Page 17 rest of his life. Their grubstakers, W illiam (Pop) Ed - wards and Dr . Thomas M. Jamieson of Chicago, ended up multimillion - aires and on the board of Dome, with Edwards being president in 191 1. Sandy McIntyre who found the McIn - tyre Mine sold of f his intere st in the two key claims for pennies and his love of alcohol kept him broke al - though he found several other mines in his lifetime. His partner prospector Hans Buttner accepted $10,000 for his claim s and took a holiday to Hol - land. He eventually returned to his na - tive Germany . Sandy’ s half interest in the claims went this way: he sold half for $300, then an eighth for $25 and later half of what he had left for $5,000 cash and a promise of $60,000 in the future but never collected the $60,000. The McIntyre Mine company eventu - ally gave him a small pension to help him in old age, T om Middleton, Clary Dixon (age 19) and Jack Miller (Gillies’ grubstaker) followed Gillies and Hollinger and staked tie-on claims to the pair . Miller handled the negotiations with Noah T immins and got $250,000 but Dixon claimed he only received 2,000 shares of Holli nger stock and $8,000 in cash while Middleton got $28,000 in cash which he promptly blew . Pick a mining camp and there will be few rich men among the prospectors who made the discoveries. Prospectors could do a deal on a hand - shake for a littl e money but when they made a big fnd, they were not capa - ble of dealing with company lawyers, geologists or mining engineers and bankers, not to mention much older company executives used to hammer - ing out mining deals. Sandy blew money Sandy McIntyre discovered the McIntyre Mine Cont’d from pg. 14 Learn more. NETZSCH Canada, Inc. Tel: 705-797-8426 email: info@netzsch.ca www.netzsch.ca TORNADO ® Heavy Duty Rotary Lobe Pumps Designed for the highest Operational Reliability with low life cycle costs, maintenance in place, and featuring NETZSCH GSS-T echnology - a positive separation between pr oduct and gear box. 3 Ranges 12 Models 0 - 4400 gpm NETZSCH, the world market leader with 60 years of experience and over 500,000 pr ogr essing cavity pump installations worldwide. W ith sales, pr oduction and service on 6 continents ensuring customer support to pr ovide NETZSCH Pumps Systems - Solutions you can trust “The Porcupine Camp” 100 Y ears of Mining Page 15