100 REPORT OF THE No. 3 



Nipigon Straits and Point Porphyry including the westerly part of St. Ignace 

 Island, and the other showing the remainder of St. Ignace Island, Simpson 

 and Salter Islands and other smaller islands adjacent. 



Appendix No. 35 



Extract from report of survey of Townships of Joynt and Langworthy, District 

 of Thunder Bay, by Roy S. Kirkup, O.L.S., 1930. 



The Township of Joynt was outlined in 1925 by Lang and Ross, the lines 

 of which were found to be well opened out, with very little underbrush, except 

 on the north boundary. On the north boundary it was necessary to spend 

 several days cleaning out the underbrush, on account of the second growth and 

 in order to obtain good chainage. Lac des Mille Lacs intrudes into the south- 

 east corner of this Township, cutting out the greater parts of Lots 1, 2 and 3 

 in the First Concession. The Canadian Pacific Railway traverses the Township 

 in a north-westerly direction, also cutting out a considerable acreage in the 

 Township. Adjacent to the southerly limit of the Canadian Pacific Railway, 

 what appears to be a right of way for a road has been cut out, and this is shown 

 wherever we crossed it in the field notes. I presume that this would be a link 

 in the trans-Canada highway scheme. 



We then proceeded to lay out the south half of the Township of Lang- 

 worthy, and in due course this was accomplished. Several small lakes were 

 encountered throughout both townships and notes of the traverses of the same 

 will be found accompanying this report. Two Cooke transits were used through- 

 out the survey, and two tapes, one five chains and one two chains. We found the 

 five chain tape to work out very well when check chaining, on account of the 

 nature of the ground, which was fairly level throughout. Chainages on hills 

 were reduced to the horizontal by the Abney Clinometer. The base lines, of 

 course, were double chained, in accordance with your instructions. Observations 

 were taken before starting the survey and throughout the progress of the survey, 

 and these will be found tabulated with this report. 



Iron posts, pits and mounds were placed at the points indicated on the 

 plan accompanying the instructions with one or two exceptions, i.e., when we 

 hit an iron post or within a short distance of where one was planted on the 

 boundary lines. 



We had some little difficulty at times to locate the post on the East Boundary 

 of Upsala, and as instructed we deducted the width of the concessions at that 

 end by our ties to posts. These chainages do not agree by a considerable distance 

 in some instances with what our chainages produced would be. However, I 

 have shown them in brackets on the plan and used these distances in the calcu- 

 lation of acreage on these lots. 



Soil 



The first three concessions of Joynt Township are low lying, and except 

 for an occasional ridge, do not promise to be of much importance agriculturally. 

 Concessions four to six in the greater part are suitable for agricultural purposes, 

 the ridges being covered with a light loam. The valleys have a moss covered 

 clay soil. 



Practically all of Langworthy Township is suitable for agricultural purposes, 

 the soil being the same as that of the northern portion of Joynt. 



