City of London, Ontaro, CanadaThe pioneer period and the London of to-day . following year afiirther sum of $30,000 was granted. OnOctober 2, 1856, the road was opened. Thehistory of the road was commonplace anduneventful till 1872, when the need of repairsto the roadbed and of additions to the rollingstock became so apparent that something hadto be done, and in that year the road was Western, it was not renewed, and after agood deal of negotiation, during which Lon-don bought the interest of St. Thomas in theroad, the lease passed into the hands of theLake Erie and Detroit River Railroad, whi
City of London, Ontaro, CanadaThe pioneer period and the London of to-day . following year afiirther sum of $30,000 was granted. OnOctober 2, 1856, the road was opened. Thehistory of the road was commonplace anduneventful till 1872, when the need of repairsto the roadbed and of additions to the rollingstock became so apparent that something hadto be done, and in that year the road was Western, it was not renewed, and after agood deal of negotiation, during which Lon-don bought the interest of St. Thomas in theroad, the lease passed into the hands of theLake Erie and Detroit River Railroad, whichnow operates it. Of the original incorpora-tors of the company but one is alive — Free-man Talbot. The others were E. JonesParke, Murray Anderson, G. W. Boggs, W. , G. R. Williams, Robert Thomson, Higman, J. M. Batt, Boyce Thomson,Lawrence Lawrason, Lionel Ridout, S. , Elijah Leonard, Wm. Smith, , E. W. Hyman, Thomas C. Dixon,Alex. Anderson, Thomas Carling, EdwardAdams, Samuel Feters, John K. Labatt,Wm. Barker, Daniel Harvey, Murdoch Mc-. VIEW, LOOKING EAST, FROM SPRINGBANK. leased to the Great Western for a period oftwenty years. This course had been mootedfive years previously, in 1867, when the re-turns showed that the earnings of the roadfor the year had been $42,, an increasefor the year of $3, The MichiganCentral Railroad was given running powersover the road north of St. Thomas in 1886,and still retains this privilege. On the lapse,by effluxion of time, of the lease to the Great Kenzie, Crowell Wilson, and Cyrenius It is not generally known that, bar-ring a few short lines without passengertraffic, which operate between mines and theseaboard, the proportion of earnings to work-ing expenses, and the earnings per train mile,are greater on the Fort Stanley than on anyother railroad in Canada. In 1870 the proj-ect of the London, Huron and Bruce Rail-road was first publicly mooted, and in 1871 120 CITY OF LONDON, the citi
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