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“Every week he'd send back, to find him in a Val d'Or bar, a bag of rocks and 4 request paying prospectors to dig for more money,” says Mr.| rocks for some millionaires Mills. ‘‘Fipally, MeKay went up| New York.”

By GERRY MeNEIL

MONTREAL (CP) — RB. P. Mills, promoter of a good many «memorable mining enterprises recalls that the Mexican ice mine was quite a ‘ind in the hot Rio Grande Valley.

Fruit and vegetable growers abounded in the valley but ice was a8 scarce as orange groves in Alaska. .

The Mexican Penuco Of1 Com pany wasn’t looking for ice when it sank its first well in

the oil-rich Tampico field in ].

1922.

Therefore, its roug hnecks were taken aback—some ran— when snow —and—ice suddenly sprayed from the well into the

air

100-degree air.

_Caramba! Had the gringo en gineers drilled through to Si beria?

“They'd actually drilled into a pocket of carbon dioxide,” ex plained Mr. Mills, who was there. “It turned to ice when it hit the air. There was a moun tain of.dry ice in no time.” SAID ICE

The developers coolly as- sessed the worth of their prod uct to Rie Grande growers, found a way to. remove the gas

’ odor, and goon were selling ice from the world’s first commer- elal field.

Randy Mills’s Canadian ex-

. periences have been less un- usual but more thrilling since “he came here in 1934.

He and Addison McKay, color-

3 ful mining figure who died in

1949, were attracted from New York the promising wilds of

Quebe¢ and Labrador.

gava iron ore finds.

The Newfoundland govern- ment granted them the first | Labrador mining concession in 1935. Newfoundland, then a Brit- ish colony, had to get the king’s signature on it.

“It was probably one of the few documents Edward VIII signed,’ notes Mr. Mills. The king later abdicated after a short reign,

STUCK PIN IN MAP

Mr. Mills tried to get the British government to develop the concession in 1939. It would have ‘ cost $60,000,000 then to build a railway and shipping fa- cilities, he said.

Britain didn't invest though and the Labrador concession was later sold. Iron Ore Com- pany of Canada Limited has since spent $250,000,000 to de- velop it. ’

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| A local prospector, N. O. Car- | | penter, told Mr. McKay about ! promising finds near Amos, 320 | miles northwest of Montreal.

300 CLAIMS

up) per-rich country. A railway was |

He was hired and soon staked 300 claims in remote but cop-|

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ree. 20, bev per, gold and silver im the Chi- bougama: field.

The Virginia - born Mills, a youthful 62, is @ director of 19 companies and president of 14. They keep him dabbling in ev- erything from gold to natural gas, from Cape Breton to the Arctic.

He is president of Baker Talc

= oe 8 Oe EOE te | their popular primitive carv-|

ings. Arctic soapstone has too many impurities.

The same mine produces talc that is being refined to the point of invisibility

CAN’T SEE IT

“The fineness is measured in microns,” explains Mr. Mills. “Qne micron equals the wave

te wu kb ew aie tgs Weve Fe Even oss eo @ ” The Northwest Territories fined curs to five microns. | northern Québec are about the Mr. Mills is also a director of only places left where you can Laduboro Oil Limited, currently | go that.

developing a promising gas field! «and it's 95 miles north of in the St. Lawrence River Val- | the railway at Schefferville, not ley 80 miles northeast of Mont- | as inaccessible as Chibougamau real, and an executive of sev-| was 30 years ago...”

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Mr. J. George MacKay, Him eral candidate, was a receg visitor to the district.

| Maurice Arsenault is a pat ient in the Westren Hospital fs Alberton

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eral companies exploring a cop- per find deep in Quebec's north. FAMOUS PEAK

“This stuff is sticking right} Mont Blanc on the French out of the ground,” the pro-| Italian border, reaching 15,771

in | built there in 1956 and several companies now are mining cop-

the full year.

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Mr. Mills and Mr. McKay stumbled on to Chibougamau in | 1932. Looking for fresh fields to

conquer, they stuck a pin in a map of northern Quebec and sent an engineer there to do some prospecting.

TIGNISH

LeRoy Arsenault who spent the past three weeks as a patient at Prince County Hospital, re turned to his home in the vil- lage recently.

Mrs. Roy MacLeod spent a | few days in Summerside visit- ing at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Jenkins, and Miss Dora Bowness — proprietress’ of the Bell Book Store.

The weekly card tournament | was held in the Dalton School card room on Wednesday even- ing. Claude Gavin was the first Prize winner, Freeze-out prizes were won by Mrs, Jerry Dou- cette and Alphonse Gaudet. A cake donated by Mrs. James Smythe was won by Mrs. Ferdie Wedge. |

The Tignish Ice Carnival sche- duled for Saturday evening was postponed due to bad weather

~ until Saturday, February 17th. This came as a great disappoint- ment for the young people of the village. The rink committee are ' making further plans for a very successful carnival with the co- operation of the weather man. A well stocked canteen will be in operation for the ¢arnival. Prizes, compliments of business houses and organizations, will be presented by the judges, im- mediately following the crown- ing of the Carnival Queen at 9.00

p.m. . %

__ Gerald Doucette, Skinners Pond, is a patient at City Hos- pital, Charlottetown. — :

Mr. James P. Gallant, Skin- ners Pond,*is a patient at West- ern Hospital, Alberton.

Miss Evelyn Richard has re- turned to her home from the Prince County Hospital, Sum- merside, where she spent the past three weeks.

Mr, Peter Gaudin, Mexico, Me, and his daughter Mrs. Stewart McCatherine, Augusta, Me., are visiting their: mother Mrs. Bridget Gaudet, who cele- brated her 101st birthday on October 29th. She resides with ‘her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs, Leo Myers. Also Visiting Mrs. Gaudet was her nephew Mr. Adelard Mercier of Roxbury , Me., and another daughter, Mrs. Guy Hillman, Mexico,. Me., is still a guest of her mother.

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