HISTORY
MINING HISTORY
MINING OPERATIONS
MINING HISTORY
MINING OPERATIONS
Part 1
of
"Forty-Fourth Anniversary of Wabana Mines"
by F.F. Jardine
Evening Telegram, December 24, 1938, pp. 12 & 14
of
"Forty-Fourth Anniversary of Wabana Mines"
by F.F. Jardine
Evening Telegram, December 24, 1938, pp. 12 & 14
Thus ends the first period of Mr. Jardine's history of the Wabana Mines.
A note regarding the last topic Jardine covered in Part 1 above, the discovery of the large fossil, believed to have been a Pterodactyl:
Mr. Jardine was not living on Bell Island when the fossil was found in 1902, so he would have learned of it second-hand. When this article was published, it spurred a response from Arthur House, who was the man who actually discovered the fossil and knew the story first-hand. Mr. House's own history of the early years of mining on Bell Island, including the story of the fossil, was published in the Daily News in March 1939. I have posted his article at https://www.historic-wabana.com/arthur-house-article1.html on this website. Between these two knowledgeable gentlemen, we learn a great deal about the early development of the Wabana Mines and the men who were involved in the hard work, things that we would never have known if they had not taken the time, in the late 1930s, to write their stories.
A note regarding the last topic Jardine covered in Part 1 above, the discovery of the large fossil, believed to have been a Pterodactyl:
Mr. Jardine was not living on Bell Island when the fossil was found in 1902, so he would have learned of it second-hand. When this article was published, it spurred a response from Arthur House, who was the man who actually discovered the fossil and knew the story first-hand. Mr. House's own history of the early years of mining on Bell Island, including the story of the fossil, was published in the Daily News in March 1939. I have posted his article at https://www.historic-wabana.com/arthur-house-article1.html on this website. Between these two knowledgeable gentlemen, we learn a great deal about the early development of the Wabana Mines and the men who were involved in the hard work, things that we would never have known if they had not taken the time, in the late 1930s, to write their stories.
Surface mining at Wabana.