150 REPORT OF THE No. 3 



In order to ensure preservation of the survey records, many of which are 

 over 100 years' old and fast deteriorating with age, plans are being formulated 

 for the treatment of original maps by a chemical process and the services of a 

 bookbinder were obtained with the work of reparing and recovering all field 

 note books and other volumes commenced in the latter part of January, 1947. 

 Under this plan, the microfilming of all of the original survey records was also 

 commenced in the latter part of January. By the end of this fiscal year, 1881 

 field note books and 94 other volumes representing a total of 259,000 pages had 

 been microfilmed. For the present, it is planned to continue to use the original 

 records and have the microfilmed negatives available for reproduction purposes 

 in the event of the original records becoming indistinguishable with age. 



It is planned to re-index and catalogue all of these records as time permits. 

 In this connection the only progress made during this fiscal year was on the re- 

 indexing of the field note books and the separation of all municipal survey 

 records from the Crown Land Surve\s. Plans only were formulated on the card 

 index s\'stem for the re-indexing and cataloguing. 



Photostating 



In Xovember, 1946, the Photostat Section was transferred from the 

 Aerial Survey Section to the Ground Surveys under the supervision of the Map 

 Ofiice, which is the central point for the ordering of all photostatic material for 

 this Department. A notable item was the supplying of some 25,000 photostatic 

 copies of pages of field notes for the aerial mapping portion of the Forest Resources 

 Inventory Programme. 



The photostat service is available to other Departments of the Government, 

 insofar as the cop\'ing of their records is concerned, at the prescribed rates. 

 This service extends also to Commissions of the Government and the public 

 for copies of records held in this Department and work pertaining thereto. 



It is estimated that it costs 15c to produce one square foot of photostat 

 copy. Some 45,000 square feet of photostat paper was used during the fiscal 

 year. The following is the approximate square footage of photostatic paper 

 used for Departmental Divisions and District Offices, other than this Division, 

 during the year: — 



Divisions 



Accounts 130 



Forest Protection 110 



Land & Recreational Areas 310 



Law 340 



Main Office 120 



Operation & Personnel 1,200 



Reforestation 70 



Research 210 



Timber Management 2,000 



Forest Resources Inventor\- 16,480 



Fish & Wildlife '. 30 



Total 21,000 



—or 461^% of the Total 



