City of London, Ontaro, CanadaThe pioneer period and the London of to-day . XO. 2 FIRE STATION. NO. 3 FIRE STATION. Saunby. Board of Examiners—C. B. Hunt,W. J. Saunby, J. D. Saunby, John Sutherland,and John S. Pearce. Western Fair Repre-sentatives—A. B. Greer, J. W. Little, T. , W. J. Reid, A. M. Smart, and L. Macintosh. Railway and Municipal—A. M. Smart, George McCormick, C. S. Hy-man, J. H. Ginge, J. W. Little, John Camp-bell, C. W. Leonard, L. H. Ingram, A. , John Bowman, John Labatt, A. , J. R. Minhinnick, Sir John Carling, T. clown to test the truth of the th
City of London, Ontaro, CanadaThe pioneer period and the London of to-day . XO. 2 FIRE STATION. NO. 3 FIRE STATION. Saunby. Board of Examiners—C. B. Hunt,W. J. Saunby, J. D. Saunby, John Sutherland,and John S. Pearce. Western Fair Repre-sentatives—A. B. Greer, J. W. Little, T. , W. J. Reid, A. M. Smart, and L. Macintosh. Railway and Municipal—A. M. Smart, George McCormick, C. S. Hy-man, J. H. Ginge, J. W. Little, John Camp-bell, C. W. Leonard, L. H. Ingram, A. , John Bowman, John Labatt, A. , J. R. Minhinnick, Sir John Carling, T. clown to test the truth of the theory. One ofthese derricks still stands at the foot of Dun-das street. The White Sulphur Springs werestruck while boring for oil, and have flowedcontinuously ever since. It soon became appar-ent that oil was not to be had, and the bor-ings were gradually abandoned, though insome cases the derricks remained till they fellto pieces of their own accord or were tornapart for fuel. In this connection, in 1865,an oily sharper named Hicks undertook a 114 CITY OF confidence game. He proposed to sink a wellat the foot of the spur which forms the north-east angle of the boundaryof what is now Woodlandcemetery, then a farm. Hehad interested a number ofsanguine local capitalists, aderrick was erected andboring indulged in, till sud-denly it was announcedthat oil had been enough, there it was,oozing from the hole andfloating down the rivuletto the river. The excite-ment that ensued causedordinarily well-balancedheads to become unhinged,and the wildest dreams ofwealth were indulged castles in Spain thatwere erected would havekept busy a battalion ofarchitects. Farmers in theneighborhood refused fab-ulous ofEers for bondingprivileges, and the Col. Sellers of the day could scarcely find enoughfigures in the multiplication table to calculate the m i1 -lions thatwere to bemade. Butsic transitgloria olea!It all fad-e d intono th ing-ness, andwas as ifit had nev-e
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