"Actually, Sum, He did a pretty good job of it, as he had crews in there staking within hours of the strike at Eagle1."

Yes that is true.. they were out there quickly... and yes others did have land already. My point is that, though they were out of the "blocks" quickly staking, information about the strike was not contained and caused others to go into the same staking mode, which meant that was land that R.N. then couldn't control. Needless to say one couldn't stake out the whole province, but there were strategic land packages they could have benefit from to make them clearly, and I mean clearly, the most dominant and desireable to deal with. Just my opinion.