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Man looking over smoking remains of laundry building in Cobalt Northern Ontario, silver mining boom town.
Written on negative ‘COBALT STEAM LAUNDRY FIRE COBALT C.F.L”
Postmarked ‘COBALT PM AU 4 08 ONT' on 2 cent King Edward VII stamp. Also a Czech American charity stamp. Mailed to Moravia (Czechoslovakia).
On July 20th 1908 there was a fire that destroyed the following businesses/buildings located at 61-65 Silver St.:
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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.
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