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Appendix No. 19. 

 SuEVEY OF Township Outlines in the District of Kenora. 



North Bay, Ont., September 34th, 1913. 



Sir, — We beg to advise the completion of the survey of certain township out- 

 lines performed under instructions from your Department bearing date of July 

 17th, 1913, and to submit thereon the following report: 



The survey was commenced, according to the instructions, at the iron post 

 marking the north west angle of Rowell township, from which point No. 2 base 

 line was run west astronomically on 6 mile chords a distance of twenty-four miles. 

 From the 6 mile post on this base Hne, our No, 1 meridian was run south astrono- 

 mically to Eosamond lake, and triangulated connections were there made with the 

 posts planted by O.L.S. MacDougall in the survey of the township of Rugby, to 

 mark the extremities of the west and north boundaries of that township. We find, 

 that had these two lines been produced, they would have intersected on the main- 

 land, instead of in Rosamond lake as was shown on Ruby township plan. These 

 triangulations are reduced and the connections illustrated in the field notes. 



No. 2 meridian was run south astronomically from the 12 mile post on No. 2 

 base line, to the intersection with the north boundary of the township of Mutrie. 

 From the 6 mile post on this meridian No. 1 base line was run east astronomically 

 on a six mile chord to an intersection with No. 1 meridian, and run west astrono- 

 mically in a similar manner to an intersection with No. 3 meridian. 



From the 18 mile post on No. 2 base line our No. 3 meridian was run south 

 astronomically to an intersection with the north boundary of Wabigoon township;, 

 and from the 24 mile post on No. 2 base line, which point occurs on an island in 

 Clay lake, our No. 4 meridian was run south astronomically to an intersection with 

 the north boundary of Smellie township. 



Iron posts, properly marked with a cold chisel, were planted a,t intervals of 3' 

 miles along our lines, while 6 inch posts of spruce or jack pine at intervals of 1 mile; 

 and 4 inch posts of spruce or jack pine at intervals of half a mile were suitably 

 scribed and planted. Wherever possible these posts were mounded with stones and 

 bearing trees marked and noted. Some few extra posts were planted at irregular 

 chainages, to mark the intersection of our lines with shore lines the same being 

 properly recorded in the notes. Frequent astronomic observations for azimuth were 

 taken and are recorded in the notes, numerous magnetic observations were also made 

 from which latter the magnetic variation was found to average N. 10 degrees E. 



General Features. 



A very large percentage of the area embraced by this survey is very barren, 

 rough and rocky, and almost the entire area has been fire swept. In the first 

 instance this has very probably occurred during the construction of the Canadian 

 Pacific Railway and again about six years or so ago. Much of the timber as a result 

 of this former fire has fallen down and is a tangle, thickly up grown with small 

 young jack pine. Small areas of clay of a high quality are mingled with these 

 mountains, but so restricted in area, and so scattered, as to raise the question as to 

 whether community farming would be practicable, excepting in those areas lying 

 adjacent to the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway. Again, restricted areas of good 

 jack pine of a fair size coupled with unrestricted areas of thicket growth of small 



