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Ridge Lake by making several trips and lightening our canoes. From mile 74, 

 we moved camp along the line and brought supplies from Ridge River into the 

 line once a week. From Ridge Lake, where we left our freight canoes, we cut a 

 trail northeast and brought the balance of our supplies and a small canoe into 

 the line and moved everything along it. When we got to mile 110, we sent 

 seven men back to Ridge Lake, where they took the canoes back to Pagwa 

 River Station, following out the route we had used coming in. We shipped our 

 canoes to Mattice, where we brought supplies down the Missinaibi River to the 

 west boundary of the Township of Mahony. As this was late in the season, and 

 the water was low, we had to send one canoe back from the end of the Long 

 Rapids for the balance of our supplies. We moved camp south from mile 126 

 on the base line and brought enough supplies along the west boundary of Mahony 

 as we ran it north to take us across to where our base line crossed the Missinaibi 

 River. From the river, we made a trail southeast along the creek which crossed 

 our line near mile 140 and took sufficient supplies to take us across to near the 

 Mattagami River. When we had gotten to mile 150, we sent men back to take 

 our canoes down the Missinaibi and up the Mattagami to where our line would 

 cross. We then brought sufficient supplies down the new branch of the Temis- 

 kaming and Northern Ontario Railway, from Coral Rapids, to complete the line. 

 We brought part of these over on a trail, which we made to the Mattagami 

 River, and after getting the line across it, we moved our canoes over to the 

 railroad. We crossed the Abitibi River near where the Little Abitibi River 

 joins it. From the Abitibi east, we carried a small canoe to be used when 

 crossing lakes and at the French River. When we arrived at the French River 

 its was nearly dry, but evidences are that it could no doubt be used in the early 

 spring flood. No doubt O.L.S. Niven used this for moving his supplies when 

 he ran his meridian and made a full report on it. After completing the line 

 to be run this season, we walked back to the railroad and boarded a ballast 

 train for Coral Rapids. From here we took the Temiskaming and Northern 

 Ontario Railway to Cochrane and disbanded our party. 



The building of the railroads in recent years has altered the canoe routes a 

 great deal. The branch line to Smoky Falls on the Mattagami had made it 

 the main route to Moose factory, and now the production of the new line north 

 from Cochrane will alter everything. 



Game 



There is very little game in the country. Outside of the members of our 

 party who were bringing supplies along the larger river, only one man saw a 

 moose during the season. No caribou were seen at all. There were no signs 

 of fresh beaver work seen. 



Speckled trout abound in all the small creeks. We caught several in the 

 creeks to the east of Abitibi. The Onakawana River is supposed to have excellent 

 fishing in it. 



We sent in our canoes with the supplies as soon as the weather conditions 

 were favourable and took our party in as soon as they could return for us. In 

 this way we were able to get in about ten days before the flies started. We had 

 a lot of cloudy weather and showers nearly every day or night all season. We 

 had very hot weather and terrific thunder storms and several hail storms. The 

 last two weeks of August was wonderful weather. We had a larger party this 

 year than usual and this enabled us to make better time by being able to keep 

 the camp up when we had light cutting. We had our heaviest cutting during 



