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TITRS'D!A'l t SEP( 5, 1929,
TJ E $'AFORTH NEWS,
Snowdon Bros., Publishers.
WALTON.
•Mrs. 'J. Clark spent last week in
"Listowel with Mr. and Mrs, George
' �rlark,
Ivir. and Mrs. J, Bishop and Mr, R,
W. Hoy and son Earl spent the week
*tend at J`ltornbury.
Mrs, E, Bateman of care daughter
" and
.Mrs.. \l . Bateman a
Iris of Toronto spent the week end at
the home of Mr. anneat and Mr. WaltHoer
Mr. W. C. Bennett are spending a
"lEatau of � uithrop
ley,' days at Niagara.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Riddell and
°'Crloria and Jack of Toronto, and Mrs.
tray theon Mr, andohies.t3. Love,
Mr.
Sutt-
Mr. ,and Mrs, L. 'Chnintings and
family spent Sunday with friends at
.Iona and Strathroy. has left far
Miss Rteby Young
Strathroy where she will teach this
:year. Love and Miss Margaret
.Mrs, J.
Love are spending a few days with
'lMrs. Fred Kerley and Miss Amy
:Love of Toronto.
Miss \iargaret Love and .Miss Amy
are leaving Saturday for New York.
Miss Margaret Eaton is visiting
Mrs. W. C. Bennett,
with and daughter
Mrs, Robert Naylor
Lois who have been visiting with rel-
w.tives around Walton have returned
-to their home in Rochester.
Mn. Wesley Clark of Stratford
and friend, spent the holiday
with Mr. and' Mrs. A. Sohier. Austin
'Mr. Albert Harris and Mr.
'Harris of Goderich have returned to
Walton.
Mr, and Mrs. Charles Sellers and
son Clayton have returned to their
rte after spending their holidays
home
rn Heidelberg.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Davidson and
son and Mrs• Watson spent the holi-
day at Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Benntt's.
Mn. and Mrs. J. \V. Morrison
Pontiac, Mich., spent the holiday vis-
iting bhe latter's parents, Mr, and
Mrs. W. Hoy and other friends.
Mrs. Joseph Davidson of Landon
is visiting her parents, Mr, and Mrs.
J, Bennett.
Mr. and Mrs. Ivy Henderson and
fancily of Seaforth spent Sunday at
the hone of Mr. and Mrs. W, S. Far-
'quharson.
Mr, .and Mrs. William Leeming,
Thomas and Agnes, of Hamilton, vis-
ited Mr. and Mrs. Thos Leeming last
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Finlay Ross lasta
Ivloasejaw called on friends
week. on who has
Mrs. Annie Morrison,
been under the doctor's care, is im-
proving.
Mr. and Mrs. John Leeming were
Toronto visitors.
Mrs: Leonard Leeming entertained
nine little girls to a party on Thurs-
day last.
Miss Hannah Rhin and Mrs, Mills
of .Woodham visited Mr. and Mrs.
'William McGavin last week.
School has opened again after the
holidays. to
Mrs. Naylor and Lois returned
'their home in Rochester on Monday
eaf this week.
Mrs. J. Mowbray and Gordon paid
.a flying visit to friends here over the
holiday.
.Lir. and Mrs. J. Riddel and children
of Toronto spent Che week end visit-
ing friends in and around the village.
J. Watt was in Toronto this week
combining business with pleasure.
George Ferguson, Toronto, was in
the village on Friday.
Mrs. J. Clark has been visiting for
the past two weeks in Listowel.
Miss Jennie Marshall has been un-
der the weather with an attack of
tansilitts.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. M rr son spent
a few days with ;he latter's parents,
Mr. and Mee. Win. Hoy.
G. bP, Chambers on Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. 'Iiugh Chambers and
family, of Torgnto were guests of. Mr,
and Mss. G. M. Chambers Thursday,
Mn and Mrs, Fred Bowen of Gode-
rich and Mr. and Mrs. Wes. Bowen
of Royal Oak, •'N[ich., visited over 'the
week end with Mr, and Mrs, harry
Bowen.
The many friends of Mrs. Leslie
1'-lilborn were sorry to know she was
under the dactors care for a few days.
Rev. A. Shore is resting easily and
his condition considerably improved.
at present, Mr, Shore collapsed with
a heart attack last week, The melt
hers of his eoagregation and friends
trast the improvement will continue.
Na service was held in Trinity, Bel -
grave or Auburn Anglican Churches
an Sunday.
Quite a number atteaded the fune-
ral of Mr, John Scott in Morris on
Tuesday afternoon, Mr. Scott died
on Saturday in Wingham hospital.
He had been in poor health for some
time previous, being attended lately
by his sister, Mrs, A. Radford Sr.
Mn. Scott was 'born and brought up
on the 9th line of Morris. His wife
predeceased hien several years ago.
'rite Ladies' Aid of Queen Street
t
United Church, which met at
home of Mrs, Stanley Chellew Tues-
day afternoon. set the date of their
bazaar as Saturday, November 30th.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Johnston
and Iona spent Sunday everting with
Mr, and Mrs. Thos, S'hoebottorn of
Betgrave.
Mr, and Mrs, Nelson Nicholson Gans
family visited at George Nichol n
Sunday afternoon,
Mr. and Mrs. George Manner sof
Brueeels were guests at John and
\era, Granby on Sunday. couple
Mrs. Thos. Granby spent a P
of days with Mr, and Mrs. Alfred
Nrsbitt of Auburn. and
\Ir, and Mrs, Chas. Nicholson n
Gordon spent Sunday at Joseph Stor-
ey'., Seaforth. CowanMiss. Janet Cof Wingham
spent the week end with friends here.
spent
Edith Taylor of Detroit was
was a visitor with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. A. 'Taylor.
Mr, and Mrs. Mitchell of Detroit
visited Mrs. Mitchell's parents,
and Mrs, A. 'Taylor,
Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Burnside of
Markdale, Mr. and 'Mrs. L. O. Miller
and son of Goderich were visitors
with Mrs. J, Colclough on Monday.
Mr, Stewart Robinson of Fort Erie
pent the holiday with his parents,
\lr. and Mrs. R. H. Robinson.
Miss Tena Edmeston of Maine, is
visiting relatives and friends here.
Dry weather this summer was a
drawback to the success of the annual
flower show held Thursday n Me-
morial Hall but the displays ofg
ii and roses were'wonderful. Several
visitors from a disbam'ce were both
surprised and impressed with some of
the varieties while others were poorer
than usual. The biggest exhibits in
gladiolus were those of Mrs. Duncan
'McCallum and Mrs. Frank Little and
in the roses. Mrs. G. M. Charnbers
and Mrs, Lou Williams.
The proceeds from the supper a-
mounted to $70..
Mr. John Fraser and men have
'teen busy this week with the ditching
machine, draining a 40 -rod piece of
particularly boggy swamp at the back
of Mr. Ab, Radford's farm west of
Londesboro.
Mr. and Mrs. Lorne Burling and
son and Mr. Thos. Beirnes, Toronto,
and Mr. Geo. Burling, St. Catherines,
..vere holiday guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Resiling.
Massey: arr s
QUEBEC SULKY PLOW
This is the most popular sulky
plow on the market. It is eas-
ily handled..g boy can operate
it,. Rsers declare it does as
good work as a walking plow.
See' us for full particulars.
We also have WEED COP,
the famous non-poisonous weed
killer,
Gallop: & Mclllp ne
Agents for Massey -Harris Implements and Repairs
Beatty Bros. Farm Equipment Metallic Roofing
Frost Fence Gas & Oil OPEN EVENING
WINTHROP,
Mr, and Mrs. A. Stone and children'
Donnie and Jimmie 01 Norwich, are
visiting Mr, and Mrs. Sol Shannon.
Mr. John Bullard is spending a
week with friends in Detroit,
Mr. and Airs. A. McGregor spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Do -Image.
1Zenaie Bennett and Tim Eaton
spent the week end in Niagara Falls
and Toronto. Rennie ordered two
cars of peaches.
Mr. Finlay Rosa of the Weal visited
Mr. and Mrs, P..Little last week.
Mr. Theo Holland spent Sunday
with his .daughter, Mrs. Robert Hogg,
of Goderich.
Mr. Elton Hoist has returned to
Toronto after spending a month with
Isis mother, Mrs. Heist.
Mr. spent Mr. and Mrs. Mel Claricep
Sun-
day with friends in Varna.
Miss Margaret Eaton visited Mrs,
W. C. Bennett of Walton for a few
days this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Fergus Bullard .called
in Mr. and Mrs• H. Srnalldon of
Walton Sunday evening. UricJr„ of
Mr. and Mrs. Jas, S. J
Windsor, Ontario, spent Labor Day
with the latter's father, Mr. John
Shannon of Winthrop.
BLYTH,
-Mrs. Kelly is visiting with her son,
Mr. Leo Kelly at Glenallen.
Mr. and Mrs. John Garniss moved
on Friday -Co Lucknow avhere Mr.
Garniss has taken a position in a but-
cher ..hop.
Mrs. William Armstrong of Sault
*Ste. Marie and son Bill are visiting
Ivdr. and Mrs. Nathaniel Johnston and
also her brother. Mr. Eldred Johnston.
A successful bowling tournament
was held here on Monday when a
good crowd was present and contest
keen. Mr. Gerry of Brussels received
first prize with four wins, the prize
being an auto rug; second prize, John
third
Beattie, Seaforth, an auto rug;
prize, R. Downing, Brussels and Griff-
iths Goderich, tied, bowling shoes.
fro,e taking part were: R. H. Rob-
: •nsoa,.Blyah; P. Cowan, G•rderich; H.
' Gidley,'Biyth; R. Downing, Brussels;
R. 8nwanan, Brussels; Griffiths. God-
.erith; John Beattie, Seaforth; Harry
'Stewart, Seaforth; R. Somers,Blyth;
Coombs, Wingham; T. Pritchard Go -
(feria; E.Denholm, J. Mason, L. Dale, Seahorth;
T. MciDermid, Goderich; Gerry, Brus-
sels.
Mr. and Mrs. William Routledge
and Dorothy of Sault Ste. Marie ar-
rived on Friday and are visiting Mr.
and Mr. Irvine Wallace who accom-
panied them to Niagara Fails over bhe
holiday.
Mr. and Mrs. Bert Craig of Detroit
:are. visiting ibis. and Mrs, William
Rinner,
Mr and Mrs. Wesley Rath of Har-
-ow. are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Earl
Dexter and Mr. and Mrs 3. 3, Mason.
Airs. Kellerman of Dashwood, for-
merly of Blyth, visited friends on
Tuesday.
Mr. Jos. Stothers has decided to
hold an auction sale of his household
goods in a few weeks, before going to
Sarnia to make his home with his
daughter, Mrs. MacNeill and Mr.
MacNeill, Everyone •• here -will be
sorry what Me. Stothers is leaving
Blyth.
Miss Aliberta Stackhottse returned
Cii^sriay to Denver, Col, and Ur. and
Mus: MacNeill to Sarnia after spend-
ing.;several weeks at their home owing
to the illness and death of Mrs, Sr,th-
ens.
las Iona 'Stothers returns on Sat-
ter to Klekl.atf'd Lake.
'Mr and Mrs, 'Fred Ivtiiiler and fans-
i1y of Detroit •vioited Mr. and ides.
HARLOCK.
Miss Bertha Hoggart was in To-
t 1111. this week.
Miss Edythe Beacom and Miss
t)!i, Kn.x are attending collegiate
in Blyth.
1 Misses Helen and Marjorie
McEwing are attending school in
Clinton this season and Miss Marie
f2.pson will be helping with the of-
fice work in the school for a time.
.Miss Florence Knox of Toronto
+cited at the home of her parents,
31e. anti Mer. W. H. Knox over the
week end.
Mr, John Sheppard and son Win.
of Clinton visited at the home of Mr.
itul Mrs. A. W. Beacom on Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Rapson visited
it the home of Mr. and -Mrs. Frank
Little Sunday afternoon,
A number of the girls from around
Itarlock visited at the home of Mrs.
Ah. Vodden on Monday afternoon
and had a very enjoyable time.
We are pleased to know that Mrs.
Angus Reid who has been very seri-
ously ill, is improving and hope for
a speedy recovery.
.Mr, and Mrs. Thos. Adams of the
Huron Road visited at the home of
the former's sister, Mrs. Chas. Par-
sons on Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. John Hudie and son
f Bayfield visited at Mr. and Mrs, A.
W. McEwing an Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Beacom,
Messrs. Harold and Bert and Miss
Edythe Beacon visited at the home of
Mrs. Beacom's sister, Mrs. Vipond,
in Grey, on Sunday.
M:•. and bars. Solomon Shannon
acre in Toronto one day last week.
\We are pleased to have Mr, Adams
in Harlock again. He is at present
visiting at the home of his daughter,
Mr;. C. Parsons.
Mrs. (Dr:1 Coleman, Mr. Herbert
and Miss Kathrine Coleman of Palm-
erston and the former's sister Reta,
visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
:\, W. McEwing last Friday.
The \Vhighnnt well to the' only, on
on the lino of the traeadian 1':teific
railway, tend that gives cert'aitt advatt-
teges in freight to local points. At
the three places we have about 40
teen etipluyed directly in connection
with the salt Ibusiuess, including those
engaged making the barrels, We
bought 5,000 cords of wood at 'Blyth
last year, and 2,000 cords at Wing -
ham. That gives a great deal of work
eutting,' learning. ,etc, Brussels is on
the outer limit of the deposit towards
the north,
"The great difficulty the Canadian
salt trade has to contend with is the
im'porta'tion df English salt, .It comes
over, as ballast and is then 'brought
to Toronto at $11 a car. The freight
from here to Montreal by the Grand
Trunk Is $36 a can There la no duty.
on the English coarse salt, 'beet there
is upon the table salt. We ship table
and dairy salt to the eastern prov-
inces. About two million bags are int-
ported from England every year. Our
production is about 300,000`barrels.
Competition'•h'as reduced our capital
60 per cent. in value, and of late years
it has not been a profitable business,
Frani 1878 to 1833 we had five years
of fine business. There is not as much•
salt used now as there was five yeas
ago on the land, The reason is, T
think, ibecause the farmers cannot af-
ford to buy it oe aocount of the poor
price they have been getting for their
stuff, We sell a couple of carloads a
month to •the chemical works at Lon-
don.
Peter McEwan says:—"In ,Seaforth
there is about' 200 feet like clay, and
in both Atitcbell and Dublin where we
should have struck the salt 'we came
on the sirbstiance like pipe -clay. There
was about the sabre thickness of it as
we get of the salt rock here. It wasi
very like blue clay, only ,there was e
difference in co er. I do not think
any experiments were made with it.
At about 1)200 or 1,400 feet we struck
a red or light 'brown shale which con-
tinued to the 'bottom, 2,000 feet; there
would be about 600' or 700 feet of
That is the deepest well in this part
of Canada, that I know of, The salt
ppears to play out between Seaforth
and Dublin. I drilled a well one and
a quarter miles' east of Seaforth and
got salt, but not in large quantity. At
Dublin we did not get any salt; there
was salt water, but nothing that could
becalled 1 'alt In 1872 at Bats -
1875, when we sisade about 60,000 bar-
rels a year here. 'Last year we made
10,000 barrels. The works are now
about shut down but not for the want
of a supply, far there Is plenty of
brine. We have abandoned .our well
here on account of the falling off in
quality. I do not know what it is that
is coining into bhe brine, 'but it in-
THE OLD SALT INDUSTRY.
A report of the Royal Commission
an the Mineral Resources of 'Ontario
issued in the year 1590, was recently
bund among some old books by a
resident of 'Seaforth and contains
much interesting information regard-
ing the production of salt which was a
flourishing industry of this district
for twenty years previous to that time.
!Reports made to the Commission by
salt manufacturers indicate that the
industry was on the decline in 1590,
bargely'because of market conditions.
creases the cost of produetio•n very
much; we think it is caused by the
size of the cavity and the distance the
water has to travel through other
rocks. Of bate we have made .only a
little for the retail trade here. The.
'barrel of salt weighs 280 lbs, net. The
cost of a barrel is about.20 cents; we
make our own. When the salt indus-
try started here first we ,paid 32 cents
for barrels. I€ we had to buy thein.
now they would be worth about 25
cents. When filled with salt we get
from 55 to 70 cents; thla't has been
the price for about three years M
think; it was 50 cents for a couple of
years before that, \,'e make table
salt at -Blyth, but not here. We have
only one pan here, 20 by 120 feet, It
is capable of snaking 1'50 barrels a
day, bhe quantity depending on the
amount of fuel used. We have been
using beach and maple at $3 a cord,
and ,soft wood at $125 and $1!50. The
brine is very strong, being full satur-
ation. We commenced at Blyth ten
years ago and ,struck salt at 1,190
feet; the formation is about the same
as it is here, and we are supposed to
be working in, a bed 90 feet thick. We
have two pans there, and a mill for
table and dairy salt; the pans are 24�
130. For grinding the table salt we
use steel Toilers. We make about
000 barrels a year of table and
dairy salt, put up in small bags which
are packed its barrels. The bags cost
from $1,30 to $2 the barrels. In bulk
that salt is sold at 85 cents a barrel.
Otir total production at Blyth runs
up to about 50;000 barrels a year. We
went there on account of cheaper
wood. Labor is about the same as
here, Cheaper fuel was the plain ob-
ject at that time, but now we find the
salt is purer there. At Wingham we
sank in May, 1886, and struck salt at
about 1,140 or 1,130 feet. We did not
drill that well ourselves, and do not
know what the bottom is like: It is
two utiles from the village and we
have to pipe the brine that distance.
Dr, Timothy Coleman:—"Our well
at Seaforth is about 1,120 feet deep.
The first 100 feet was through a loose
kind of limestone, hard, with soft
streaks. At 350 feet we . struck a
strong flow of fresh water which
rushed up• to within six or seven feet
of the surface. After going to about
450 feet the Guelph limestone is
struck. At 800 feet there is a kind of
rotten stone of a clay color; there is
about fifty er sixty feet, but about
midway is a layer of very hard stone
intervening. At 880 feet bhere is a
bed 01 clay, and after that it is lime-
stone down to the salt, at 1,020 feet,
There is a bed of salt at that depth of
seeen or eight feet. We contiued on
101 feet and stopped, as we were in
the rock salt and had all we wanted.
After coming to the first had of salt
t'-rrre ie. a layer .,f three of four feet of
porous rock,
I was the first to discover salt at
:Seaforth. We made salt about Christ-
mas, 1869, and before May, 1870, we
had two pans; a third one that we put
u.p got bunted. At that time the mar-
ket was better than at present. We
got $1 and $1.20 a barrel; now it is
50 and 55 cents, with the price of
wood gone up. The price of the bar-
rel is about 22 cents, we pay ?r/2 cents
for packing, and it takes about a cent's
worth of nails to a barrel, so that we
have about 30 cents for the salt. We
have two pans, 24 by 140 feet. The
capacity of a pan is about 100 barrels
a day. About two •million sacks of salt
conte over annually from England. I
contend that 'English salt should be
excluded; the demand then would
keep us all going. At present the total
amount produced .in Ontario is about
400,000 barrels. We could easily pro-
duce the total amount that is now im-
ported from Englancl as well, We
are driven out of the market so that
the fishermen in the eastern provinces
stay have free salt, and we cannot use
their coal. I do not think that is fair;
we should have 'free coal. We have
better salt than the Americans. Our
brine is the purest in the world, being
98 per cent. and the quantity here is
unlimited. With free trade we could
compete `with the Americans. The
American manufacturer are getting
60 or 70 cents a barrel. The best re-
medy at present would be to keep out
the English salt and give us our own
market."
William Grey --41I have been engag-
ed in nwnufa'cturiitg salt for about
seventeen years in Seaforth. We
have three wells, one here (Seaforth),
one at Wingham, and one at Blyth.
The one here was bored seventeen
years ago, the one at. Blyth ten years
ago and the one at Wingham two
years ago, Front the surface to the
bottom here is about 1,140 feet; there
was about 40 feet of loose material.
We did not keep a log of the well or
samples oft the drillings. Before get-
ring,in'i`e. the gait in all the wells we
about ot 30'feetkind
of shale shale;
and salt Mixed,
T think it is all the -sante bed of salt.
The train bed is 90 feet through, and
there are supposed to be beds below
that again, but we have not gone un-
der that bed here. At Clinton they
arc suppesrd to have gone through to
a second deposit, The mate bed
aee•ms to be 'thicker here and at Blybh
than anywhere else. At first, severe
teen years ago we trade here at the
,rte 35,000 barrels a year; tate
Imes 500, greatest activity was about 1874 and
MANLEY.
3Mr, John Murray is busy with a
gang of teen and teams grading the
county road on the Grey boundary,
which will be one of the leading high-
a-ays front Goderich in the near fu -
fere.
'Mr. 'Fred Eckert spent the week -
mg in Stratford and Buffalo,
\i W. Manley and sons Dan and
S',p.ien anti slaughter Bernice spent
'?t. week -end with '14're. Marticy's par-.
ere, adr. and Mrs C. Eckart.
Wad.t and For Sale Ade,
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N FLOUR MILLS CO.
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LIMITED
SEIWoRTH,, @n�xaRJ
WE ARE PAYING FOR GRAIN
Wheat Statadaxd ...... ...... $1,30 per Bus.
Oats, Standard or over 58 per Bus.
Barley, Malting Grade , . . , .. • • • • 72 per Bus.
These prices are for clean, dry grain delivered at the Mill
We will truck wheat on a mileage basis.
We are agents for the POOI,.
BRAN, in bags $34,00 per ton
SHORTS, in bags'• .. , , • , .. • , • • , . • $36,00 ,per ton
MIDDiLINGS,. in bags • , $44.00 per ton
These Shorts and Middlings are from Winter 'Wheat
PHONE 51
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feet. The first bed we estimate
M be 1S to 13 feet, and the lower bed
about 25 feet. There are Duty two
wells here, and the depth of the other
one is about the same as ours. I do
no think the other well has been
worked since the beginning of 1886.
The demand within the last two lar
three years is falling off. I think
there 'is a falling off in cans:me-don,
and there is also more imported.
'This yea •nty output has been
about 30 carloads a month. For nine
or twelve months before that we had
a good deal of trouble with out weld,
owing to the falling in of the roof;
we had to'take the tube up and had
a great deal of trouble in getting it
down again. As we have been work-
ing ,She well for about twenty years
we think we have a large lake below.
The roof had fallen and formed a
heap that obstructed- our tube, and
knowing the nature of the overlying
rock we conjectured the brine would
ca a rock s be more or less impure; so we bored
cels we went through similar strata, down past this obstruction on into the
and we got salt water and pumped second bed, which we knew by Dr.
4ittnt s report of At -trill's baring was
of exceptional purity; according to
his rep -ort it was the purest rock salt
known. We went into it about 25 feet
and ,stopped there bedause the boring
at Goderioh showed that to be about
the thickness of the_ second bed. ;We
were stilll„in salt when we stopped.
"By having an outer casing outside
our pump and realing on the ledge of
solid rock below the obstruction re-
ferred to above, we prevented any of
the impurities from getting into the
pump. But just as we got it in work-
ing order the casing slipped off the
ledge. We had great difficulty to get
it out again—it took us aborti seven
months—so that we were out of the
market from Septesnber till March.
"We get good brine now and make
good salt. My present output is
from 25,000 to 28,000 barrels a year.
In Former years I exceeded that.
"I have two pans, 80 or 90 feet long
by .1 or 40 wide. We generally keep
for three weeks; there wa•s some salt
made there, but it was considered a
failure, Another party drilled a well
et Wroxeter. I do not know much
about the log of that well, but -I know
they did not get Salt. After that an-
other man drilled a ,well three quar-
ters of a -anile south af- where 'we did
and. Within the corporation of Brus-
sels, and he got salt. .Th'et shows the
town to be on the edge of the salt'. bed.
The salt was got a little nearer the
sudface than at Seaforth.
F. C. Rogers of Brussels gives- the
following as wages: "We
,have about
15 hands: the man who attends the
pan gets $1.25 a day; the coopers, of
whom there are two, get 5% cenfs_a
barrel; the engine driver gets $1.50
a day and he also runs the dairy mill,”
John Ransford:—"I reside at Clin-
ton and am a salt manufacturer., Mybrother Richard commenced to bore
a"n- tt 1867. We first went down 1,-
17(1 feet from the surface; that is the
bottom of the fest bed. Since then about three or four inches of brine in
we have bored below' that, down to the pans. The pans have to be clean-
ed about once. every two weeks.
"We do .not pump all the 24 hours,
as we have tanks which hold the
brine required during the night. I
think there is less scaling, of thepans
since we have been pumping from bhe
new bed.
"We are under the impression that
Ibis bed extends into. Michigan as far
as Manistee. ITo .the east it has been
tapped at Sehfortb, but at Mitchell
they could not find it. I't has been
struck two miles this side of Dublin,
and that appears to be the eastern
limit of the bed, At Teeswater they
could not find it. I understand that
at Wingham alley bored and could
not find it; then they bored two miles
west, in ,a line between Brussels and
Kincardine, and there they found it.
"Speaking as a protectionist, I say
tho salt manufacturer of Canada
should be protected; he should have
the Dominion far his market. Prac-
tically, everything we use is protect-
ed up to the handle.; .bhe only thing we
can import free of duty is the fire
brick. English salt is brought over
as ballast 'anti is admitted' free. It is
brought to the west for leas than half
the 'rate we have to pay on salt going
east. 'I pay $211,60 a car of eighty
barrels from here to Toronto. The
Freight on .English salt From Montreal,
to. Toronto is $12.
-"I have not the least desire to see
salt taxed that is imported for the use
of fishermen, But as a matter of fact
it is not used for that purpose alone,
It comes to Toronto and en'tens large-
ly and principailyinto competition
with our band salt.
"And I have good reason to believe
too, that this' English salt is ground
in thlis country, put into small bags
and sold in competition with us as
dairy salt.
"Besides the coarse salt there is a
large quantity of fine salt sold under
different brands; whether that pays
duty I do tot know, but it comes in
and is sold, and from the amount
that is sold I dovibt whether it does
paylt of 10 There
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