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Samuel, burning lime in a l+ g mills inasmuch as it could
hemp for the construction.. of a Operate in e11 SettSOns regardless
l and saw milt at the rain etstreatn levels or ,ice .cgnditioat ,
the ° corner. of Princess and and for this reason Ranee's milt
Albert Streets. The bricks : for the drew business tram . a wide
""� milt probably came from Thomas territory. The steam mill in all
East's brickyard near the corner probability put Cook's Mill on the
of Church Horth Streets (see " Bayfield River (see 49) out of
34). The milt. which came into business.
operation in 1854,. was powered by About 1860 the mill came under
steam froth the outset. The the proprietorship, of William
boiler, engine. ' and machinery Murray and James Tunney.
must. have come in by wagon. for These partners added, . a
the,railroad was still three years distillery to the ;Frill, and
away.
art reputed by folklore to have
As originally built, the mill was invented the loss leader in the
of brick construction, and either form of tree access to a barrel of
three or four storeys high. `Water whisky at,the front of the mill, - a
for the boiler may have been . story, all things considered. that
obtained from a small stream is highly unlikely. it is not known
that Made its way approximately whether Murray and Tunney
across the intersection of Prin- went broke from giving away
cess and Albert Streets and whisky or conversely were able
continued down Orange Street to to retire from not doing so. but by
a junction 'with a stream that 1869 the mill was in the hands of
flowed more or less down .Mary James Fair and remained in .his
65 - News -Record was ..moving
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65 - east side of Albert Street, Ran"test'ord: In April of that year it
Rattenbuiy Street East was shifted to the north to make
to Princess Street room for the construction of the
Murray" Block -the corner store of
- copyright 1975 ' which is presently occupied by
In 1868 the reach ' o`f Albert Galbraith's Electrohomc outlet.
street north of the present News the first occupant of the Murray
Record Office . (at •that time Block was Hodgen's. taking up
Watt's drugstore built as early'as the whole building under the
1861) was occupied by a row of name Hodgen's Palace.. in
wooden stores operated by the millinery and drygoods.
following: D.M. McCully; J. Between the Murray Block and
Steep. boots and shoes; W. ' present News -Record office there
Robson. grocer: Irwin and were formerly four wooden
Hodgcns. dry goods; Commander stores including the bookstore
and Eider. drygoods: H. Nor- meed to 'make wily for the
swarthy. tailor and fancy wares; Murray Block. In 1889 they were
J. Fullerton. photographer;. ,G, occupied. south to north. by: F.
Lee, saddler; James Miller, Sheppard, tailor; W.H. Black.
livery stable; and R.M. Racey. • u cfaer: a paint shop. apparently
hardware. vacant: and Glasgow's woollen
In May of 1868 these premises. shop. -Three of these were
excluding those at the corner of severely damaged in a fire in
Princess and Albert.. were built November 1889. and all • were
following thte•:•fire, and 'became pulled down in April 1890 by the
known as the "Brick Block". the Mr. Murray who had built the
name being indicative of the Mueray Block•
relatively few brick buildings in In August i89Q, Mr. D. Mc -
the town at that time: Twelve Taggart purchased the t'v:e lots
years later there were still only adjoining the News -Record and
seventy brick buildings of all built, the building presently oc-
kinds in the town. cupied by Beecher Menzie's law
In 1878 the present vacant office. The southern half of the
space just to the north of Bali and building was used by Mr. Mc-
Mutch was apparently occupied Taggart as, a private, bank,
by an implement storehouse. of opened in June 1891, the northern
frame construction. the history of half_ being refuted as a store. The
weeeh is unknown. In 1884 there lot immediately north of the
was Apparently a €rame store at Murray Block remained vacant
the earner of..Prineess.and._Albert.. _ until 1950 when T.R. Thompson
operated by Mr. Sheppard. It was built t'tiiiuf'"(' thing. presenily &-
damaged by fire in 1884 but was cupied by The Arbor on
afterwards repaired. The present ground floor and Dr` Palmer s
brick building on the corner was dentistry offices above. With the
built as the office for Fair's Mill building of the office at present
(sec;;'September 1890. • occupied by Morden and Helwig,
In 1881 the. nR,;r11 corner of Insurance Adjustors. by J.
Rattenbury East and Albert Sangster in 1958 the vacant space
Street was occupied by a wooden lea tv Mr. Murray's demolition
bookstore operated by R.H. in 1890 was ;ted.
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James toOlt over.
Over the yea: Mr. Fair made
many cit _Miles to the milli A; Pond.
bad beenexcavated about 10$0. A
lite to the east of the present
.PUC office, to ;supply water for
- -the boiler, In,ROM :it was enlarged
and deepened at the toynia *ex -
e for tirerotection pur-
ses, At the same time, a
pri