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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.