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soon after the C.P.R. was built that they were found along the tracks living 

 on spilt grain as far east as Fort William. They were recorded at Sault Ste. 

 Marie in 1894 and in the Abitibi a few years ago. 



Minerals 



No great extent of rock outcrop occurs except at Mileage 205 to 208. There 

 the line crosses a ridge or series of low rounded hills running in an easterly and 

 westerly direction. They have been burnt over years ago and are almost bare 

 on the tops, but the depressions and gullies are muskeg and timber. The rock 

 is mostly granitic. The height of land at about Mile 172 is a low ridge 

 with some exposed rock in places. These rocks are basic and dark coloured. 

 At about Mile 158 some exposures were seen and here occur the typically 

 spheroidal Keewatin. Only one or two small quartz stringers were seen any- 

 where. In two places on the line the compass was deflected a few degrees from 

 the normal declination. 



Retracement 



As we had a considerable cache of provisions on the Turgeon on our way 

 home we decided to use them in retracing part of the boundary from Mile 140 

 south. This part had been run in 1906 and we had found it in places very 

 much obliterated by new growth. We retraced back to Mile 129. In alder 

 swamps particularly the old line was so overgrown that the traveller in the 

 bush would cross right over it without seeing it. In some places the line was 

 still quite open. Old cuttings and stumps, blazes, posts and bearing trees were 

 readily found when looked for. The iron posts were all found in place and well 

 marked, the wooden posts were still well shaped and well marked though generally 

 small and now rotten. 



The line was opened out in the same manner as we had done the new part 

 and blazed, care being taken not to destroy the old blazes. The retracement 

 was done by making a traverse of the line of posts, measuring the offsets to the 

 posts when the stations did not coincide with them. The line was chained and 

 check chained. The main chainage only was recorded in the notes as the 

 distance between the posts as found on the ground. 



The iron posts were not disturbed. The wooden posts were pulled up and 

 replaced in exactly the same position by new six-inch posts, marked the same as in 

 our original survey. The old wooden post was placed alongside and leaning 

 against the new one. Old posts at river banks were found as shown in the notes, 

 were noted but were not replaced. Pits and mounds were made at each mile as 

 in our original survey and aluminum plates placed at mile posts and crossings. 



From Mile 129 to 131 M.+40, the line cuts across a very fine strip of timber, 

 which follows the Turgeon River. This timber consists of spruce mainly, up to 

 twenty inches; some very fine jack pine up to twenty inches around 130 M.+40; 

 with some very fine poplar, balsam and birch along the river. The Turgeon 

 River has fine pulpwood and timber all along its banks. 



Appendix No. 22 



Extract from report and field notes of Township Outlines in the District of 

 Kenora, by Phillips & Benner, O.L.S., 1930. 



The lines were well opened up and blazed in the usual manner. As the 

 greater part of the area is covered with a growth of coniferous trees the lines 

 should be easily visible by those engaged in aerial photography. 



