The LaRose mine, across Cobalt Lake from the town, 1906.
Anyone arriving in Cobalt by train did not have to ask where the mines were located, for they were in evidence everywhere, even within the townsite itself. Most of the miners and prospectors lived in Cobalt near the mines while the mine owners usually built their homes in Haileybury, five miles away. Shown in the background is the LaRose mine, located on the site of the discovery made accidentally in 1903 by Fred LaRose, a blacksmith with the railway construction crew. LaRose sold his claim for $30,000 to a group which included the Timmins brothers, then merchants in the small lumbering town of Mattawa.
Courtesy: John Mitchell Collection, Canadian Kodak
