IN THE COUNTY OF WATERLOO                              59


cession; that he desired also to erect two more churches for Germans; that any remittance would be welcome and used as directed.  Further, that Munich had already contributed $600.00; with the money received from Mr. Leopold L., a personal lay friend, he had finished two churches for the Germans; that much had to be done in New Germany to furnish the church there; that he had received through the Archbishop of Cincinnati £74=$296, from Munich for the Germans here and in Buffalo.
    This letter seems to prove that it was not the local difficulties that caused the Jesuits' withdrawal from New Germany, but that it was caused through the scarcity of priests elsewhere.  The priests of New Germany were moved to Guelph a little later, January 28th, 1852, because Guelph was more important and better located as a centre to attend the Missions northward through Wellington, Grey and Bruce.  There the priests were needed more urgently while the country was filling up rapidly with many Catholics.
    This was the period of the "Saugeen fever," during which so many small




farmers and mechanics moved out of the County to secure more land for themselves and their children.
    In a letter to a personal friend and benefactor in Styria, written towards the end of November, 1851, Father Holzer states that he was in Galt where he had a meeting for the purpose of securing a church site which he hoped to get soon.  He gave the first subscription of $18, and then started to collect from house to house for this purpose.  It took several years to get the site because the lot owners would not sell land for a Catholic church.
    Father Holzer also states in one of his letters that Bishop De Charbonnel had been fully six weeks with him, visiting all their Missions for confirmation in 1851.
    Bishop Power had already recommended the Jesuits on their first arrival here to open a College.  This they had attempted first at St. Agatha, then at New Germany, and finally in Guelph.  After a few years' trial at Guelph they gave up the attempt, likely for want of the necessary support from the public and the absence of professors.
    At New Germany they had begun the erection of a building for College purposes, but before it was half completed they abandoned the Mission, sold the building to Mr. M. Fehrenbach, who moved it on his farm and turned it into a farmhouse that is still in good condition.  The old cause of dispute be-

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