Book 3 of Oxford County Mining History will be about the northern region, principally Newry. Newry is my favorite area. I first visited the locality in 1963 and had to hitchhike to get there. I eventually did my thesis on the geology of the mine area. I was later a consultant for the mine owner. I was able to do historical research on their nickel and I chased down the answers to questions I always had and found out why the Red Crossbill pegmatite was named and both sides of the controversy of whether the mine manager embezzeled funds or not, etc. The embezzelment controversy is better explained in the diary of Dr. Hiram Francis Abbott of Rumford Point. The diary was in the possession of Thurston Cole up til his death in 1966. Stuart Martin searched for the diary later, but it is feared thrown out. Nonetheless, I am offering a two lobster dinner reward, complete with homemade apple pie and commercially made French white wine - and I'll do the relevant dishes! for being able to read from a copy the diary, if it still exists. Also looking for a photograph of Clarence Leslie Potter, born in Clementsport, Nova Scotia 1870, who died in Waterford in 1906.
The book will also discuss the history of the gold mining and the litigation surrounding the Swift River property. |
