​HISTORY
MINING HISTORY
MINING OPERATIONS
Part 4
of
"Forty-Fourth Anniversary of Wabana Mines"
by F.F. Jardine
Evening Telegram, December 24, 1938, pp. 12 & 14
*F.O.B. stands for “freight on board” and is a designation used to indicate when liability and ownership of goods is transferred from a seller to a buyer.
"D. V." is an abbreviation for the Latin term "Deo volente," meaning "God willing."
Thus ends Mr. Jardine's history of the Wabana Mines. Sadly, he passed away just six years after he wrote this, so he was not around to witness the great expansion period of the 1950s, or the devastating shutdown in the 1960s. We can only imagine what a story he could have written about that.
This c.1929 photo is looking north from Bennett Street at some of the smoke stacks alluded to in Mr. Jardine's story. These two are for the compressor that pumped air into No. 2 Mine, thus the name "Compressor Hill," the hill that leads to The Green. These particular stacks blew down in 1932. The one-ton ore cars are moving between No. 2 Mine and Dominion Pier. Photo and information courtesy of Charlie Bown.