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Appendix No. 21. 

 Re-Survey of the Township of O'Brien, District of Algoma. 



Paery Sound, February 21st, 1918. . . 



Sir, — I have the honour to submit the following report on the re-survey of the 

 Township of O'Brien, in accordance with your instructions, dated August 30th, 

 1917. 



This township was surveyed under the nine-mile system, by O.L.S. Fullerton, 

 1913, and his report, dated April 11th, 1914, which is now on file in your Depart- 

 ment, so fully describes the township that it is not necessary for me to go into it 

 in detail, he having run all the side lines and concession lines would have a better 

 opportunity of reporting on the natural resources of this township than I have, 

 seeing that I only ran certain concession lines. Suffice it to say that I consider 

 this township the best I have yet seen in Northern Ontario. 



The experimental farm on the west side of the Kapuskasing Eiver, adjoining 

 the Transcontinental Railway, fully demonstrates the splendid quality of the soil 

 for agricultural purposes. A fair sized town is in the making on the east side of 

 the Kapuskasing River, adjacent to the railway, for the housing of returned 

 soldiers, who were busily engaged in preparing land for settlement. 



Practically all of the larger timber has been removed for railway and con- 

 struction purposes, the Kapuskasing and Woman Rivers affording convenient 

 means of getting this timber to the railroad. "What is now standing is suitable 

 for pulpwood and fuel only. That suitable for pulpwood I found mainly in the 

 north and south portions of the township, that in the centre of the town being 

 mainly smaller timber from three to six inches in diameter. 



My field notes are prepared from survey made by me of the lines between 

 Concessions 2 and 3, 4 and 5, 8 and 9, 10 and 11, 14 and 15, 16 and 17, and the 

 field notes of Concession 6 and 7, 12 and 13, are copied from those of Mr. Fuller- 

 ton's, the only alterations I had to make being the changing of the markings of the 

 posts due to the new numbers of the concession lines. The field notes I am re- 

 turning of the side lines have been compiled from Mr. Fullerton's field notes, the 

 depths of the concessions being obtained by chaining, from the intersection of the 

 concession lines run by me with the side lines run by Mr. Fullerton, to the nearest 

 post planted by him. The blank lines between Concessions 3 and 4, Concessions 

 9 and 10, and Concessions 15 and 16, were run in the original survey by Mr. 

 Fullerton as concession lines between Concessions 2 and 3, 6 and 7, 10 and 11 

 respectively, and on these lines I destroyed his posts, but they now mark the blank 

 lines between the concessions above enumerated, posts being planted by me at their 

 intersection with the side lines. Posts along the Transcontinental Railway planted 

 by Mr. Fullerton from Lots 1 to 12 inclusive were destroyed by me, as this part 

 of the railway is not now the front of a concession. 



A sufficient number of observations were taken to check the bearings of the 

 lines, and the field notes of the lines run by me show the results of the survey in 

 detail. The plan accompanying this report has been compiled from my survey notes 

 and from Mr. Fullerton's plan and field notes. 



Game does not appear to be very plentiful. Moose trails were noticed in the 

 north-east corner of the township around Lily Lake. The only evidence of fur- 



