TOTAL — — y3%^7 



Six thousand, two hundred and eighty letters covering requests 

 for maps and survey records v/ere handled during the year© This was an in- 

 crease of approximately 800 and is exclusive of Departmental or District 

 Office requests. Direct sales totalled 5,950 showing a marked increase, 

 A policy of payment in advance was adopted and this eliminated Tnflirjng jj;x- 

 voices for small amounts. An electric cash register was installed and much 

 of the clerical work has been eliminated. 



Photostat paper used increased by 19% to a total of 55,125 square 

 feet. Included in this are some 5,000 card references to surveyors' letters 

 for filing in the new survey record catalogue; 300 photostatic copies of 

 quarter session road descriptions and 175 of the very old field note books, 

 comprising approximately 22,000 pages. This completes the photostating of 

 the very old field note books which was commenced in 1951 and which photo- 

 static copies of field notes will now be used for reproduction purposes to 

 save handling the originals. 



An amount of 210,162 square feet of sensitized paper and linen 

 was used in the reproduction of various tracings of topographic maps, town- 

 ship prints, miscellaneous survey plans and Georgian Bay island map sheets 

 by the Dry Process Printing method. This is an increase of 83^ of that 

 used last year. This lcu:ge increase in reproductions is due mainly to 

 large-scaled activity in hydro, highway, summer resort and other private 

 surveys, as well as that many of the District Offices of this Department 

 had produced tracings on the sccLLes of one, two or four miles to the inch 

 of their administrative districts for purposes of forest protection, game 

 euid fish administration and sale to the public. These sectional tracings 

 were reduced photographically from original hand-drawn maps on the scale 

 of one mile to the inch and, in most cases, made by the "Litholine'* process 



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