Nickel Mines

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Nickel Mines

Prospectors from all nations hurry

To locate mines in Sudbury;

To them the highest worldly fame

Is to secure good mining claim.

No hardships daunt them in attempt,

A good mining claim for to pre-empt;

And the old miners here from Wales,

Of these mines tell glowing tales.

Mining fortune oft is fickle,

But ’tis not so with mines of nickel;

And Uncle Sam thinks he would feel

His navy safe ’neath nickel steel.

Railroads perform important function,

In opening mines at Sudbury Junction;

There if the rocks you do but tickle,

They smile and you behold the nickel.

And where the landscape late has been

Covered o’er with forest green;

The fire has left charred stumps of pine,

And there too is the glittering mine.