DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND FORESTS FOR 1931 75 



The lines were measured twice, the first measurement being made with a 

 tape graduated in chains and links and the check measurement was made with 

 a tape graduated in feet and tenths. Though some of the country was parti- 

 cularly rough the measurements checked very well. The measurement in feet 

 will be found noted on each page of the notes either opposite the mile points or 

 triangulation points. In obtaining distances across water areas two triangles 

 were used as instructed. It was necessary to resort to a system of triangles in 

 two cases, the first being on page 4 of the field notes and second being on Cygnet 

 Lake on pages 86, 87 and 88 of the notes. 



Wooden posts were planted and marked according to your instructions. 

 In only one case was it necessary to dig pits and erect mounds owing to no 

 rocks being available. Standard iron posts and standard rock posts were used 

 to mark or witness the township corners and the three-mile points. Where iron 

 posts were used pits were dug and mounds erected and where rock posts were 

 used stone mounds in the shape of pyramids were built. In addition to the 

 above-mentioned points, rock posts were planted at four (4) miles and thirty-five 

 (35) chains and twenty-eight and four-tenths (28.4) links north of the northwest 

 angle of the Township of Malachi and at one (1) mile and thirty-four (34) chains 

 and twenty (20) links east of the northwest angle of the Township of Rudd. 

 The markings on all iron posts and rock pots will be found indicated in the notes. 



Survey Lines 



The outlines of the Townships of Rice, Malachi and Pelican were easily 

 picked up. 



The point of intersection of the north boundary of the Township of Noyon 

 with the inter-provincial boundary was in a burned area and it was necessary 

 to retrace a portion of this boundary in order to locate the 42nd mile post to 

 which a tie was made. It was also difficult to locate the 24th mile post of the 

 inter-provincial boundary as the country was burned over when that boundary 

 was run and there has been no retracement survey. 



Ties were made to many of the mining locations around Lake of the Woods 

 and Shoal Lake and these will be found on several pages of the notes. 



A tie was made to a post found on an island in Cygnet Lake. This island 

 is about two miles south of the northeast angle of the Township of Rudd and 

 the post was marked 1 No. 12. We had no advice of a survey in this vicinity 

 and the post may have been planted on some control survey. 



Though we had no notes of the lines of the Dominion Lands System of 

 Surveys which were projected into Ontario, we made a careful search for evidence 

 of these lines but were only successful in picking up one tree which was blazed 

 on four sides and marked Y /i on eacn side and which appeared to be one of the 

 quarter section posts of the system. This was found in the first mile east from 

 the southwest angle of the Township of Forgie. We do not believe that any of 

 the other lines will be found without a great amount of retracement work as the 

 points where they would intersect our lines have been burned bare since the 

 original line was run. 



Ties were made to O.L.S. Kenny's control traverse of Lake of the Woods 

 and Shoal Lake. These were made in Clearwater Bay, Rush Bay (two ties), 

 Echo Bay, Portage Bay and Mountain Bay of Lake of the Woods and in Shoal 

 Lake Narrows and Carl Bay of Shoal Lake. 



The survey for the Kenora-Winnipeg Highway was tied in on the east 

 boundary of the Township of Forgie. 



