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Timber. 



Timber suitable for saw-mill use, in these townships, is confined to the 

 banks of the rivers and larger creeks, spruce to the diameter of about twenty 

 inches being noted by us. Spruce of pulpwood size borders all the creeks, 

 but between water courses the timber growth is stunted and of no commercial 

 value. Open muskeg such as found by us last year south of the Missinaibi 

 River, was crossed at only one point, a stretch a mile wide immediately north 

 of the Moose River being encountered on the west boundary of the Township 

 of Canfield. Along the northerly five and a half miles of the west boundary 

 of Sanderson, our line crossed an extensive swamp or semi-muskeg. This 

 area is probably slightly higher than the adjoining land, as the Cheepash 

 River swings well to the north around it, and our line crossed no water courses 

 of any kind. The east boundary of the township, however, intersected several 

 creeks, which, no doubt, have their source in the swamp. One rather striking 

 feature of the swamp was that the growth was exclusively tamarac, not a 

 spruce tree being cut in the northerly five miles of the line. 



In general, the forest growth was considerably denser than that found 

 last season south of the Missinaibi River. 



Fish and Game. 



Most of the smaller streams and creeks seem to be well supplied with 

 brook trout, although the members of the party did not test them out during 

 the survey. Pickerel were caught by us in the Cheepash River. As reported 

 last year, in speaking of the country immediately south of this, we saw few 

 signs of moose or other four footed game, but partridge and prairie chicken 

 were reasonably plentiful. 



Minerals. 



The only rock seen during the progress of the survey was a gypsum deposit 

 along the Cheepash River. The gypsum beds were exposed to a height of 

 about ten feet above the water at. the point where our line (the west boundary 

 of Maher) crossed the river, and had clay overburden of about fifteen feet. 



Appendix No. 21+. 



Report and Field Notes of the survey of the Re-establishment of Township 

 Lines at their intersection with C.P.R. Districts of Algoma and Thunder 

 Bay, 1932, Elihu Stewart, O.L.S. 



I have the honour, in accordance with your instructions dated the six- 

 teenth of May, 1932, to submit my report on the re-establishment of certain 

 township boundaries along the line of the Canadian Pacific Railway in the 

 Districts of Algoma and Thunder Bay and extending from a point between 

 Townships 36 and 37 near Windermere Lake to Nipigon River. This work 

 was considered necessary owing to the fact that the original posts as well 

 as certain cut and blazed lines had, in great measure been destroyed by the 

 numerous fires that had swept over the country during a period of upwards 

 of forty years. 



