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WELLAND NEWS
[Welland Tribune, 22 October 1897]
ANOTHER gas well is talked of in Welland town. Two capitalists are willing to each take one-third the necessary stock, and if the third man is forthcoming it is a go. It is understood wells can be sunk now for about one-half the cost of those previously put down here. It may not be generally known but is nevertheless a fact, that gas is still escaping from the well first put down here some five years ago, and in sufficient quantity that had the well been located nearer the town, (to obviate considerable piping, it would pay a good interest on the sum it would cost to sink a well at the present time.
The town bell gives us plenty of music nowadays.
THE fairs are over and still the rain refuses to come. The frog ponds are not yet filled for the winter campaign.
BROWN BROS. are fitting up their steam engine and apparatus to run their mill during the time the raceway is unwatered.
HARRY J. GIBSON has sold his property (next to Tribune office) to J.E. Whalley. The grocery and restaurant business is still for sale.
THE CANADIAN underwriters are anxiously enquiring about our fire protection, having heard “through the local papers” that the water supply is inefficient. The mayor instructed the clerk to reply that an 80 h,p. engine and two 40 h.p. boilers would be in working order in about three weeks, and that in the meantime the fire engine was in good working order. Also, that the automatic fire alarm system would be completed early next week.
MR. RAMEY’S testimony: Casper Ramey, our well-known bailiff, who was a victim to rheumatism, got a box of “Our Native Herbs” from Mr. Gross, the local agent, and meeting Mr. G. the other day he said: “Gross, I’m a new man; the pains have all left me.” Mr. Ramey’s testimony to the efficacy of “Our Native Herbs” was spontaneous and unsolicited.
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