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FRIDAY,
NOV. 27en, 1885.
OWING to the pressure of other
emitter eve are compelled to omit a
quantity of editorial and correspon,
deuce this week.
THE P00e1 HOUSE QUESTION.
The county council will meet at
kioderi0i on Tuesday next, when,
auunig other things, we hope to see
the poor house question brought up
and pt'operly discussed. • It has here-
tofore been brought before the board,
but we maintain it hs never received
the consideration its importance de -
Mends. Let the county councillors
carefully weigh the subject in their
OW11 minds, taking everything into
consideration, aud we think we are
eate iu prelicting that they will con-
clude tc'reverse their clecisiou of last
%Spring and proceecl with the work.
The grand jury at the last assizes
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placed the fact on record, and it has
been hearlded abroad,. that it is a
+crime to be poor in the county of
Huron. Let the county council per-
form a simple act of justice to an un-
fortunate class of the community,, tied
remove the stigma that is at present
very properly applied to our county.
LAST Saturday Sir John Macdonald
took a sudden notion and set sail for
Eugland, whether for the purpose of
looking after important business re-
lating to our government, as his
Lie ds claim, or to escape for a time
the vengeance of his French Canadian
fallowers, it is difficult to deter-
'
Mine.
"GO DEMPEE,"
every one of them, or one, two, three
or four of them might be -mimed and
the fifth and sixth struck. And,
while he would say there is no rein
ben for ue to be diecouraged, it is
possible we might not etriles one bed.
fMsxo.—To illustrate Prof. Selwyn's idea on this
peen we might state that the salt beds are found in
layers beneath the surface something like In this way.
the wave line indicating the surface of the ground
and the others layers of salt, Piave that they are lea.
ticular;
1 2 3 4
By boring at Fig. 1 but two beds of salt would
be struck; at Mg. 2 six; at Fig. 3 four, and at Fig. 4
none.—En. Tams.]
Of one thing he was sure and that
was we had not reached the base of
the formation. As near as he could
judge the rocks we are now passing
through belong to the saline forma,
tion; still it was very bard to speak
decidedly on this point, e3 the drill
poulled the rock so fine it was difficult
based his epinion ou this fact: at
Goderich, in boring at Attrill's well,
salt was struck at a depth of 975 feet
below the level of the lake, and, add-
ing 105 feet for the height of the bank,
would: matte 1,080 feet from, the sur-
face; Blyth salt wits struck at 1,130
feet, while we in Wingham appear to
have struck a thin bed at 1,145 feet.
Presumably this may be taken as repr e•
senting the first bed. The borings
at Attrill's well struck the sixth bed
of salt at a depth of 1,408 feet from
the surface,. thus giving a depth of BEsT FAMILY PAPER IN CANADA.
388 feet occupied by salt beds. Now, Established 41 Years.
the first beds of salt at the Wingliam
welt occured at 1,145 feet, and adding
to this.388 feet (the apparent depth
.of the salt horizon, at Uoderieh) we
should go the depth of 1,533feet before
feeling d.sceuraged, as in his opinion
we might at any moment strike a
good bed of salt down to that distance
at least. The very fact that we re-
cently passed through, what is no doubt
a considerable bed of salt is evidence
that we are not through. the. forma-
tion, and to his mind this bed repre-
sents one of the beds found.at Atteill's
to ge a specimen of the rock. But he
no doubt later that Wingbani is a very
wieked atoil ungodly town, void of all
respectability separate trom Scott Act
.supporters. But, sir, such is not the
case. I challenge li'rank Buchanan, or
any other mentor of public morals, to
name any town in Canada of similar
, size that excels us in intelligerice.
I morality or respectability. The 101114.
dation and neunspeing of this burning
question that disturbs public senti-
ment, and is fast sapping the futilely. -
teems of society, is in my humble °pile
we a political subterfuge, for politiaal
ends, and not the interests of morel ity
or well being of the 4ubject. Str John
Macdonald and the Elon. Oliver Mowat
are bettline fur the control of the
liquor traffic, with the view of
strengthening their respective posi•
tions. Strong partizans ou both sides
are severing social ties and. fiercely
fighting one against the other for a
political victory. There are, hovever,
thousands of good and true men who
do not " range themsels es with the
merrow minded, the iliiterate, the
criminal, and the drunken sot who
cannot do without his grog," who de-
plore the arbitrary clauses of the Scott
Act as a farce and am unwarrantable
interference with the liberties of ft
person, who will not be controlled by
it, or lend a hand to enforee its pro-
vieions. It is a bad law that will not
be respected. Thankine you, sir, for
the space given, I am, yours truly,
A. SILENT OBSERVER.
Wiugham, Nov. 23rd, 1885.
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welL He would advise the conned (if ses
is the advice given in reference to our
they fancied they had not sufficient 1:7;
Salt Well by Prof. Selvvyn.—Plis
salt) to. continue to a depth of 1,533
views on the subject. feet, and, in the event of no other eat
beds being found, he would certainly
On Tuesday our town was Levered , test the bed we are now in by pump -
with a visit from Prof. Selwyn, of ing, as this was the only possible way
Ottawa, Director of the Geoloeicall to find out what we have. Bat iu
Survey of Canada, who came for the :his opinion, judging from the qnality-
purpose of giving the council his ` of the brine shown. him, he Lad very
views regarding the prospects of our' little doubt but that. we now had a
Kilt well. In compo.ny with several good well.
cf our leading citizen.; he spent a par- A. number of those present expressed
tion of the day in eXalliinirig the ort- themselves as extremely gratified. with
crop of rock at various points. In the the remarks of Prof.Selwyn, and after
neighborhood, and in the afternoon at tendering hien a vote of thanks for his
the council chamber he gave the re- kindness he left by the afternoon train
welt of his researches. for London, with the intention of vis -
The professor commenced by saying iting Chatham and other western
that, although he had made rocks a points to :make collections for the
etudy for forty years, he could not say Colonial and Indian Exhibitone.
that his views had always been found
correct, and in giving his views on VIE COUNCIL DECIDES TO TAKE HIS
the prospects of our salt well be could ADVICE.
A special meeting of the council
only be guided by the light of exper-
was held on Wednesday evening for
ince. It would be impossible for him
the purpose taking the matter into
to speak authoritively. He could not
kitty "I know you will find salt if you consideratien. Bell had that day
finished his contraet of 1,400 feet,
go deep enough," but all he could say
and it was decided to instruct him to
was that he believed er chances of
proceed with the work and go at least
finding salt within the next 100 or
150 feet more, unless a fresh bed of
200 'feet are exce, dingly good, if, in-
'isleed, we have not already found it in
paying quantities. But we must bear in
kiwi(' at the same time there are
diances that no more salt will be
found, Salt beds are not spread um-
furmly over the whole of the saline
ionisation, but aro lenticular, and
there am no surface marks to in-
dicate where they thin out. To begin
'with, all rocks above the primary are
edimentary, and the themy is that
there was e depression in these fedi-
mentary rocks beneath the Onondaga,
er saline., formation ; that the surface
of this depression was probeley of a
character shnilar to the surface now,
that is, consisting of hills and Lullows.
In some way this depression was filled
with sea water, and, as any heavy
materiel held by the water settled to
the bottom, the sea water, by drain -
,ng off and evaporation, was gradually
eoneentrated into the hollows, and
is elm evaporation went on deposited
ealetbroughout the territory in every
hoilow. Then it eippeera rinotleir
overflow took place, drift was carried
en, and the whole face of the territory
was probably changed—bills. and
hollows were again formed and salt
was again depositea in the liollnws,
And so this continued to L110 end ef
whet is called the Otiondaga.formation,
salt was struck earlier. Mr. Bell has
agreed to drill to any required depth
for $2.50 per foot.
A Reply to Frank Buchanan.
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To the Editor of TER TIMES.
DEAR SIR, --4.11 your isme of the
20th inst., I read what might reason-
ably be designated "The ravings of a
Toronto mesanthropie on anti -Scotts
Act residents of Wingliam." It , is
well that tho. writer gives his name
aid residence, as it obviates the possi-
bility of any mistakes being made in
crediting the honors duo to the author
of that disreputable production. I
believe there is a science that treats on
the mental faculties of mankind, lune-
ing and describing by diviennis and
numbers the human skull. 1 would
suggest and urgently advise Franlc
Bnchanan, of Toronto, a late resident
of Wingharn, to call in some 'eliable
and trustworthy phrenologist to make
a searching examination of his queer
pato, and obtain 0 diagnosis of No.
15—"the seat of self-esteem." The
development of this faculty has evi-
dentiy received much care from Frank,
its growth has boon reirarkable, so
much so, that his mental faculties
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