DEPARTMENT OF LANDS AND FORESTS FOR 1933 81 



Appendix No. 25 



The Report and Field Notes of the survey of the Township of Horden, Dis- 

 trict of Cochrane, dated 1932, surveyed by E. L. Moore, O.L.S. 



North Bay, Ontario, 



January 11th, 1933. 



The Honourable, The Minister of Lands and Forests, 

 Toronto, Ontario. 



Sir: 



I beg to report on the survey of the Township of Horden in the District 

 of Cochrane which I have performed under authority of instructions issued 

 from your Department dated April 11th, 1932. 



The outlines of this Township were run this season by O.L.S. Sutcliffe, 

 consequently I did not commence the field work of the survey until July 26th 

 when I reached the scene with my party, got an astronomical observation and 

 prepared to start the actual running of the lines on the following day. 



This Township was laid out into lots of 150 acres or thereabouts as far 

 as it was practical to do so, but as the Moose River forms the southeast bound- 

 ary of this township and as the Temiskaming and Northern Ontario Railway 

 run diagonally through it, there are necessarily many irregular or broken lots. 



Lines were run in the centre of the road allowances between alternate 

 concessions namely: between concessions II and III, IV and V, VI and VII, 

 VIII and IX, and X and XI. These were run as chords of parallels of latitude 

 and at right angles with the meridian passing through the centre of the Town- 

 ship or, in other words, a meridian four and a half (4^) miles east of the west 

 boundary. Side lines were also run in the centre of the road allowances between 

 lots 24 and 25, 18 and 19, 12 and 13, and 6 and 7 and these lines were run as 

 true meridians. 



I will not go into detail as to the order in which these lines were run, suffice 

 it to state that they were all run in the order and direction as set out in my 

 instructions. 



Posts of the most durable wood obtainable and of the prescribed size and 

 shape were planted at the front angles of the various lots and on the survey 

 lines opposite these angles also at the intersection of lines. These were all 

 marked by cutting deeply in the wood with a scribe or sharp knife. Lot 

 numbers were marked in "Arabic" and the concession numbers in "Roman" 

 together with the letters "CON." Nine Iron Posts of the standard pattern 

 were also planted, one at each of the points indicated on my plan by the letters 

 "LP." At each lot corner post, one or more "Bearing Trees" were marked 

 where trees were available. These were blazed conspicuously and carved with 

 the letters "B.T." The distances and astronomical bearings were taken from 

 the centre of each post to the centre of the blaze on the respective trees. A 

 detailed record of posts planted and Bearing Trees marked is to be found in 

 my field notes of the survey. Owing to frost in the ground under the heavy 

 moss, much difficulty was experienced in planting the posts firmly, however, 

 after adding an ice-chisel to the field equipment this difficulty was overcome. 



