HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1972-04-27, Page 14A 'GGOPERICB :SIGNAL STAR, THURSDAY. APRIL 27, 1972
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BY W. E. ELLIOTT
A' granite cross, west of the
driveway as you leave the upper
WYO. of Maitland Cemetery, for
many years identified the grave of
Henry Yarwood Attrill. The
spread of lichen and the inroads of
weather' since 1892 have almost
obliterated the name. The stone is
no longer a memorial....
There is a memorial; and it is
not Ridgewood Park, though some
oldresideets speak of the Attrill
place :and Attrill's Point You
might say there is a $20,000,000
memorial Dainty's salt mine,'
alight not be where it is hall not
Attrill spent $80,000 putting down
a . shaft and kept an• accurate
record of the geological
formations.
"The company explored. in
several places," Mine. Manager
Gordon. Muir tori ,Goderil h
Rotary. Club recently. "but
Attrill'salog encouraged them' to
come here."
So Domtar made tests _here in
1958, and next year the shaft was
sunk, 300 yards from• Attrill's
shaft, a couple of hundred feet
deeper than he drilled," and 83
years later.
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In his 1930 report to the
Y)epartment of Mines at Ottawa,
L. Heber Cole wrote: "Among the
earlier borings made in this
region (Ontario), the most
important was the diamond drill
hole put down by Mr. Henry Aitrill
in 1476."
The results of the drilling, as
interpreted from the log and the
cores. .are largely portrayed in
the cha rt to be seen in the lobby of
the salt mine office. The drilling
showed y123 feet of salt in a
distance of 388" feet. divided into
six beds, ranging from six feet 'to
nearly 35 feetin thickness.
John S. Platt, "whet'was in the
salt industry here, wrote that
Attrill started,to sinka mine in
the salt bed 13 feet in -diameter,
lined with brick built with
Portland cement. 37 feet to the'
rock He imported engineers and
miners from Germany and other
countries. They succeeded to a
d bpth of 250 feet. when .a mineral
spring was encountered and the
inflow was so great that several
•large • steam pumps could not
pump it but The 'mine was
abandoned after expenditure of
about S8Q,000-:--'There were
—several hundred tons of cast iron
Maitland- River front
developing for future
At a peen l meeting of
Colborne Township Council held
on Tuesday. April 18, 1972 at the
Township Hall Carlow with ,ill
members present. 4 of 'the 5
questionnaires dealing with land
severences that were approved
Were on the Maitland River. •
Due to the nurrrher of
applications for Tile Drainage
,L.oansthe Clerk was instructed to•
commence procedure -for a
$100.000 Tile Drainage
Borrowing By -Law. Grants were
approved foPDiingarinon Fair. the
Huron County Historical Society
and Membership in the Huron
Coulity Munici ,a1 Officers
Association. At the request of the
Tiger Dunlop Women's Institute 2
fire extinguishers are' to be
placed in the Township hall.
' The Clerk, was instructed to
advertise a' meeting of • all
ratepayers in the Township
Dungannon UC
irrteresteff in the 'promotion of a
Township Recreation Program
This meeting is to be held
Thursday; May 4. 1972 at 8 p m
and it is hoped'that there will he a
good attendance ' of pythons
interested in the above subject
either as an organizer. leader or,.
participant. Grants are available
for surd programs when
organized by a municipality
Recreation is a broad field
Activities might include such
programs as: sports activities.
negotiation With neighboring
municipalities re: swimming and
hockeyfacilities. etc . formation
of apublic library. a Municipal
park,: evening'classes. arts anti
crafts. senior citizens'
programs. -A • good recreation
program is the promoti'n of
cultural, educational.. physical
and social activities . within the
municipality.
lxplorerkader tetis
about projects for girls
• - The United Church Women -met
on Tuesday, April 18 •at 8:15 p.m.
Mrs. Mel Dickson introduced
Mrs. Bill Stewart, leader of the
Explorers.
Mrs. Stewart told of the work
and crafts being done. and
introduced the Explorers. •The
girls, repeated their purpose and
motto in unison, Mrs. Stewart lend
GOWER'S
SPRING
WORK
BOOTS
in prayer. The, Explorer hymn
'This Is My Father's World:
followed:"
Annette Hodges . read a Bible
passage. Mrs. Ross Eedy thanked
the girls and theme leader" for their
part in our meeting.
Mr`s, 'MO—Dickson and Mrs.
Ross Eedv continued the meeting
with diffef•ent readings,? on the
theme ''Loneliness'.
Plans are being made for
Ladies Day" which will be in our
church the first day of June.
The Nile and Dungannon ladles
are planning a bus trip on June 12.
Miss Beth McConnell gave a
reading entitled The Day of
Resurrection".
-A social time followed with
Mrs. J. Alton and Mrs. L. s
.
as lunch hostesses ,
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It here
segments four feet long, 18 inches •
wide, one inch thick, cast to shape .
, of the mine walls. for lining. These
came by"steamer from Sagipaw,
and eventually were sold as,
scrap."
When the Ridge property was
advertised' for sale, after the
death of Registrar John Galt, it
was' purchased by Henry Y.
Attrill, of Baltimore, part in
1873, the remainder in -I-875.. He
built the large house adjoining on
the north -the lor and stucco
cottage. built in the 1830s for
Baron van Tuyll of Holland
Perhaps because the Attrills
lived after the style of English
gentry, it was always assumed
that they,were of English origin.
Confirmation is found in the
Maitland 1,Cemetery records.
Henry Attrill, his wife. and his
son'Thomas were born in,
England.
-0 They were not very long.
perhaps: residents of 'Baltimore.
From the Maryland Historical
Society it is learned that the
Baltimore city directory of 1868-
69 showed Henry Y. Attrill living
at the Fountain. Hotel. The 1870
directory' shows Henry Y. Attrill,
vice-president of the People's
Gas Company, at 40 N Calhoun
street. The last time he appears
is in 1874. at 209 St. Paul street.
The Chicago Times in Januar,',
1881. reported.Attrill (by now a
resident of Goderich) as
defendant in a Baltimore case in
which a jury returned a verdict
for S67.000 damages against him.
for services 'of Judge Patterson
„"in compromising, difficulties
between New 'Orleans Gaslight
Co and the New Crescent City
Gaslight Company "
When Henry. Attrill •died in
Toronto iii 189?. in his 70th near.
the Goderich Signal published
,.wthi'ng -about. his, life. hut
commented that on Tore than -one
occasion he had "made liberal
,proposals -for advancement of the •
town, which had pot been seconded:
as they should have been " .
If elderly residents .remember
any of the Attrills rt• would likely~
be the daughter Elizabeth or son
Edward. From 1900. they were
owners of The Ridge and other
properties in Colborne Their
fathershad kept driving horses:
Durham cattle. sheep and. hogs.
•being the only one of the owners '61
The, Ridge up until now to do so.
There was a farmer. resident on
the place. to look after stock and
crops. •Attrill's widow continued
to keep livestock.
• The late George Sillih. who
worked at Attrill's as a hov. said
the Attrill carriage was s4 -.)1(1s4-.)1(1- Count stvie, rira n by Hja-ck yse
and with the driveron a high seat
I sometimes drove -Elizabeth• to
town Bessie had nine Shetland
ponies. They. Fere taken to the
hush and .chloroformed when.
B.essie died." a
Elizabeth'died in 1906. Edward
in
1907. aged 37•' Another son,
Thomas. died in 1880. There were
two daughters.. Grace (Mrs.
Heaton)and Mar.v.kMrs. Wright).
-Mrs. Attrill's .will names James
•Blackburn: Attrill, but he is not
.otherwise identified.
F.00fston-es at the Maitland plot
Show the letters F.C. (tor: Edward
-Chan.,', . and HFA (for Helen -
Forrester, wife of Henry) She
died February '22. 1900. The
Signal praised her personal
qualities, but. offered nothing
otherwise about' her or other
members of the family.`
'A few years after the failure of
his salt project. Henry Attrill
settled all his property upon his
'wife, and when she died eight
years afterhfm, she left it to• the
children, chiefly Elizabeth and
Edward, Her will bears the
signature of Arthur Sturgis Hardy
as surrogate clerk, Mr. Hardy
only a few weeks earlier -had
vacated the 'premiership of
Ontario.
There is no mention in the will
of property in England. Chief item
in an estate of $85,000 was "bank
and other stocks in the United,
States, $60,066," The.e were 46
vacant lots in Grand Rapids and
one in Chicago. and $20,000 in
U.S. mortgages. Silver, china and
furniture were bequeathed : to
Elizabeth. also 400 shares in the
capital.„stock `61 New Orleans
Gaslight Company The property
in Goderich . and Colborne,
'``settled on me for life by my late
husband" included parts of
Blocks A, B. C. E and F, "the
Island and the Great Meadow."
They Ridgewood property was.
sold in 1913 to Oscar E. Fleming,
of' Windsor.. 'The Attrill Barrie;
almost forgotten otherwise, is
preserved in memorial windows
in the north transept of St.,
Georges church. "erected by the
sisters in loving rnetnory"• of
Thomas, Edwai;ai' anti Elizabeth.
Muir has opened up .an
interesting flashback.
W1 Branch
forms at Holmesvllle
Mrs J. C. Banter, RR 2,
Clinton, was named president of
the new Women's Institute blanch
formed last Thursday in the
Holmesvllle hall, Mrs. Wilmer
Riddell, RR 3, .Clinton, was
chosen secretary -treasurer and
Mrs.. Stanley Mcllwain, RR. 2,
GoAtrich, was named district
director. '
This new branch which had 16'
charter members chose
..Goderich Township W.I.
Branch" as its first- choice of
names with Friendship Branch
tieing second and BridgeJiater
tieing third,',
M,t's William Pof3'ter brought
the meeting to order and
rntrOduced the visitors of the
evening Mrs. Norman Coulthard,
Parris provincial 'board
member: Mrs. Harold Gaunt, St.
Helens, Huron West - District
president; Mrs. Graham McNee,
Dungannon, district secretary=.
trt'.rsurer; and Mrs. Eleanor
Hradnock, Auburn, district public
'relations officer.w.Also present
wereMrs. Donald Cartwright and
Mrs Frank Raithby of the Auburn
Mrs Gaunt outlined the aims
And tthjectives of this world-iEle
,"rganization and Mrs. Coulthard
organized the Branch which will
m.Oet the third Thursday of every
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