No. 3 



Report of the Department of Lands and Forests for 1950 



A thin photostatic paper from which ozalid prints can be made was tried out 

 this year with considerable success. By this method, the cost of reproductions in 

 quantity was kept to a minimum. 



Printing and Transparent 

 Linen Reproductions 



Paper and contact photographic linen reproductions of survey plans and other 

 matters shows an increase in the quantity used this year. 92.700 square feet of sen- 

 sitized paper or linen was consumed. 



Survey Records 



^Microfilming of the original survey records was resumed this year and in this 

 connection, 138.000 plans, pages of field notes and survey records were filmed. 



2.600 plans were numbered consecutively in preparation of the cataloguing 

 of all survey records. 



The work of repairing and rebinding the original survey field notes and other 

 volumes was continued. 



Field Survey Party Equipment and Supply 



The equipping and supplying of an eighteen-man baseline survey party, operat- 

 ing in the field, as well as for smaller summer resort parties, and survey inspection 

 work, was taken care of during the year. 



The truck which was acquired last year and outfitted as a mobile survey 

 unit, covered 11.000 miles. 



L. to R.: — Regional Forester K. Acheson, District Foresters W. E. Steele and A. B. Wheatley and 

 Regional Foresters E. L. Ward and P. McEwen, listen attentively as operator G. Copping explains 

 the use of the huge enlarger used by the Division of Surveys and Engiiteering. 



