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Saul Ninepence [two underlined] was the first one to tell the story of their lead mine on. Traveller. The story was that an old man of the tribe knew where there was lead and always could get it when he wanted it; he had been following a moose one day and as the creature ran up the mountain side its foot slipped on a ledge and there was revealed, where it had rubbed off the incrustation, a bright streak of lead. Always after he got all the lead he wanted. One time some young men tried to find it. When they got to a big cedar it grew dark. Saul stopped sententiously; they didn't

It was claimed to be discovered at Stair Falls, then at Grand Pitch ("Gran FItch") Old Franceway Peneas was the one who salted the mine for the priest going three days journey up the East Branch & running some silver dollars into the cracks in a rock. On the way back to the mine the priest whom he had lured by tales of gain was taken very ill. "T'ought by hell old debble she would die, so me los' all our silver dollars"