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- So when I came up to Cobalt I go out whenever I have spare time and prospect. I was sharpening steel and shoeing the horses and mending the skips when they broke. There was not much spare time. It was all bush, all bush then, and there is a fine house where my little shack was. One evening I found a 'float,' a piece as big as my hand, very heavy and with little sharp points all over it. I say nothing, but come back, and the next night I take a pick and look for the vein. The second evening I found it: you can see it on the side of the hill now. Then I go to the boss, Duncan McMartin. and I say. 'Boss. I have a good thing; come with me,' I say, 'You give me good show.' He says, 'Pull a gun on me if I don't.' Then I show him the vein and we stake out two claims, one in his name, another in mine. "We had half share in each. I used to work away at the vein in my spare time.
When I had a hole down I would put in a shot and the cobalt bloom and silver would fly. Then Professor Miller he came and said it was silver. I sold my half claims for $25,000. Henry Timmins, he hear of the find at Mattawa and he come to me one night in Hull and we make the deal. I came back to camp and work on the La Rose Extension prospecting. Then I go back to Hull. (en)
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