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Appendix No. 29. 

 Survey of the Township of Malachi, District of Kenoea. 



New Liskeaed, Ontaeio. April 25th, 1914. 



SiE^ — In compliance with instructions from you bearing date of August 13th, 

 1&13, we proceeded with subdivision of Malachi township after completing out- 

 lines of Pelican, Malachi and Kice, and herewith beg to tender our report and 

 accompanying plans and field notes of the same. 



Through some misunderstanding your instructions were not forwarded from 

 Kenora to Malachi as per our request to the party in Kenora with whom we 

 made arrangements; consetjuently we were about ready to leave when we received 

 same. 



We immediately wired our Liskeard office to send first class chainmen, but 

 it was difficult at that time to get all round men on short notice so we only 

 secured one. Our assistant Mr, Gallagher and our Mr. Neelands each had charge 

 of a gang of axmen working from the same camp, and starting from the south 

 and east checked up in the usual manner by blocking off instead of running more 

 than one day without a check. 



We had as rear chainmen a three year S.P.S. man and an Upper Canada 

 graduate now at S.P.S,, while as head chainmen we used two of the most intelligent 

 halfbreeds in our employ. As the country was quite rough in places we found 

 considerable difficulty in getting chainage to check very closely, but we kept an 

 accurate angular check on all intersections. The only line that we consider 

 seriously out is the one between the 3rd and 4th concessions which was swung 

 at the intersection of the 3rd side line and 3rd concession line on account of 

 the chainage being 57 links long, and besides, having come over some rough 

 country. However, we found later on that it would have been better to have 

 depended on angles in preference to chainage, as the country was too rough for 

 very accurate work. Our chainmen took time and care as the two gangs could 

 not keep up to the axmen ; the falling behind was in a measure due to our having 

 several of the lines checked up. The principal errors found were in using shore 

 chainage instead of triangulation points. The odd chainage in the case of the 

 width of two lots which otherwise would have been the even forty chains was 

 due to these mistakes being discovered when copying the notes. 



On account of the north boundary of the township showing longer than the 

 south in the outline work, we decided that the work would come out better to not 

 give the full convergence to the side lines. This accounts for the distances on 

 the north boundary between the side lines and the mile posts, being so nearly 

 the same. 



AA^e found after having chained several of the concession lines across lots 

 1 and 2 that the first mile of the south boundary on -the triangulation across 

 Pelican Pouch lake must be in error. This was checked when traversing Pelican 

 Pouch lake and found correct; the error being in the chainage across the front 

 of Lot 2 in the 1st concession, and this accounts for the width of this lot. 



We endeavored to keep all lines as straight as possible and if any slight change 

 in bearing had to be made, to make same at an intersection. 



All posts are either spruce, jack pine or tamarac or cedar, mounded with 

 stones whenever stone was available — and this was mostly the case. Two bearing 



