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All payments were made from the Chicoutimi office, no time or 

 supply bill being honored unless countersigned by a chief of party. 

 For time slips a printed, non-negotiable form, showing the 

 payee's name, time, and amount due less credits was used ; this at 

 the same time constituted a receipt to be signed by the payee. 

 Inventory and requisition sheets were furnished the men in 

 charge, on which they listed all supplies and outfit taken, received 

 or returned. By this method a fairly accurate check was obtained 

 on purchases. Moreover a ledger account of articles against each 

 crew was possible, whereby the Chicoutimi office was enabled to 

 locate and tell the number of all articles in the field ; credit was 

 given on this account as articles were returned, and if not re- 

 turned the articles were charged against the loser. 



The magnetic needle answered our purpose well (barring 

 scattered local attraction) for the surveys. We found the most 

 expeditious method of making traverses to be with transit and 

 stadia, employing two rodmen. 



While the strip system of estimating gave satisfactory results, 

 we should recommend hereafter the evenly distributed sample 

 plat, as being less cumbersome, allowing more time for looking 

 up bunches of timber and topographical details, and permitting 

 less opportunity for errors in acreage measured. In our strips we 

 used the ordinary four men crew, taking topography at the same 

 time as estimates. The aneroid barometer, checked by level lines, 

 gave the contours, a fifty foot interval being employed. 



Naturally with a new country, a comparatively large crew, and 

 necessary haste in the completion of the work, a certain amount 

 of waste, both in effort and expenditure was made. The survey, 

 as a whole, confirmed and taught several things, namely: 



(i) Experienced men to take charge of all field parties, on a 

 survey covering large areas, where immediate supervision cannot 

 be had, are an absolute necessity. 



(2) The smaller the crew and the longer the time taken, the 

 better and cheaper will be the work. 



(3) Country far from the base of supplies, especially where 

 canoeable streams are few, will best be attacked in winter. 



*The men who had charge of the three parties of this survey were 

 K. McR. Clark, of Boston, Mass., James A. Conners. of Old Town, Me., 

 and O. A. Wakefield, of Andover, Me. L. J. Freedman, of Houlton, Me., 

 handled the office. 



