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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1961-05-18, Page 11SECOND SECTION PACES 11-14 �^�.d"'MG-di. ' •'YIX V q tTA.�, bl JIS t4`t�.ii. •. 4 M WN �•.«CC'Sf 1('C«$iail i7 �. •i'� �Cw!:},}y •y�>d4(;/1; :wl.�' { uY14vc 1, 4 U4th Year ---No. 20 I tla 7 S e,_xs • Y •YYf n 0.4. JY full 5; C fp • GObERICPC—ONTARTO. THURSDAY, MAY 18th; 90' 31 TP ,st,{,.M« .+✓«fK. ',;,5 0454' M e +ba X,, . 0 , 1.11.4 NYrs a, $$2,300,000 . PJ One project is already under way and as second one is slated for commencement some time in -.,August at Sifto Salt Limited Goderich Mine with a total over- all cost of $2,300,000. The first one is the expansion of facilities for the crushing, `screening and storage of rock salt underground. With thous; ands of tons of rock salt already W. J. Denomme FLOWER SHOP Phone JA 4 8132 DAY or NIGHT Agent for''24-hr. FILM DEVELOPING 52TF removed from themine, there is now room underground for the setting up of' a storage and mill- ing room which will be 200 feet long, 60 feet wide and 45 feet high, Work has aldy com- menced on this with the Sifto Salt employees being aided by Norcanda Limited, of Toronto, and Schaeffer -Townsend r wnsend Limit- ed, ofHamiItok_ Total cost of the job will be about $800,000, according to W. Gordon Muir, the mine manager, who added that the work will be completed about the middle of August. The second project, which will Rieck Pharmacy 14 Square (Near Colborne St,) Dial JA 4-7241 GODERICH Expansion planned be started this summer, will be the sinking. of a second shaft at a cost of about $1,500,000. This will be done at a spot about 200 -feet from the first shaft, which was completed in. the summer° of 1959. The contract has not been let for this job yet, Mr. Muir told The Signal -Star. i - g Star. 'I'Nlien started, it will take about 1% to `2 years to complete. The construction of additional buildingi;° on the surface are be- ing considered but no plans have been finalized for them. When the two aforementioned projects are completed, the total investment in the mine will run to more than $9,000,000, it is estimated., The success of the rock salt mining operations at the Gode- rich mine during the past few years is a far cry to the mining operations attempted back in 1876, At that time Henry Attrill drilled to 1,517 feet for rock salt, sank a 12 -feet -wide shaft to 250 feeet and 'abandoned the $80,000 hole. • A story by W. E. Elliott re- called that water flowed into Attrill's shaft so fast that stead pumps could not clear it. They say he could have -kept pump, ing until now, if the money 'held out, and still not have overtaken the flow. ;CALL YOUR INSURANCE AGENT BEFORE YOU BUY A CAR! that's right -your insurance agent 1", Yes, you will need insurance coverage for your ear --new or used. But, did you know you can arrane to get the cash -you need to buy a car ---in advance, through our Agent Automobile Finance.PIan? Low rates, confidential service, life -insured contracts, convenient terms, of course. Contact us before©u -b � buy your -nem ear,--You--,will—be glad you did. Phone ''Phone ALEXANDER AND .4 HENRY HARTOG 7121 CHAPMAN 9662 PETER MacEWAN 9531 /OLEN CROFT .. . 7255 HAROLD SHORE 7272 12TF Water flowed into Sifto', shaft as they knew it would, but work went on tq the triumphant end. Attrill imported e4'igineers and miners frouf Germany and other countries. Sifto relied on `an outfit from England" that knew how to block off, effective- ly and permanently, water enter- ing mine shafts. Twentieth-cen- tury knowhow did the track, and the story is no reflection upon engineeers or geologists who 80 years ago tapped and tested great rock salt beds in the Gode- rich area and could not market the riches they discovered and measured.. , Henry Yarwood Attrill, from Baltimore, acquired Ridgewood Park, across the Maitland from Goderich, in 1872. There were a dozen salt "blocks" hereabouts then, using brine and producing 100, 200 andeven 600 barrels of salt daily. They pumped up the brine, some using water to soften the rock salt,, and the For Sifto brine was placed in pans to evaporate. Demand For Rock Salt There was a demand for rock ,salt, and Attrill started diamond drilling in 1876. A government report by Heber Cole, inspected at Ottawa by this writer, makes no mention of Manhatten Salt en n a M a Co. supposed to have backed Attrill. ` It simply records that Attrill "put down a diamond drill hole with a view to deter- mining the nature and extent of the rock salt beds." One ac- count states that "the lake came in," and another version is that a mineral spring was encounter- ed. It is interesting, but of course not surprising, to find in Mr. Cole's report statistics somewhat similar to those of the 1958-59 drillers. In 1876 a salt bed 30 feet thick was encountered at 1,027 feet, and a total of 123 feet of salt layers up to 1,511 feet. Drillers in 1958 found a salt bed between 1,025 and 1,044 feet and a station was cut out at 1,040 feet, but they also found salt and dolomite between 1,044 and 1,738 and a salt bed between 1,738 and 1,766. The main sta- tion was cut- out at 1,760 and loading pockets constructed. Before the first shaft was sunk for Sifto, drilling- at various points, land and water, included one area a quarter -mile north of the Attrk shaft of 1876. The latter was lined with brick built of Portland cement. There were several hundred tons _of cast iron segments four feet long by 18 inches and one inch thick, cast to shape of the thine walls. • Rock far lining. These were brought by steamer from Saginaw, Mich. With machinery used in sinking the shaft, they were afterward§ sold for scrap. According to George Sillib, of Goderich, who as a boy worked_, at Ridgewood Park the purchaser was Mrs. Charles Humber. Dominion Tar & Chemical Company, of which Sifto is a subsidiary, describes, itself as like Eskimo sculpture "Canadian from top to bottom." The Cem- entation Company, formed in Britain in 1919, has among its subsidairies Cementation Comp- any (Canada) and the latter was awarded the contract for con- structing the mine shaft at Gode- rich. New Process What U.S. money and German engineering could not accom- plish was successfully carried out by means ofa comparatively new process: Displacing of por- ous soil by high-pressupe injec- tion of grout. Grout is a kind of cement sometimes studded with small stones, used for fill- ing in joints of brick or stone. ,This process was not known to the adventurers of the 1870's. It has been developed by The Cementation Company, whos group of subsidiaries has su innumerable shafts, most pass - ng through water -bearing strata. In br fest terms, it is describ- ed as "ground treatment." Cem- entation guaranteed Sifto that the residual shaft water would be not more than 10 gallons per minute. When the contract was completed, September'1, 1959, it WOKS SECTION w.a PAGES 11 -14 v, - M 1,a; turned out to be less than six gallons per minute. -- Up until 1955, the only rock Salt mined in Canada was from a deposit at"Malagash,, N.S. In 1955 the Canadian Rock Salt Co. began to produce from 1,100 feet below Ojibway, in Essex County, Canadian Rock Salt Co. controls the Malagash Salt Co., which a year an a half ago used carloads of cement to treat' soggy sand and silt and make possible the opening of a new mine at Pugwash. Spent Fortune When Henry Attrill in 1876 spent a fortune boring for rock salt at Goderich, there were already many successful brine operations, so he must have seen or foreseen an important market for dry salt. Yet there did not exist the number one use of rock salt today — its winter application to highway surfaces. We didn't have the highways. Of the 1,244,408 tons of rock salt mined in Canada in 1958, ne chemical industries used $4,50, 721, worth.. Some rock salt goes' to i slaughtering and meat packing industry; second largest salt coati' sumer. - Biggestproducer of rock salt is t ie United States, with 5,407,-. 00a tons in 1,958, so a of it mined from the Michi' an de- aposits f th it which o par a os s e me bed as in Western Ontario., Germany came 4 next wi 3,558,000 tons. Canada's '14244, 908 was more than 50% greater than in 1958, and Goderich out- put is continuing to hoist it substantially. BELONGED TO THE 161st Elijah Sword, 62, of Walpole Island, has been charged with the murder of Samson Sands, 69, also of Walpole Island. Sands joined the I49th Lambtoa Battalion in World War I and was transferred later to the 161st Battalion in which there were many Goderich and district men. AND ALL TYPES OF BEAUTY, CARE - 3 GRADUATE OPERATORS -Harry Colclough Len Pounder Elizabeth Hoitohi GODERICH DISTRICT =COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE ANNOUNCES Meetings For Grade 8 Students AND THEIRPARENTS IN THE AUDITORIUM INFORMATION REGARDING COURSES OFFERED AND OPTIONS AVAILABLE GODERICH grade 8 students and their parents WEDNESDAy,YMAY 24 n OTHER grade 8 students and their parents • at 8' P:14., A second shaft is 'to be sunk at Sifto-Salt Limited Goderich mine. 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