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in view. The contact between the diorite and granite is in concession 8, Samples 

 of rock taken at various places are forwarded with this report. 



Accompanying this report are the plans and field notes, also my account in 

 triplicate. 



I have the honour to be. Sir, 



Your obedient servant, 



(Signed) J. Richard Gill, 



Ontario Land Surveyor. 



The Honourable the Minister of Lands, Forests and Mines, 

 Toronto, Ont. 



Appendix No. 27. 

 Survey of the TovrNSiiiP of Shetland, District of Algoma. 



Little Current, Ont., December 1st, 1913. 



Sir, — I have the honour to submit to you the following report on the survey 

 of the township of Shetland, in the District of Algoma, performed under instruc- 

 tions from your Department, dated Toronto, July 9th, 1913. 



I proceeded to the work by Cochrane and the National Transcontinental 

 Railway to the crossing of the Missanabie river, thence by canoes up that river 

 and a large creek in the first concession. This creek empties into the Missanabie 

 in the twelfth concession of Orkney. 



I depended on getting Indians at Cochrane for the work as I had arranged, 

 but found on my arrival there that hardly any were to be found. I also learned 

 there that some of those employed on surveys and similar work were receiving 

 90 dollars per month and expenses. I therefore engaged men from the Lake 

 Huron country which made my expenses for transportation unusually heavy. 

 The fare by the contractor's train from Cochrane to the Missanabie River, 110 

 miles, is $5.50 each way. 



All lines were run with either a transit or solar compass. Nearly all the 

 meridian work was done with a transit, and all the concession lines, except the 

 south boundary and the last five lots in each concession, were run with the solar. 



The lines were well opened up and blazed. Iron posts, 1^4 inches in diameter, 

 supplied to me by your Department, were planted as requested at the south-west 

 angle of lots 6 and 18 in concessions 1, 5 and 9, also at the south-east angle of 

 lot 1 in each of concessions 5 and 9, and at the north-west angle of lots 6 and 

 18 in concession 12. There were not enough post? supplied to me to plant them 

 at the other two corners indicated on the projected plan sent with the instructions. 



Durable wooden posts, mostly spruce and cedar, and of required dimensions, 

 5 inches square at the ends of concessions and the intermediate ones, 4 inches 

 square, were planted at the front angles of the lots. On them were marked "R" 

 for road, and the numbers of the adjacent lots and concessions. The iron posts 

 were similarly marked. 



