Timmins High and Vocational School - Porcupine Quill Yearbook (Timmins, Ontario Canada)

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49 The PORCUPINE QUILL l A Message from the Director of the Vocational School When we think of Vocational Education are we not inclined to think that it is merely a preparation for a job-a means of ea.rning money? And why earn money? Is it not that we may enjoy living! Surely life means more than merely getting money, and so also does Vocational Education. It should be a preparation for living. So many students in the vocational school are prone to think that the Typewriting, or Cooking, or Woodworking -the so-called practical subjects-are all- important. Might I stress the equal or greater importance of History-the story of man's growth and progressp Literature-a record of man's thoughts: and Science-how the man has discovered the secrets of the world about us. And when school days are over. continued study, through the reading of the best of these, will increase our appre- ciation of what has been done by past gener- ations to give us all that makes life enjoy- able-and will help make it enjoyable. A. A. ROSE I The Machine Shop Department 'Ilhis department of the Vocational School is a place of considerable interest to boys. It is a great attraction for them to be able to run the diierent machines and it has but one disappointing feature: the periods come to an end all too soon. The shop is equipped with a splendid variety of modern machines that provide an opportunity to make practically anything desired. The crib, wlhere the tools are arranged on display shelves, is looked after by the boys in turn and this experience is instructive and valuable. Here is to be found a large assort- ment of the best tools obtainable. Vifhether or not a boy specializes in the study of Machine Shop he lhas in his pos- session the knowledge of machinery that is sure to be of use to him in future life. By the use of machinery and hand tools he ob- tains experience that enables him to keep mechanical conltrivances such as the lawn mower and washing machine in proper Working order. The machine department is one of the best equipped of any school shop in the Province and the courses offered in theoretical and practical problems are of a value and variety unsurpassed in Ontario. L. BADERSKI

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48 The PORCUPINE QUILL 'T Tool After Tool At evening when our chores are done, We take our books out one by one, And look them over carefully, For homework is our specialty. First to our 'imaths we always turn, We like them for the things we learn Which sharpen, clear and train the mind And urge us on our goals to find. And later on, in years to come, When we, our long-sought goals have won, We'll see that maths -tool after tool- Just as we used them while at school, Have paved the way for us to win A peaceful place 'midst the world's mad din. LESTER I-HLL For those readers who like to try their mathe- matical ability in working out unusual pro- blems, I submit the following:- 1. If a third of six were three, What would a fourth of twenty be? 2. By using all the digits from 1 to 9 in- clusive, and putting them down in two columns, arrange them so that the sum will be 100. 3. Arrange 6 matches in the following form whose value is L- .L By moving 7 V11 only one match to another position, change the value from Lto 1 7 Scene X: THE 2800-FCOT LEVEL To exalt the present and fthe real. To teach the average man the glory of his daily work or trade. Walt Whitman The Process of Extracting Gold from the Rock in Mclntyre Mill The rock is first crushed down to six-inch boulders underground. When the ore comes to the surface it passes a magnet which takes all the steel out, then it goes through a gyratory or cone crusher which crushes the rock to fine pebbles. The ore is then taken up past another magnet and goes through a weightometer which measures the number of tons of ore. It is then taken across a tripper which distribultes the ore evenly into ore- pockets. From the ore-pockets it goes across vibrating screens which separate the large particles from the small. The large particles go to the rolls while the small ones are taken across a tripper and evenly distributed in an ore bin. In the rolls the ore is ground t0 a fine mass and taken across the screens again. This is called a circulating load. From the screens, large bins or tanks con- taining water and flotation agents could be seen. The large ore-bins have a safety-device. If a man should fall into the bin, he could save himself by catching the cable, and so break a fall of forty feet. The small particles are so minute that they look like powder. From the bins the ore goes through tubes into six tube mills, six classi- ners and six notation cells which are called the primary cells. The ore is mixed with water and flotation agenits coming from the tanks mentioned above. The large particles o back to the tube mill, and the small ones are sent to another set of flotation cells, called the secondary cells. This is called a circulating load. The tailings from the pri- mary cells are checked on a vibrating table, and then taken into froth 'tanks and pumped outside. lFrom the secondary cells the floated material, sulphides and gold, is taken into two more tube mills which grind the mass down still finer and it is then ptunped into de-water filters. The de-water nlters extract all the water by means of vacuum pumps, leaving the dry caky metallics. Then the ore is taken through cyanide filters. The concentrates are taken to a bhickener which separates the heavy ores from the light ones: then they go through presses which extract all the lime. The solution then goes through a meter, which measures the amount going through. Zinc dust is added to precipitate the gold. Precipitation presses extract all the cyan- ide, leaving either the barren solution or the gold bullion which is taken to bullion fur- naces to be shaped into Gold Bricks which are sent to the Mint. M. J. KOSTYNYK- Tech.

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50 .1-.- .? The PORCUPINE QUILL l sf , 2 1 , :QI , I ,yi U ,W 1 1. Drafting Room, Vocational School Machinists All The keen . . . impassioned beauty of a great machine. Bill Barilko: Thomas Moore: A machinist who manufactures alibis on T. J. Moorets wisecracking tongue takes a wholesale basis. the monotony out of the dullest session. Which is appreciated. Bill Sangster: Bill's disarming smile saves him many a Bob Mitchell: cross-examination. A talented newcomer, who assists in Erancis Sarmiento, nearly every school activity, to the com- ,Tis Said that ice and al cheering Crowd plete satisfaction of his classmates. will waken his mentality. Eliot Bailey: Donald Hensby: Insists upon accuracy to the last decimal Has a mania for dissecting theories, at P13091 at all timeS- which he is very unsuccessful. Arthur Manhire, Louis Baderski: Known as Sleepy Manhirej' is Very Speaks only when necessary, seldom be- conservative with his slow smile. fore. L. BLACK Spring Spring came over the hill to-day, Robins are chirping among the trees, Dancing and singing on her wayg Tiny leaves rustling in the breeze, Bringing with her -the birdies small And spiders are weaving their webs to-day That did not leave till late last fall. Because pretty spring has come this way. HARRY CHARBONNEAU, AIC I