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Early 1900s Canada humorous postcard silver rush mining town Cobalt ON

Interesting and rare postcard related to the Silver Rush in Cobalt Northern Ontario

Hand drawn image reproduced into a postcard, labeled ‘THE FIRST WASH IN COBALT’. Woman in parka standing outside log cabin, beside a clothesline with pants, socks and underwear, drying. In upper right corner in a cloud,  image of Adam and Eve, on their clothesline are two fig leaves! Labeled ‘THE FIRST WASH IN EDEN’.

Handwritten “Here we are again  Mac”

On back, 1 cent King Edward VII stamp with (CO)BALT postmark, mailed to Toronto

Based on the postcard having undivided back, dates it somewhere ~1904-05.

Vertical crease. Crease LR corner

 

The Cobalt silver rush started in 1903 when huge veins of silver were discovered by workers on the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway (T&NO) near the Mile 103 post. By 1905 a full-scale silver rush was underway, and the town of Cobalt, Ontario sprang up to serve as its hub. By 1908 Cobalt produced 9% of the world's silver, and in 1911 produced 31,507,791 ounces of silver. However, the good ore ran out fairly rapidly, and most of the mines were closed by the 1930s. There were several small revivals over the years, notably in World War II and again in the 1950s, but both petered out and today there is no active mining in the area. In total, the Cobalt area mines produced 460 million ounces of silver.

The Cobalt Rush was instrumental in opening northern Ontario for mineral exploration. Prospectors fanned out from Cobalt, and soon caused the nearby Porcupine Gold Rush in 1909, and the Kirkland Lake Gold Rush of 1912. Much of the settlement in northern Ontario outside the Clay Belt owes its existence indirectly to the Cobalt Rush.

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Early 1900s Canada humorous postcard silver rush mining town Cobalt ON
Early 1900s Canada humorous postcard silver rush mining town Cobalt ON
Early 1900s Canada humorous postcard silver rush mining town Cobalt ON
Early 1900s Canada humorous postcard silver rush mining town Cobalt ON
Early 1900s Canada humorous postcard silver rush mining town Cobalt ON
Early 1900s Canada humorous postcard silver rush mining town Cobalt ON
Early 1900s Canada humorous postcard silver rush mining town Cobalt ON
Early 1900s Canada humorous postcard silver rush mining town Cobalt ON

Early 1900s Canada humorous postcard silver rush mining town Cobalt ON