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The more remunerative crops of this district are hay, clover seed, and 

 potatoes. Some excellent crops of hay were observed on Upsala farms. 



Timber 



The southerly portion of Joynt has a very heavy stand of spruce of a suitable 

 size for pulpwood. The north-eastern portion has some considerable stands of 

 poplar and birch suitable for lumber, also several stands of spruce of pulpwood 

 size. The greater part of Langworthy Township has been burned over years 

 ago, and partially reburnt by the fires this summer. The only heavy stand of 

 spruce is along the northern boundary of the third concession. The hills which 

 have not been burnt over in most cases have a stand of jack pine, and in all the 

 swamps are found scattered balsam and dry tamarac. 



Geology 



There are very few rock exposures in either townships, but those observed 

 were found to be of Dioritic Granite. Some of the glacial boulders in the western 

 part of Langworthy Township were as large as fifteen feet in diameter. 



Streams and Lakes 



Lac des Mille Lacs and Little Jackfish are the only lakes of any account. 

 There are several other small lakes throughout the townships. The Little Savanne 

 River, McKay's Creek and Spruce Creek all drain into Lac des Mille Lacs, and 

 are the only creeks of mentionable size. Owing to the dry season, the lakes 

 were at a very low level, and numerous small creeks were dried up. 



Game 



Bear, moose and deer were plentiful. Several colonies of beaver were noticed 

 on some of the small lakes. Lac des Mille Lacs and Little Jackfish Lake yielded 

 good catches of pike and pickerel. 



During the course of the survey, several prospective settlers visited the 

 party and were anxious to ascertain when the townships would be thrown open 

 for settlement, so that it would seem that no difficulty would be had in this 

 regard. The survey having been completed the party returned to town on the 

 8th day of August. 



Enclosed herewith, together with my report, is a plan on mounted linen 

 of the Townships of Joynt and Langsworthy, timber plan showing the resources 

 in timber, field notes, observations, chain bearers' oaths, etc., and my account 

 ; n triplicate, all of which I trust will be found correct. 



