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.