver Cliff property, but declined to buy it. Stewart at one time managed the Tharsis operations at Calanas Mines in Spain, and was perhaps the same A. Stewart who managed the Browning's gold mine in 1902-03.

Abbreviations Used

P.A.N.L. Provincial Archives of Newfoundland and Labrador; notation in brackets after P.A.N.L. refers to call number used by Provincial Archives.

C.N.S. Centre for Newfoundland and Studies; on campus of Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's.

D.M.E. Department of Mines and Energy, Provincial Government of Newfoundland and Labrador; refers to reports found in files of that Department.

J.H.A. Newfoundland Journal of the House of Assembly; found in Centre for Newfoundland Studies.