CANADIAN OIL BOOM.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 154, 30 June 1914, Page 2

CANADIAN OIL BOOM.

INVKTOES GON'RiJAH. 'Ilir X.M.>. Mn.r.niu. ulviWi arrived in | port this mornili". ■bmijrht news of a. : grjpintiu oil bm>;n :n \V«rtcrn Cinada. Uie latest iri-t-ricii-qiiink scheme of jhe •Taimcks" iiavinp rridcirliy replaced ' tllfl ct.erlul.l ri-al .-.-t.ltc fad. "\ :l IT■inarkable coim-id-once .i low weeks? tn'.foro J tlie nun* wat Ita/bed over the prairins. I t.but a bifr tsirike h.u\ bveu made in t!al«n.ry. Alberta, lite American Imperial , Oil Company decided, .lo erect -,l mum- ■ •moth oil refinery -\i I'ort Moody, at the I. Hi-ad erf Durrani inlet. Tin-' work of; pnnetTurtion mvpe^itat»nl the employ- , j ire.nt if liirpe jranprs of men. aiul iml . ' loitfj after ilie initial <=tapi« worn p.ip-ed the oil boom wa<* in fall sw-inp. A well-known real estate man from Vancouver i- .'i.ut-l>ority for "the statement i ihai western citir* have "wimp timkI '* ■ s'uwc- t'bt» ririko. miniorOile companies j I bavins been forrm-d in all the lar'e.: I woslem cities to exploit the boom. Bvery | ! iirvrsrtor witli »• "few (loUiim to ppend H taJcinjr a chamr. in nil. in *pite of t<V> \va.niin;rs from wiser circipw tlra-! th« boom it bound to '"hurst. Oil U said lo !bo flowing in α-pparently inexhaustible ■ quantitie*. and thr> "~-lisirk'' h hard at j j work in boVtcring up the latest sensa- I tion.